...of all ages. People meet and build relationships via social media. Social media forms a powerful tool for marketing a business and help it achieve its own goals. The most powerful of all is the word of mouth from friends in the social media or recommendations and /or like. There are numerous social media sites nowadays including twitter, facebook, Google plus and LinkedIn. This essay will focus on facebook as a tool for marketing a business. Just like any other form of business strategy, use of social media has its own share of legal matters that need to be managed appropriately for the success of a business. Marketing managers of business using the social platform should have a good knowledge base and be able to wisely employ the legal tools in their marketing strategy. Legal astute is a vital requirement for the success of any business either in the social media or not. This is the existence of an effective communication channel between the top management and the counsel to come up effective solutions to problems. It is an important ability of the management that enables a business organization to stay at par with the changing technology and...
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...essential and fundamental matters that are necessary for the criminal justice system to be more than a success. The citizens of the United States need these people who are working within our criminal justice system, and for America’s criminal justice system to uphold the United States laws and uphold America’s constitution as well as be ethical and professional people. In this paper a discussion will take place as well as an analysis of the relationship between ethics and professional behavior in the administration of criminal justice. An explanation will be provided on the role of critical thinking with regard to the relationship of ethics and professional behavior. The paper will include a proposal for a seminar in ethics training for law enforcement officers. In this paper five areas of ethical conduct that will be stressed for the seminar will be chosen. Furthermore, details will be given as to why these areas were chose and what the expected benefits of the training would be for both the officers and the community. When it comes to the administration within our criminal justice system, their ethics and professionalism is defined by their duties and what is expected of them based on the law and the U.S. Constitution. When consideration is taken in regard to their ethics, U.S. citizens would need to base their...
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...How does the rule of law exist independently from the people who make it, interpret it, and live it? The easiest answer to these questions is that, the rule of law cannot ever be entirely separate from the people who make up our government and our society. On the other hand, due to the increasing amount of terrorism thus national security and changes have to be made for a better equality in the development of law. He argued that rule of law has 3 aspects (3 postulates). Firstly, no man can be punished unless there is a breach of law (prevention against retrospective law laws). Second, all is equal under the law. Thirdly, the court are better protectors of human rights. By illustrating the traditional theory come up by A.V. Dicey and his 3 postulates, thus by evaluations made it can be seen that whether the theories in the olden days contradicts to the law in the society today. ‘No man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary court of the land. In this sense the rule of law is contrasted with every system of government based on the exercise by persons in authority of wide, arbitrary, or discretionary powers of constrain.’ Dicey highlighted three aspects of the rule of law. In the first aspect which can be broken down from the quote above is that an individual is only punished for a breach of law. Define as punishment on someone can only be imposed if he/she...
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...In the society, we as citizens of the United States live today has a duty being civil disobedience. It is the meaning of breaking a law that is to believed as immoral or unjust to a fellow citizen. Throughout the years starting from the year of 1848, the idea of civil disobedience has been progressively developing within our nation. This conception has been established by allowing Americans fulfilling their duty of civil disobedience by engaging in amicable protest and armistice demonstrations to perpetuate the injustice that is being provided. Withal, in the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” written by Henry David Thoreau, the author believes that it is the citizen’s duty to practice civil disobedience to demonstrate the unjust laws that are being presented from the government. Thoreau states that the fellow citizens should demonstrate civil disobedience when it “requires you to the...
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...going to work, they should be treated with basic human rights and equal pay. Poverty leads many children to work and in some countries it is the only way for some families to survive. These countries often times do not have the necessary education for children and so it is not depriving them from having a good education. By having children work in these undeveloped countries it is raising per capita income and also the GDP, so one-day children will no longer have to work. Child labor has been apart of almost every society recorded in history. The United States was once a developing country and employed many children, but once the economy became stable enough we passed a Child Labor Law. Therefore, I don’t think that child labor should be outlawed worldwide, but I do think there should be laws against having children work under hazardous, unsafe, and life threatening conditions. When people find out that multinational companies in American are employing many under aged children in Asia to create a cheep product many think of the sweatshop environments and horrible conditions these children are working in; not so much about the young ages. I believe it is unethical for any human being to work in such conditions....
