...Business Ethics Case Study Peter Paulson's offer to provide the previous case documents to Steven Craig is professionally unethical but morally permissible. In addition, I believe that the offer was not theft but possession by entitlement and permission. His actions are a great example of how professional ethics and morals don't always align in the analysis of a case. Part (1) Peter Paulson's offer although helpful commits the Texas Board of Professional Engineers code. As an expert witness for a previous case against PPC, Peter Paulson was exposed to certain documents which would help with the current case against the same company. The code states in 137.63.c.4 that "The engineer shall not give, offer or promise to pay or deliver, directly or indirectly, any commission, gift, favor, gratuity, benefit, or reward as an inducement to secure any specific engineering work or assignment." In Peter's case he was asked to "secure specific engineering work" for a fee. The practice of sharing the public documents is legal and professionally ethical but when a fee is procured for the transaction the act becomes unethical. The documents in both cases were public because they were documents of court which could be obtained by any lawyer. When Peter placed a fee on documents that were public his actions were in violation of the code and made his offer professionally unethical. Part (II) Table 1. Line drawling of "The Offer" showing non-theft (Peter's perspective) Feature Theft...
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...Tylenol The background In 1982, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) faced a major crisis that had the potential to send the company into financial ruin. Tylenol, the country’s most successful over-the-counter product, with over one hundred million users, was under attack. The crisis Sealed bottles were tampered with and extra-strength Tylenol capsules were replaced with cyanide-laced capsules. These bottles were then resealed and placed on shelves of pharmacies in the Chicago area. Seven people died as a result. Tylenol was called upon to explain why its product was killing people. The solutions The company first learned of the deaths from a local news reporter. A medical examiner had just given a press conference saying people were dying from poisoned Tylenol. Tylenol had to act fast. What did Tylenol do right? It is difficult to imagine how else should have Johnson and Johnson reacted at the time of the crisis except the following ways: • Recalling all the products whether contaminated or not. • Alerting all the customers by all available media including toll-free hotlines. • Appearance of the chairman of the company on the television to publicize the company’s response and action taken by it to combat the emergency. • Making public relations programmes to address the issues and concerns all the internal and external stakeholders. • J&J put customer safety first. – Company Chairman James Burke immediately formed a seven-member strategy...
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...BA 310 Case Study #1 In any business instances whether it be directly dealing with money, or any type of contract or agreement it is imperative to have trust between the two parties. This is to ensure that the process is successful and handled correctly. In the case study Madoff gained an insane amount of investors by promising them they would have a guaranteed return on their investment. Later on, the investors figured out that the money they invested was in fact put towards a fake company resulting in no return on the investment after all. Greed is very apparent in this study as shown all throughout the case. Greed is the obsessive desire to want money far beyond the basic survival and comfort. This definition sums up Madoff and his ill intentions completely. Ponzi schemes are still very prevalent in today’s society. Although the consequences of the scheme are very harsh and scary, the con artist still believe they are able to come out with a better outcome if they follow through with the scheme. Ponzi scheme’s are a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors. Charles Ponzi first introduced the Ponzi scheme to the American public. Simplicity] is the trait that seems to make all of this easier and more gullible to believe. There have been several people that attempted to this act of scheming. Martin Frankel...
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...council members should consider the factors such as demographic of their town and their values however, should similarly weigh in the economic future of the town. Based on the situation in the town’s downtown, if there is no new businesses that start in the town, their economic future does not look promising. Meanwhile, they need to take into the consideration how they can uphold their values too. One resolution is to closely hold new businesses to ethical code developed by the town and require them to have internal code of ethics as well. 3- Since the chair of the planning commission shared her opinion on the restaurant before an application was filed, should she recuse herself from further discussion and abstain when the vote is taken? Due to her position being very clear, it is the logical and ethical choice of her not being involved in this process. She can’t be objective and clearly weigh the advantages versus disadvantages of the proposed new business therefore, it is a better choice to not be involved. 4- If the restaurant is approved, what could be done to repair the rift in the...
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...must “guard and keep the deposit entrusted to him.” (1Timothy 6:20 Amplified Bible) New Gen is rolling out the red carpet to Benji, showering him with gifts to paint a beautiful picture to hang in a house built of cards. He must guard himself, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” (Matthew 7:15 New International Version) When the CEO displayed his blatant lack of morals, having no regards for the feelings of the mother of the crying infant, or when he called those same customers he cared so much about, fat and lazy, this should tell Benji exactly how he feels about people in general not just customers. As Christians we are supposed to show love and Business Ethics Case Study...
