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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QUESTION : Business and Ethical practices/Issues in International Business and the role of Multinational enterprises (MNEs) Introduction to Business and Ethics The ethical-related issues have represented the foundation of different religions and life styles. Ethics can be found in all aspects of human activity as the individuals have been preoccupied with the quality of their behavior towards the people around. Even if they do not purposefully intend to improve their relations with the others
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A business cannot claim to be ethical firm if it ignores unethical practices by its suppliers – e.g. * Use of child labour and forced labour * Production in sweatshops * Violation of the basic rights of workers * Ignoring health‚ safety and environmental standards An ethical business has to be concerned with the behaviour of all businesses that operate in the supply chain – i.e. * Suppliers * Contractors * Distributors * Sales agents The two articles below
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HR RELATED ETHICAL ISSUES INTRODUCTION: Ethics refers to a system of moral principles - a sense of right and wrong‚ and goodness and badness of actions and the motives and consequences of these actions. In the business‚ businessmen must draw their ideas about what is desirable behavior from the same sources as anybody else would draw. Ethical values channelize the individual energies into pursuits that are benign to others and beneficial to the society. Ethical issues abound in
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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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Business Research Ethics Anonymous RES/351 April 21‚ 2015 Business Research Ethics In response to the public outcry about McDonald’s food products being a link to childhood obesity‚ the food chain launched a qualitative research project. This project named the “listening tour” began at the corporate level and is expected to reach the national and local levels once the corporate program is completed. Ashlee Yingling‚ the manager for the listening tour and McDonald’s US media relations says the program
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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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The ‘Parable of the Sadhu’ discussed how a group hiking up the Himalayan Mountains encountered an ethical dilemma and how their decisions are similar to corporate ethics. This article presents a complex situation in which immediate action was necessary. In briefly‚ a group of multi-national individuals embarked on a trip of a life-time up the mountain. Along their journey up‚ Sadhu‚ an Indian holy man‚ was discovered naked and barely alive by the group of multicultural mountaineers. Each ethnic group
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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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Business Ethics Gender Discrimination The evolving role of women in the workplace is not readily accepted in society. Despite the illegality of gender discrimination‚ women are being discriminated against in hiring practices‚ advancement opportunities‚ and income in the workplace. In the case study given to us‚ we were asked to suggest best possible ways to control or eliminate gender discrimination. To begin with we started to root causes of discrimination‚ most commonly known to us. One of
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