...Former minor league players who filed a lawsuit claiming Major League Baseball engaged in minimum wage and overtime violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act may feel as if they struck out at the end of a very big game as a federal Magistrate judge in San Francisco sided with the MLB recently when players attempted to have their lawsuits certified as a collective action and class action, respectively. Previously the judge conditionally certified the proposed collection action under the FLSA (as of October 2015). Yet in the latest ruling, the judge granted the MLB’s motion to decertify. The judge also denied the players (Plaintiffs) request to certify their state law wage and hour claims as a class action. Most see the decertification and denial as a major win for the MLB. What Are Collective Actions and Class Actions? They both involve groups of plaintiffs joining together in a lawsuit, but they aren’t exactly the same. The most important difference between the two is that plaintiffs who want to be involved in a collective action may simply opt in to the group. Comparatively, those who would not like to be included in a class action must “opt out” or find themselves bound by the resulting judgment on the case. Plaintiffs in this case allege that the MLB and its clubs were in violation of the FLSA and other, similar, state wage and hour laws. They claim they were paid a total of $3,000-$7,000 over the course of a season lasting five months even though they were working anywhere...
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...Ethical issues regarding the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports In the history of 20th century sports, specifically in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches...
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...Ethics in Sports PH201 Choosing and Using Values April 24, 2012 Competitive sports have a tremendous impact on our culture, influencing the values of millions of participants and spectators. When you look at the definition of sports in the dictionary, it is described as “a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively” ("The American Heritage®," 2003). The fundamental idea of sport is character building, teaching the virtues of dedication, perseverance, endurance and self-discipline. Sports are an important part of life; it can bring people to together. In some cases give people a purpose. This is why it is important that sports are played properly and good ethics and values are shown. It is better to teach this to children, so it’s with them as they grow up. Sports are supposed to help us learn not only from defeat but from victory as well and in team sports we learn the importance of co-competiveness and moral values. This is also true when analyzing sports in real life. People participate in sports for different reasons. Some participate as a recreational thing or a pastime, while others participate in a sport as an industry or a business environment. Sports have been a huge public interest dating back to the gladiator fights and the early ages. The results back then were decided by an emperor, but today we have rules and regulations with umpires,...
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...are three areas where potential ethical misconduct in marketing occurs and they are 1) ethical issues confronted by marketing managers, marketing researchers, advertising personnel, purchasing personnel, field and retail sales person, and retail store managers; 2) consumers perceptions of various marketing practices; and 3) nonbusiness professors and marketing practitioners beliefs about the appropriateness of applying marketing principles to social issues and ideas. Within these different areas, there are several different incidents of abuse that can occur and a few examples are: deceptive advertising, fictitious pricing, incongruence of product quality with personal philosophy, exploitation of consumers and misrepresentation of minority groups. These incidents can be presented in any one of the elements in the marketing mix; product, price, place, and promotion. The areas of marketing abuse that are most evident to me are the issues that are presented in the product, price, and promotion elements. The product element presents issues within the team name, logo, or mascot. The book exemplified the use of Native American names and mascots being found insulting to minority groups which ultimately resulting in several schools changing their names and mascots. The book also provided an example of a logo representing violence in a city that had high crime, so the Washington Bullets changed their name to the Washington Wizards. I think the issue of Native American names and logos’...
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...topic of medical, ethical, and social debate. PED usage by professional athletes has advocates arguing that the negative health consequences reported are grossly exaggerated and they contend that it’s an athlete’s personal decision to accept any potential harmful health hazards. They believe that performance enhancing drug usage is just part of a sport’s natural progression and nothing more than the incorporation of enhanced training approaches and new sport technologies. Additionally, they believe that the use of PED by professional athletes helps them to achieve the highest levels of athletic performance and puts a better product before the public. Opponents of performance enhancing drug use by professional athletes argue that their usage is extremely harmful, and possibly lethal to an athlete’s well-being. Such use makes a professional athlete a fraud, gaining an unfair competitive advantage, violating the competitive spirit of athleticism, and sending an immoral message to youngsters. Opponents further argue that the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes is unethical behavior. PED use is one of the most controversial and talked-about issues in professional sports. The professional sports most impacted are baseball, basketball, and football, which give the PED topic a tremendous amount of visibility and discussion because of the vast popularity and enormous audiences of these sports. There are many arguments on each side of the issue regarding the...
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...Student-Athletes and Responsibility Organizations and society often face issues; therefore, ethical judgment can help determine right from wrong. Ethical principles act as a guide when facing ethical dilemmas and can be helpful in making an organizational or personal decision (Trevino & Nelson, 2007). The Responsibility Project created by Liberty Mutual allows those to seek and discuss doing the right thing. My chosen video clip shows a panel consisting of an agent from the National Basketball Association; a former football player from the National Football League, journalists from the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and the New York Times, and an athletic director discussing responsibility issues in college athletics. Organizational Issues and Social Pressures The issues in this video clip are in regard to student-athlete performance. The panel of speakers evaluates how student athletes focus more on the sport rather than education. The student athlete faces the ethical dilemma of academics versus athletics. In the video clip a speaker also indicates how the student-athlete does not interact with the student body and is so far removed from the academic experience (Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 2011). Although there are opportunities to go to college with an athletic scholarship, controversy follows. Another issue is that athletic scholarships pose as a barrier for college athletes to get an education, which is why there is a debate for revising distribution...
