DIRECTOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES Is Legislation in Malaysia sufficient post Enron & Worldcomm? Abstract Directors being pillars of corporate governance (Cowan‚ 2004) should at all times act honestly and use reasonable diligence in the discharge of their duties. This is more so in light of recent major corporate issues like ENRON & Worldcomm in the United States and the Transmile case in Malaysia. In essence directors are agents of the company and as agents‚ they owe a duty of trust to the company
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Sherlock Holmes is a very strange man. He is a detective who can solve a mystery without even seeing what seems to be like too much evidence. His ethics are very interesting. He believes that murder cases turn out to have very complex ways of happening. He does not believe in the solar system‚ which the narrator thought was very weird. His decision to join the case to help was a just decision‚ because without him the case wouldn’t have been solved correctly. Holmes seems to always stick with his
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Have you ever gone to a fast food restaurant and wondered what is really in your cheeseburger? If you knew what was in it‚ there is a good chance you would not want to eat it. The real tragedy is that the American beef industry knows this‚ so they make it difficult for the average person to learn what goes into the production of their beef. But the beef industry is not the only party that is guilty of this. The large corporations who produce our food are all doing the same thing. The morality
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Jacobs Ethics are well-founded standards of right and wrong from one’s point of view. Ethics are also honesty and loyalty. Ethics is not always what society accepts‚ ethics won’t be the same as some one in your religion‚ region‚ work‚ state‚ country‚ not even with the same family. To be ethical you must go buy one’s felling’s of ethics. Charlie Gordon is a adult man with an IQ of 68. Charlie is pursuant about trying to become smarter. Charlie goes to a night school to get smarter‚ but it has very
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While going through this tragedy of being stuck in the snow‚ Charlie‚ Luis and Salvador have come to try and help the Donner Party out of the mountains. When the party gets snowed in‚ the cattle start to be killed for food and soon everyone runs out. This is where people start dying and other begin to talk about feeding off of the bodies. It is said that Luis and Salvador never participated in the act of cannibalism‚ but did that help or hurt them? When traveling in one of the parties that tried
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Henrietta Lacks also know by scientist as He-La. Henrietta was a poor African American woman who became immortal through her cervical cancer cells‚ regardless of all the ethical issues of these cells and how they were obtained in 1951‚ they have helped make incredible scientific advances. He-La cells are still used today for research and many other medical advances and treatments that a majority of us are exposed to‚ one of the main examples would be the polio vaccine. Regardless of all these amazing
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Dress code nowadays is a little ridiculous especially if you are a girl. In this essay‚ I will be explaining to you why I think dress codes are one of the most sexist and hypocritical rules that are in schools. I will address the rules and my opinion on why they are bad or unfair. I’m pretty sure that every school has a dress code‚ some of more easy going than others and some are just plain ridiculous. In my school‚ if a teacher even catches a glimpse at your bra strap‚ then you either have to wear
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Unethical Employee Behaviour Unethical employee behaviour has been something that all employers have been facing for some time now. This has proved to be something that employers have to think about when dealing with these types of employees and it may affect their decisions when hiring as well. Dictionary.com gives the definition of unethical as “lacking moral principles; unwilling to adhere to proper rules of conduct”. There are many ways an employee can display unethical behaviour such as stealing
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The WorldCom fraud that came to light in 2002 was an example of many things that went wrong within the organization. Unethical conduct by its senior leadership beginning with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Ebbers was certainly at the forefront of these problems. The question is should a CEO like Ebbers have been sentenced to prison for his liability in the WorldCom scandal? My answer is yes‚ he should’ve gone to prison as well as other CEOs who engage in unethical conduct
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Hypothesis: Practicing Ethical behavior improves business operations Abstract This paper discusses about how observing ethical behavior in the workplace develops or improves business operations. It delves into the workplace culture and introduces the positive and negative ethical practices that affect its processes. It also points out the research gathered about the codes of conduct and behavioral standards that contribute and further advance the company’s undertaking. Ethical behaviour
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