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...Case Taken from: Jennings, Marianne Moody. 2008. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. United State of America: Cengage Learning The Finance Club at Harvard University is a prestigious organization for Harvard MBA students. The student members have the opportunity to interact with public officials like Senator William Proxmire and business executives such as Bruce Wasserstein. The Finance Club also serves as a network for job hunting. Each spring, the club holds elections for its officers, including two co-presidents. In the spring of 1992, after initial balloting, there was a tie between two teams of two co-presidents. Murry Gunty was one member of one of the teams and busily recruited students to vote in a run-off election. Two of the students he recruited voted under names of absentee members of the Finance Club. The new votes gave Mr.Gunty his victory. However, two of the votes were from students who were not members of the club, but used someone else’s name to vote.1 After an anonymous tip, the elections were set aside and the runners-up installed as co-presidents. Mr.Gunty was required to write a paper on ethics.2 1 Gilbert Fuchsberg, “Harvard Has Some Crimson Faces Over a Lesson in Practical Politics,” The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1992, B1 2 ”Harvard Student Rigging Election Must Write Paper,” The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 1992, A3 Kasus The Finance Club Universitas Harvard adalah sebuah organisasi yang mempromosikan kegiatan...
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...Case #1 Webb vs. City of Philadelphia This case involves Kimberlie Webb and the City of Philadelphia (mainly the police department). The case was heard by the United States court of appeals, third circuit in 2009. The suit was filed because Webb believed her religious rights were being decimated against. Webb is a Muslim woman who servers on the Philadelphia Police Department. Webb asked permission to wear a headdress that would not cover her face or ears due to her religious beliefs. She was disciplined for failing to comply with Police Department Directive 78 (which basically states that all officers must wear a certain uniform and dress in a certain way in order to appear uniform and unbiased). The Philadelphia Police Department stated that in order to obtain their overall collectiveness could not allow Webb to wear her headdress because it would be obvious what her religious beliefs were and would allow citizens to see that the Police Department is impartial, meaning they could lose the trust and respect of the community. The Judges in this case dismiss the case because for a group of people to be uniform (collectively similar) their cannot be any appearance of religion and that all those who serve must appear neutral to better server the community. Anything to separate identity could be costly when it comes to the overall good of protection. The Judge(s) decide this because if it seems that the police department is partial then citizens may not or will not...
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...growing health center. The center currently employs 100 full time employees and generates approximately $11 million in annual revenue. Revenue comes from state block grants (1/2), Medicaid (1/3) and the balance from county government, insurance, fees and small contracts. The Board of Directors (BoD) is a volunteer board with members from the local community (county commissioner and certified public accountant) as well as individuals with a mental/behavioral health background. The current board members have all served for more than 10 years. The BBDE accounting staff includes a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), controller and several clerks. The controller, Don Blake, had only been with the company three months at the time of the case study. Despite the title of controller, Don spends the majority of his time preparing Medicaid reports instead of focusing on supervising, planning, decision making, and implementing strategy. In Don’s short tenure with the organization, it has been brought to his attention that proper guidelines are not followed for travel expense reimbursements and the Board of Directors are part of the problem with the unethical practices. It is also apparent that the center’s CEO has lost sight of the organization’s mission to provide behavioral health services to individuals in need and is more focused on the benefits to him and his...
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...Mitigation potential of climate-optimal trajectory planning in the North Atlantic Flight corridor Sigrun Matthes1 , Volker Grewe2, Christine Frömming2, Sabine Brinkop2, DLR German Aerospace Center, 82334 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Thierry Champougny3 EUROCONTROL, 1130 Brussels, Belgium Amund O. Sovde4 CICERO, 0349 Oslo, Norway and Emma Irvine5 University of Reading, UK Mitigation of aviation climate impact is one strategic goal spelled out for a durable development of air traffic. Operational measures to identify climate-optimal aircraft trajectories by air traffic management (ATM) are one option to reduce climate impact. We present results from a comprehensive approach for climate-optimized flight planning applied for a case study the North Atlantic Flight corridor (NAFC) performed within the collaborative project REACT4C (Reducing Emissions from Aviation by Changing Trajectories for the benefit of Climate) funded under the European FP7 programme. Ultimate goal was to identify maximum mitigation gain (in climate impact) for a specific investment, hence minimal marginal mitigation costs. For this purpose consecutively those flights trajectories options are selected which offer the highest mitigation potential taking into account five archetypical weather patterns in NAFC, and traffic samples in eastbound and westbound both direction. Using a concept of 4-dimensional climate cost functions integrated into a simulation system for operational planning (SAAM)...
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...programs for the children in the youth. In 2014, Target gave more than 2.5 million on behalf of Target to 69 NGOs in 13 Countries. Target have different carrier fields. They have administration support, advertising and marketing, assets protection of loss items. They have human resources and how the pharmacy. For example, the administration support there are the people that perform variety of administration duties including call screening and meeting and calendar coordination, establishing strong working relationships. Marketing are the people who partner with internal and external teams to develop innovate campaign that shape and brand awareness and drive sales. The roles this team plays they are contribute to suitability strategies managing business risk and safe guarding. Target visitation, I thought the store was great, they’re friendly and enjoyable company. They ask you if you need help with anything. They have a smile on their face when they greet you. They are company that built on working with each other. For example, when i couldn’t find a certain item from the store I ask one of the store employee and she try help me but she couldn’t find so another store employee showed me where it could be located ...