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...Company Name: Hydra Sports Drink Product: Sports Drink Date 26/11/14 1. Introduction: 1.1 Authorisation: This report is prepared as part of the assessment for BSBADV511A Evaluate and recommend advertising media options 1.2 Limitations: The findings of this report are drawn primarily from secondary research due to which in real scenario there are many factory which need to be taken in to consideration while introducing Hydra Sports drink in Australia. Australia has mixed economy by which to develop marketing strategy requires a lot of understanding of the current economic condition by which the rural and urban population are being benefited. 1.3 Background information about the product Hydra sports drink can be very helpful especially for the athletes and enthusiasts who want to try out sports. Most athletes have relied upon sports drink to give them extra stamina so that they can practice all day. The runners are also some of the athletes who take sports drink. They need speed and endurance and they should not tire off easily because they will lose it. Hydra sports drink have been known and proven to increase activity of the body, brain activity, performance and endurance. This will make a person finish a long day's activity without wearing easily. The sports drink must be consumed at the desired dosage; it may be helpful to a person's build up. The only hazard is when a person drinks too much. 2.2 Emerging Market for Hydra Sports drinks Sports drink market is...
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...Jacob Santiago 10/5/15 Ethics of Sport Professor Hager Interpretivisim is what is ethical in a sport should be determined through careful consideration of the best interpretation of a sport; how the sport should be governed, contested in the best possible way. Interpretivism is the way you would look at a game or sport in the best possible way. Also it is the way you would over see thee game from a perfect standpoint. This view on sports is hard to achieve because there are many things that can happen to make the game unfair or uneven. This view will only work in a perfect world and when playing a perfect game. I say this is near impossible to achieve because there are many unethical things that can happen during a contest. For example, in baseball when a pitcher hits a batter and the other team retaliates. That action of retaliation is unethical but in the game of baseball one can argue that it is ethical. Does Interpretivism have the normative power to assist sporting communities with moral issues and issues concerning change? Formalism and conventionalism lack what interpretivism has when it pertains to assisting us with moral issues and issues concerning change in sport. Interpretivism has that ability to change sport and fix the problems that arise in the games/ contest when talking about moral issues. Interpretivism theory has the principles and theories so it makes it possible to see the sport from an appeal to best interpretation of the game. This theory...
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...Ethical Simulation After taking part in the ethics game, a couple of issues were presented which needed to be addressed in me taking part as a Quality Control Manager in the G-Bio Sport Company. Decision making steps were used differently for each issue to have the ability to address the issue in the correct fashion. I used two different ethical perspectives, and two different ethical lenses to make my decisions in this simulation. Even using these perspectives, and lenses my management decisions were not affected or influenced throughout the simulation. This simulation does bring up valid insights in how issues come up in my business. The first of the ethical issues presented in the simulation was a product shipped out to the consumer market by G-Bio Sport was tainted with an elevated amount of GBS-Fibranafren. During the most recent QA testing 100% of the products shipped to consumer markets contains an elevated amount of GBS-Fibranafren. The amounts are far beneath the FDA regulations, but exceed the levels we have permitted internally. The risks to consumers being affected by the product are low, but consumers with compromised immune systems could have a slightly higher risk of reactions with continued use of the product. I know based off of the lab results that 100% of the batch shipped to the consumer market is tainted with GBS-Fibranafren. In the second scenario the issue was to decide whether to sell a product that does not meet U.S. safety requirements in a foreign...
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...Ethical Principles John Durham III PSY/305 March 7, 2016 Dr. Daven Salmi Ethical Principles Introduction The ethical issue that I chose to examine was an article about the relationship between ethical and abusive coaching behaviors and student-athlete well-being. I found this article very interesting because not a lot of people are aware of the ethical issues that have been and are currently going on in the athletic background. Believe it or not there are many ethical issues that relate to psychology in the athletic field. Ethical Issues in Collegiate Athletics One of the biggest ethical issues in collegiate athletics was the abusive behaviors of the coaches to the athletes. This is a big ethical issue because the actions and behavior of the coaches resulted in the players to cheat. When you look at coaches you think of them as the parent of many children on the field or in the gym. The ability of coaches to impact the performance of their athletes is well established (Horn, 2008; Weiss, Smith, & Stuntz, 2008). When a coach instructs an athlete to perform certain actions the first response of the athlete is to do what the coach says. Part of the duty of coach is to prepare athletes for competition through physical training, planning, and instructions; as well as designing strategies and game plans that affect the performance of their athletes and teams during competition. Preparing and motivating athletes to succeed during competition is an important factor...
