Suitable for students‚ Australian literature comprises of a variety of thought-provoking concepts that challenge readers’ minds‚ as opposed to the simple texts that students are confronted with nowadays. A mythic novel‚ Across the Nightingale Floor is an example of modern literature that most students read these days. A highly praised novel‚ it has received awards such as the German Youth Literature Prize. Written by the pseudonymous Australian author‚ Lian Hearn embraces a contemporary writing style
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Case Study 6.1 Sweatshops Katie White BA 616 Business Ethics Dr. Moore 31 May 2014 Which of your company’s practices can you defend in good conscience? The company can defend moving much of it’s manufacturing plants overseas. For the company this cuts labor costs and provides jobs to those who are in desperate need in other countries. The wages provided to employees is in compliance with the local laws. The employees are satisfied with their wages and the hours they work. There is a large demand
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Ethics Question: Some argue that aggressively investing in emerging economies is not only economically beneficial‚ but also highly ethical because it may potentially lift many people out of poverty. However‚ others caution that in the absence of reasonable hopes of decent profits‚ rushing to emerging economies is reckless. How would you participate in this debate? As a free-market economic skeptic‚ prior to my readings‚ I felt that investing in emerging markets is more self serving and exploitative
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Q # 1: Describe three different roles of a manager; what skills are essential to perform these roles? Answer: Before the studying the roles of the manager we must know that what is manger? “Manager is the one who achieve the goals of the organization through other people”. ROLES OF A MANAGER: There are the three important and essentials roles‚ which manger performs within the organization for achieving the organizational goals‚ in which the first one is; o INTERPERSONAL ROLE: Interpersonal
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Business Ethics – Assignment 1 1. The Sales Rep. A sales representative for a struggling computer supply firm has a chance to close a multimillion-dollar deal for an office system to be installed over a two-year period. The machines for the first delivery are in the company’s warehouse‚ but the remainder would have to be ordered from the manufacturer. Because the manufacturer is having difficulty meeting the heavy demand for the popular model‚ the sales representative is not sure that the subsequent
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1. Describe the need for ethical theories. (3) Ans. Ethical theories represent the grand ideas on which guiding principles are based. They attempt to be coherent and systematic‚ striving to answer the fundamental practical ethical questions: 1.What ought I do? 2. How ought I to live? Ethical theories are needed for a number of purposes. They are the foundations of ethical analysis because they are the viewpoints from which guidance can be obtained along the pathway to a decision. The aim of ethical
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Challenges China has been under the communist party rule for many decades. The communist party exercises absolute power over legislations and economic & cultural institutions. Unlike western economies where the government promotes transparency for doing business; in China rules and regulations are not so transparent or absolute. Large manufacturing businesses can come under various regulations and bureaucracies‚ China promotes a form of social network called guanxiwang‚ where guanxi [10] is the relationship
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DiGi also won the categories for “Best Workplace Practices” and “Culture and Heritage”. The award for “Best Workplace Practices” was given to DiGi for promoting good work-life balance including gender equality and for encouraging social interactions that include the families of the employees. In the category of “Culture and Heritage”‚ companies were judged on the level of support or initiative made to champion preservation of culture and heritage in Malaysia. (Telenor group‚ 2007)
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or ‘right’ answer” (Ghillyer‚ 2008‚ p9). In other words‚ it is difficult to offer a specific answer of whether homosexual relationship should be accepted. For this essay‚ I will utilize Ghillyer’s (2008) three-step process to analyze and solve this ethic problem. 2. Consequences 2.1. Social Exclusion Actually‚ it is difficult to deny that homosexual suffer the social exclusion in the recent world. Silver (2007) defined social exclusion as “a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture
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Outline of the Article Review Please include the following categories in your article review. 1. Full Bibliographic Reference (-3 if missing) 2. Introduction: Objectives‚ Article Domain‚ Audience‚ Journal and Conceptual/Emprical Classification (8) 3. Very Brief Summary (4) 4. Results (8) 5. Class Readings (4) 6. Contributions (8) 7. Foundation (4) 8. Synthesis with Class Materials (12 +8 extra credit) 9. Analysis & Additional Analysis (4 +8 extra credit)
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