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...Ijoni Ogaga ijoniogaga@yahoo.com 500 university Ave. West. Dakota Hall, Apt. 407. Minot. ND. 58707. Cell: (513) 773-8364 Summary of Qualifications • More than 6years experience in business • Effective at budgeting and supervising • Excellent with follow-up and attention to detail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional Experience Supervision and Training • Organized human resource management workshops for new • Coordinated staff training and professional development workshops • Created customer service training program • Hired new staff and supervised 10 professional staff members Budgeting and Fiscal Management • Administered $50,000 payroll budget more than 3 years • Provided receipt verification for nightly deposits • Maintained fiscal database for accountability • Supervised purchase requisitions and material transfers Marketing and Promotion • Provided positive public relations to customers • Served as a liaison between senior and mid managers Store Manager • Manage store operations by ensuring exceptional performance and excellent customer services • Assist customers in all aspects of store services including handling complaints and inquiries • Train and supervise employees • Ensure banking...
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...Business Ethics: Case Study 2: Starbucks’ Mission: Social Responsibility and Brand Strength 1. Why do you think Starbucks has been so concerned with social responsibility in its overall corporate strategy? Starbucks has been so concerned with social responsibility because of the reduce its Eco-friendly mark and as became tangled with the community. Also it is important to the corporate because of its ethical corporate should improve in the stretched period of time. Consumers’ feels worthy about conveying business to social responsible companies and the organisation’ impression are good about working there and makes organisation provide much better consumer service. 2. Is Starbucks unique in being able to provide a high level of benefits to its employees? Starbucks is irreplaceable in actually able to offer a high level of benefits to its organisation. Many businesses do not deliver organisation with many profits. Starbucks understands how important its organisation is and that they are the face of the corporate. Happy organisation creates good consumer service understandings and repeat business. It seems like a lot of businesses oversee their internal consumer too often. 3. Do you think that Starbucks has grown rapidly because of its ethical and socially responsible activities or because it provides products and an environment that consumer want? Starbucks express growth is exceptional to both its ethical and socially accountable activities and it providing products...
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...Errol A Lane Business Class ethics Describe at least two reasons for studying business ethics * Improve the Reputation of Your Business (One significant practical effect from studying business ethics and applying then to your business is an improvement in the reputation of your business. These things take time, but word of mouth is a powerful force in society, and having friends and neighbors talking about how you treated them right is the best advertising a business can have). In studying business ethics we find a lack of good business ethics what ar you saying when using that word * (Ethics or moral philosophy is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term ethics derives from the Ancient Greek word ἠθικός ethikos, which is derived from the word ἦθος ethos (habit, "custom").) a goof reputation derives form a good business acumen which make for better business ability and reputation. When you learn you do better, you think better and you will be better Become a Better Businessman and Human Being Being (Studying business ethics changes outlooks and influences behavior. Ethics provides a set of terminology and a conceptual framework with which you can think and talk about ethical issues. Studying business ethics will help you weigh the potential consequences of your business decisions, and it will teach you to make moral distinctions and avoid common fallacies...
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...conceptual discussions, case studies, presentation and group assignments. Each group of students will consist of 5-6 students. The assignments / case studies involve library assignments and may be having some small practical studies. The guidelines for the same will be provided in class. Text: The recommended text used for the course is “ Business Ethics and Indian perspective ” by AC Fernando, Pearson VI Impression 2011 . Objective : The objective of the course is to help the students understand the nature of business ethics and issues in corporate governance and its application to the Indian corporate scene. It aims at introducing ethical concepts useful in resolving moral issues in business. It sensitize first year MBA students on ethical principles and developing reasoning and analytical skills needed to build firm foundation and grooming them to apply the ethical concepts to business decisions. The course is specifically planned with a lot of case studies, more specifically Indian scenarios making it relevant for Indian work environment. Sessions cover ethical theories underlying business, application of ethics in day-to-day business, ethics and the environment and ethics in consumer protection. I intend to cover ethical issues in various managerial functions such as finance, human resource and marketing. Evaluation Scheme: Sr. No | Component | Weightage | 1 | Class Participation-Individual | 15% | 2 | assignment-Individual | 15% | 3 | Case Analysis-Group...
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...MBA 6301, Business Ethics Course Syllabus Course Description Explores the role of individual, business, and government activities related to ethically responsible commerce and socially beneficial business activity. Prerequisites None Course Textbook Stanwick, P. A., & Stanwick, S. D. (2014). Understanding business ethics (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Course Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Analyze the concepts of business ethics from a personal and an organizational perspective. Assess the ethical issues facing business leaders. Evaluate and distinguish between the concepts of social responsibility, integrity, and business ethics. Explain the framework required to make ethical decisions in today's business environment and how it improves the business climate. Summarize how moral philosophies, on a corporate and individual level, influence ethical decision-making in business. Analyze the influence of corporate culture, including leadership, power, and motivation, on business ethics in the workplace. Explain the pressures that influence ethical decision making in the organization. Evaluate the need for ethical standards, codes of ethics and practices in business. Assess the auditing process to assure ethical practices are being followed. Analyze the role that culture plays in global business ethics. Credits Upon completion of this course, the students...
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