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...act in the sport college league. How this league creates big amounts of money which is invest in all short of projects rather than take care of the student-athletes. The study case highlight the two main principles issue that the National Collegiate Athletic Association faces; the money how the student are not getting paid and the academic versus sport. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a member-led organization that is in charge of the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes. The NCAA is composed by colleges and universities (1,121), voting athletics conferences (99) and affiliated organizations (39). The NCAA is divided into three different divisions. The subdivisions only apply to football, all the other sports are contemplated as Division 1. The NCAA is a big and famous organization. Since is the organization which manage most of the collegiate sports, it attracts all short of attention from many different groups of individuals such as all kind of sponsors. Although this organization has many lights on it, this do not stop the association to commit unethical practices. Two of the main issues that are face by the NCAA and that are publicly known about is; the money, how the students are not getting paid besides the huge profits this sports and leagues generate, and the other big issue is academic versus sports, the pressure the students have to go through to obtain high GPA at the same time they must have high yield on the sport they are practising...
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...Ethics Game Simulation Jasmine Zeno BUS/216 June 4, 2012 Steven Fletcher Ethics Game Simulation G-Bio Sport is a business that provides their customers with health care enhancements. The ethical issues arise because the product had passed the FDA standards, however it did not pass its own in house standards. It was confirmed that the samples received had traces of contaminant in it. The quality control manager must identify the problems and come up with the best solution to save the business. G-Bio Sport has a very serious problem that cannot be sweep under the rug. The first question is what group of consumers to warn and provide information about the contaminant. G-Bio Sport has learned that the product on the market that is contaminated puts a small percentage of their consumers at risk. G-Bio Sports will need identify those consumers offer them a replacement of the tainted product or refund the purchase price. As the quality control manager the first thing that needs to be addressed is the product that is contaminated. The quality control manager also needs to provide their consumers that are at risk with the information on the increase risk of using their product. This allows the consumer to make their own choices on rather to use the product or not. Consumers have the right to know that if a product they are using will cause the harm. Businesses have to remember that their customers keep them in business by buying their product. The quality control manager...
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...Table of Contents Case 1 Petrobras 3 Case 2 Mattel Toxic Toys – Dangerous Play 3 Case 3 Discrimination in sports – «Williams Brothers» 5 References 5 Introduction In this essay I want to analyse three cases, connected with unethical behaviour in Business. First two cases cover company-wide wrongdoings in big and well-known companies, as Petrobras and Mattel. And the third one is individual-wide case about gender discrimination in sport. Thus, according to these three cases, importance of ethics consideration in any actions will be revealed. Case 1 Petrobras Short summary: Ethical considerations/issues: Dilemmas of the decision-maker: Goals of the decision-maker: Values and interests of stakeholders involved: Stakeholders Values Interests...
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...future of professional sports and the potential for long-term injury. This is especially true when looking at traumatic brain injuries in professional athletes. Health care professionals are facing conflicting obligations in working for professional organizations and athletes. They have the ethical dilemma of whether to try to get the athlete back onto the field as quickly as possible, as long as they are healthy. That being said, with concussions and the recent findings on CTE, the long-term effects of such injuries could be damaging. Thus, it creates a complex dilemma for leagues and health care professionals on how to avoid this issue. This is especially rampant in the NFL. Although there have been some changes in concussion protocol, helmet-to-helmet hits, the moving of kick-offs by five yards to reduce concussions in the league, protection of defenseless receivers, and others, players still constantly are affected by unavoidable injuries. There is a huge dilemma at play as the NFL and players are making tons of money every year. It is very difficult for athletes to retire to avoid such injuries, as the game that they play may be the only thing that they know. It may well very be their only stable source of income as...
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...is one of America’s greatest sports and entertainment. The biggest sports and entertainment company, globally, is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Wrestling is the oldest known sport in the world. I would not call WWE or any of today’s pro wrestling a sport. It has gotten away from actual competition and concentrating on the story telling aspect and has become a soap opera. The cultural issue within the global organization that affects this organization’s interactions outside the United States is female wrestlers. It is unethical and has always been unethical in the eyes of society to have women in the ring. Yes, it does sell in the entertainment business, but young children watch the good guys fight the bad guys and then the half-naked females come out and roll around on the mat and show off their skimpy outfits. As with the United States, other countries have issues with women wrestlers. Some cultures across the globe would not allow their women to do that. It is always WWE or other wrestling organizations who promotes their own women wrestlers while that company is on tour in other countries. The women from other countries, such as Iraq would not let their women embarrass themselves because it would disrespect their women to entertain in such a way. There are female amateur wrestlers in Iraq, India and globally because there is competition and it is a sport. It is the exploitation of the sexuality with the women where the ethical issues lie. I would not want my child...
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