a person as a means to an end‚ which therefore violates the categorical imperative. Therefore‚ the doctor would not be morally justified in killing the patient. The ethical philosophy of Kantianism can be directly applied to the Volkswagen (VW) scandal case study. When referring
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Duke ’s MBAs Cheating Scandal While students are overwhelmed with handbooks on plagiarism‚ school honor codes when they entering a university‚ cheatings are rampantly detected in university environment. Admittedly‚ plagiarism and cheating should be seriously punished. However‚ there do exist controversial cases where some assert that the cases are not considered cheatings‚ the others argue that they should be considered cheatings. An article named "Duke MBAs Fail Ethics Test" by Alison Damast
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I would highly recommend that Penn State create a crisis management plan for future scandals or outbreaks involving the University. While no one could have prepared for the Sandusky scandal‚ having a list of crisis team members and contact information may have kept Paterno from releasing his own statements. Also in creating a plan in advance could help evaluate impact better‚ and take
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The Watergate scandal was the first event that sparked the issue of bribery. It all became public when on June 17‚ 1972‚ burglars were taken into custody in the Watergate building‚ inside the office of the Democratic National Committee. The burglars were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign‚ and they had been caught while trying to take secret documents and wiretap cellular devices. People still don’t know if Nixon was involved or knew of the dilemma before it was brought up
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Assignment 1 – ACC557 – Peregrine Systems Accounting Scandal Heather Glover Strayer University Peregrine Systems‚ Inc. was an enterprise software company that was founded in 1981 and sold enterprise asset management‚ change management‚ and ITIL-based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003‚ Peregrine was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005.HP now markets the Peregrine products as part of its IT Service Management solutions‚ within the HP Software
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The Abu Ghraib prison scandal shocked the whole nation into disbelief that our United State’s army can do such a thing. In Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s‚ The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism‚ explains the rough conditions and new situations these young soldiers were faced. The Abu Graib prison shared many traits needed to make our everyday human beings in to a torturer. But‚ what would it take for me and you to act out such a horrific ordeal? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram created an
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According to its proponents‚ the ‘best practice’ school of thought is the route to organizational success. If that is the case‚ why is ‘best practice’ not standard HR practice within all organizations? Proper management of human resources is a critical variable affecting an organization’s growth‚ competitiveness‚ productivity‚ profitability‚ and survival. The core strength of any organization lies in its human resources because it involves all management decisions and practices that directly affect
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in past years. We all know about the Black Sox Scandal involving “Shoeless” Joe Jackson along with seven other players on the White Sox that threw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. There also has been recent speculation of whether Pete Rose should have his lifetime ban lifted after his actions of gambling while he was a player at the time. Everybody has their own opinion about the situation of Pete Rose and it is the most recent scandal of our time that we can elaborate on (Weinbaum &
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Nike Basketball Shoes: The Best for the Best In 1917‚ Chuck Taylor was the first to introduce the world to a shoe developed specifically for basketball; the Converse All-Star. They were all black‚ with a rubber sole and a canvas body that laced up over the top of the ankle. It’s hard to believe that for the next fifty years this basic design would be renowned as the world best basketball shoe. By the time the 70’s rolled around‚ Converse developed a slightly more modern version of their
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Adelphia Communications Accounting Scandal Description In spring of 2002 Adelphia Communications reported $2.3 billion in off- balance sheet liabilities. The owner John Rigas and his two sons Timothy and Michael are said to have deliberately hid the problems. The family was borrowing/ stealing the money to buy themselves extravagant things such a 6‚000 Christmas trees‚ expensive company cars and luxury homes. The family was also in the process of building their own golf course. This caused
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