Chapter 2 Case Study: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 1. What do you think Bill and Melinda Gates’ personality traits are for each of the Big Five Dimensions? Compare the two. Answer: Traits are distinguishing features‚ or characteristics or properties of an individual. The chapter discusses the Big Five Model of Personality traits and uses it as an accepted guide to classify personalities. Both Bill and Melinda Gates possessed various aspects of each category listed within the realm
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CASE STUDY:CHAPTER 1 1. What job would you create? Why? A: The job of Manager in the workplace is to get things done through Employees. To do this Manager should be able to motivate employees. After discussing with my Manager of my Unit about the new position to help in my Department‚ I will create a new position for tracking accounts payable from clients or handling accounts payable to our service providers. If we hire someone then it will be more helpful to our department. We will Develop most
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ETHICS IN MARKETING MINI-CASE STUDIES Read the 4 mini-cases below. For each case answer the following questions: 1. What are the relevant Facts? 2. What are the ethical Issues? 3. Offer your opinion on what actions should be taken. Case Study 1 Incredible Shrinking Potato Chip Package Topic: Cost vs. price vs. value issues Characters: Julie‚ Brand Manager for potato chips at a regional salty snacks manufacturer Dave‚ Marketing Director for the regional salty snacks manufacturer
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Ethics case (a) Who will suffer negative effects if you do not comply with Gena Schmitt’s instructions? Who will suffer if you do comply? The negative effects of not complying with Gena Schmitt’s instructions can be detrimental to all stakeholders of the business. Those include the business‚ the employees‚ customers‚ and the assistant controller since he or she is disobeying a direct order. If the controller does comply with the instructions the controller can be held ethically responsible
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Case Study Presenting a case to a teacher is same as presenting it in front of a jury. You need to have structured and solid arguments to convince the jury (teacher‚ in your case) and prove your point. If you are an excellent lawyer‚ you can even convince the jury that your defendant is not guilty even if he is (not ethical‚ of course). The bottom line is: you need to structure your case analysis. Although every case analysis more or less follows the same pattern; there is a slight variation depending
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ecosystem 2. virtue ethics-aristotle would argue that if you were to kill an animal without morality would be immoral. Using too much compassion or too little. Doing the right thing because it is the right thing. 1st categorical imperative. If that maxim is able to become a universal law. A maxim would be to care for animals 3. Util- it depends on the situation who it makes happy more who is satisfied? Can you do better with your time 2. If John has a day off from work and stays home all day
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I. Introduction (1 page or less) The importance of integrating Gen Y into the work force. HR as a function and stating its objectives‚ role of HR in a company. Every few decades the workforce cycles through generations and receives a new labor batch. Companies are required to adjust to fit their new employee base. However‚ the up and coming Generation Y is the most diverse and different generation to date and requires not only a bit of adjustment‚ but sometimes a completely different process
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What are the critical issues involved in integrating technology into social work practice? One of the critical issues that I see as a concern when integrating technology in social work is the privacy and confidentiality that is shared between teams and networks of an organization. Liégeois and Eneman (2015) discuss how it is important for organizations need to share information in order to provide care to a client through collaboration of a team of a network. Thus‚ it is inevitable that information
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Differentiaors Staging Economic logic IKEA Table 1 Testing the quality of your strategy The emergence ( ) of strategy Developing the strategy Figure 1.2 Strategic planning process leader Ethics in leadership Classical view of ethics profit maximisation Socioeconomic/broader view of ethics Approaches to strategy ) approach Rational ( Ansoff (1965) Module 4) five foruces (Porter 1980) Processual approach Table 1.1 Evolutionary ( ) approach - sony‚ amazon Systemic approach Strategy
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CASE STUDY ANSWER: REAL SALES OR WISHFUL THINKING? What Is the Ethical Issue? In response to pressure from headquarters to make the quarterly sales numbers‚ Marty is going to ask Robert to submit fictitious sales orders. Working from a wheelchair‚ Robert takes longer to call on customers and his sales are generally the lowest in the department. Some in the company believe a person in a wheelchair should not be in warehouse sales‚ and they may use Robert’s lower sales numbers to justify
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