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...the crime. The people who enforce these punishments make up the criminal justice system. Three of the main parts of the criminal justice system are law enforcement, the courts and prisons. Law enforcement includes jobs such as sheriffs and patrol officers.The court system offers careers in law. Correctional facilities and prisons include jobs such as counseling and correctional officers. There are many jobs involved in law enforcement. The sheriff, the highest-ranking officer in law enforcement, oversees the entire department. The sheriff is an elected office that is voted on by the citizens of the county. Once elected a sheriff holds a four year term. After the four-year term a sheriff can be reelected an unlimited amount of times. The sheriff has several duties both in his office and outdoors. These duties include uniformed patrol, crime prevention, and criminal investigations. The sheriff also has some of the duties of a patrol officer such as apprehending violators of the law and assisting in prosecutions. Two basic requirements of a sheriff are that you must be a United States citizen and you must not have any prior felony convictions. In Washington State the average salary for a sheriff is about $4005 per month. A law enforcement or patrol officer maintains law and order in a certain area. People who are interested in becoming a...
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...performance appraisals as well as employee separations. Through the reading of this review the reader will be enabled to understand why exactly these factors must be included within an organization’s policy manual. Employee Rights Within any company policy manual the legal rights of an employee is an essential inclusion. These rights include The Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, The Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Having these such laws within the policy manual of an organization insures that the company is in compliance with all national and state employment laws where it is a necessity to provide each employee with their entitled right. These laws being stated also greatly assists the employees better understand what laws in fact are in place to protect them within the workplace. The policy manual is also a beneficial place to list these laws as both organization and employee can have one select booklet that lists are legal requirements by both parties. The Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964. Title VII of this Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The inclusion of this act is pertinent to both...
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...1: The concept of legal personality could be defined as a person with lawful characteristics and qualities of a natural person. Being a natural person was not always enough to be considered as a ‘legal person’. However, women and slaves had to deal with difficulties with the law considering societies back then had a different view of them being recognized by the law as having legal rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and liabilities under the law. the term and common law idea of "legal person" is to be visible and have a legal standing which, in other means, to be able to attract legal rights and assume legal obligations. If, however, a person was not considered to be recognized by the law, the human being will then be considered as a species of property that can only be bought and sold,(Davies and Naffine at casebook, 26). In that period of time, the subjugated Africans that were brought to America or Europe did not reach a ‘legal status’, hence were not considered as legal persons. As a result of not being granted legal status, they were treated as property to be bought and sold; they did not have control or ‘protection’ of their own lives. This lack of legal status affected their lives over the years; they were “bought and sold, treated as an ordinary merchandise and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion was at that time fixed universal in the civilized portion of the white race.” (Brettle Dawson, 2101T S1_Introduction, Carleton University...
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...Milton Friedman’s America Reviewing the video from Milton Friedman has given quite an insight on how he feels about what America was, what America has become, and what America should be. He focuses his ideas around legal and illegal immigrants and how the laws affect America when dealing with them as a working class. In some sense, the comments that he made were a bit insulting, while on the other hand, the comments were a bit amusing at best. These views are view that I would expect a comedian to address in stand-up than what I would expect a public speaker to verbalize to bluntly. He starts be addressing how immigrants today differ from the immigrants from a few decades ago. He states that in the 40’s the immigrants were welcomed because they came to America looking to work and were willing to take the jobs that no other American wanted. These jobs included agriculture and other labor intensive jobs. He then continued by saying that illegal immigrants were the ones that would take on these jobs, but as states began to legalize immigration, it made possible the ability for immigrants to come to America and become civilian who are able to stay at home and receive a check legally. He is against this because he feels that now immigrants are coming to America legally to get a free check instead of coming to America illegally to earn a living. I don’t believe he is saying to drive immigrant out by making immigration illegal. However, he is saying that illegal immigrants...
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...U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Laws: Small Business During his presidency the 1920’s, President Calvin Coolidge was famously quoted as saying, “After all, the chief business of the American people is business” . Over ninety years later, this quote still has merit. America is a country that was built on small businesses and continues to survive because of them. Small businesses currently employ close to half of American jobs and are responsible for a majority of job creation . Although small businesses must comply with government laws and regulations in order to operate legally in the United States, there are some exceptions to the rule. The Equal Employment Opportunity Committee states that, “Not all employers are covered by the laws we enforce, and not all employees are protected. This can vary depending on the type of employer, the number of employees it has, and the type of discrimination alleged”. More specific to small businesses, “If a complaint against a business (or some other private employer) involves race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability or genetic information, the business is covered by the laws we enforce if it has 15 or more employees who worked for the employer for at least twenty calendar weeks (in this year or last)”. In regards to age discrimination, an employer must have less than 20 employees to be exempt from this law (US EEOC , 2009). The Equal Employment Opportunity...
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...Privacy laws and Policies XCOM / 285 04/08/12 After reviewing the Electronic Reserve Readings for our class and reading the classmates threads, I feel that communication privacy laws and policies are necessary in the work place. In this day and age of electronic communication it is very important for an employer to be aware of what an employee is doing on company time and with company property. As law suits are rampant, it is important for a company to protect itself and its employees. If an employee is sending potential sexually offensive material or just offensive material on company time and company property it is important for a company to be able to monitor and stop this action or be held accountable. In some companies an employer needs to be able to monitor an employee for sharing trade secrets and information that could potential harm or cause a loss in revenue. I however feel that it is of utmost importance for each company to determine how much surveillance is needed, with in the guide lines of the law. As brought out in our reading “The erosion of employee privacy by such practices as electronic monitoring and surveillance, however, comes at a cost in the form of increased stress and decreased employee morale, satisfaction and trust in their organization and management (Hornung 2005; Lee and Kleiner 2003). The Constitution’s fourth amendment also protects against “unreasonable search and seizure.” So with in each company a balance needs to be taken to protect themselves...
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...Macro environment factors are uncontrollable external forces that affect how a business operates. They are largely out of the control of the business, and often require changes in operating, management, production, and marketing. Analysts often categorize them using the acronyms PEST or PESTEL. Broken down, PEST stands for political, economic, social, and technological concerns. PESTEL also includes environmental and legal factors. Political Political macro environment factors include things like tax policies, government-issued safety regulations, the availability of government contracts, and even shifts in the controlling political party. International laws, such as trade agreements and tariffs, may affect the supply and demand chains and available markets for many different companies as well. Economic A market boom, recession, or growing inflation problem can all change the way an organization plans for the future and operates in the present. Economic factors are often difficult to assess, since economic forecasts and analyses vary widely between experts. Unemployment levels, comparative foreign exchange rates, and the state of the global economy can all help or hurt a business' ability to get needed components and maintain a stable profit. Ad Social The mood and demographics of the population make up the social area of macro environmentfactors. For example, a society that places an emphasis on self-guided jobs with room for creativity may cause organizations to redefine...
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...1. Clearly Define the ethical problem. The ethical problem is that there is a security issue in the Communications and Electronics Section of the new unit in which I am assigned, and whether or not I should be honest and report this issue. 2. Employ applicable laws and regulations. To employ applicable laws and regulations I would need to research Army regulations and the unit's local Standard Operating Procedure to determine proper disposal of "Secret" documents. 3. Reflect on the ethical values and their ramifications. There are seven Army values. Some may believe that all seven Army values may not be involved in every ethical problem. In my opinion all seven Army values are in some way involved in every ethical problem. Here is how I believe all seven Army values are involved in this situation. "Loyalty" Would it be disloyal to the unit to not report this security violation? "Duty" Duty is to fulfill my obligations. In this situation my obligation would be to report this violation of security. "Respect" To treat others as they should be treated would be to report this situation. If they made the wrong ethical decision, reporting the violation would be how they should be treated. If they made an honest mistake, reporting the violation would still be how they should be treated and they could learn from the mistake for their future situations. "Selfless Service" To put the welfare of the Nation and the Army above my own would mean to report this situation...
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...The term "family" shall mean and include the appointing authority's spouse, child, parents, siblings to include adopted and step; grandparents and in-laws. The Maryland Public Ethics Law has held in a companion opinion, Md. Code Ann., General Provisions §§ 5-501 - 5-508, that the term "family" shall mean and include the appointing authority's spouse, child, parent, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings to include adopted and step; and in-laws. If HR recommends the Assistant Director's mother for the Substitute Librarian position, it will prohibit the Assistant Direct from authorizing and/or approving the hiring of any family member; therefore, he may recues himself from this hiring board. Analysis of the...
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...far as employment discrimination is concerned. LVN’s business model is as such, where it is crucial for its long-term success to employ mostly energetic female staff, mainly as waiters, bartenders, dealers and DJ operators. On the other hand security is highly important for business functionality, highly experienced personal are required to undertake the task and, should be able to deal with any kind of situations, for these position retired veterans are appropriate. Federal law protects employees from sex and age discrimination outlined in thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. The Civil Rights act of 1991 clearly states that workers are protected from intentional discrimination in all aspects of employment. Title VII EEO prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, where LVN contradicts the law by selective hiring. LVN is protected by unintentional discrimination as the business setting and job specific requirements are job related and permissible by the law. LVN prefers energetic female and experienced male security guard staff for customer attraction. Occupational health and safety (OH&S) is an important legal issue in employment. Because of the line of business and the job role diversity in LVN, Workplace safety is an absolute priority. It undermines productivity and exposes the business to potentially costly lawsuits. There are many laws that pertain to workplace safety. The Department of labor (DOL) administers and enforces the Occupational Safety and Health Act...
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