... Communication and Ethics impact on my professional life Communication is key. Ethics bar the right from the wrong. Communication keeps the relationship alive. Ethics is what separates man from the animals. These are few key notes to get you ahead in life. But I’m not here to talk to you about that. I’m here to tell you how these two key elements are going to be effective in the unforgiving, unadulterated, living, breathing, never ending battle that is called business and how it will help me make an impact in my professional life. Yes, we all want to be the best speaker in the room. We want to have a fast thinking, fast talking mind and tongue and be the next Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, whomever. But what we sometimes don’t even come to realize is that this group of distinguished, successful gentlemen were not born with this. They had to study, work hard, and get the people to follow their vision by any means necessary. I have learned over the years that there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who will speak and get in trouble because they weren’t and those who do not speak and stay out of trouble because they were most definitely afraid. Where will you go if you just stay quiet, listen to everyone else and follow their rules? When does the ethics kick in when that will be happening in your life? Being ethical is something that is hard to pin down, but I know that if I stay true to my heart and soul...
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...2016 Business and Accounting Ethics- The Only Things That Matter Good morning. It is an honor to be here right now and it seems like just yesterday I was sitting exactly where you all are not ready to leave. First, I would just like to take the time to honor and applaud all the graduates here for a job well done. You all should be very proud of not only what you have accomplished, but also the way you all have represented Auburn University. I want to thank all of you and especially Dean Hardgrave for inviting me to come speak. My name is Carter Mize and I graduated undergrad from Auburn University and then came back and got my masters in accounting here at Auburn as well. I currently work for Ernst and Young in Birmingham, Alabama in the assurance practice. Today I am here to talk about Business and Accounting Ethics, which is an extremely important topic that can sometimes be easily overlooked. You all are about to enter the business world where there will be ethical decisions you guys will have to make everyday that could have a huge impact on your career. I first want to start off by reading the definition of business ethics to kind of lay the groundwork. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations. I kind of want to take a different...
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...university of technology, Sydney, Australia to pursue my master’s degree. As I was always fancied by those amazing technology like machine, automobile, aircraft etc. specially aircraft flying in sky, I always dreamed to learn about how those thing were possible and were working. So to fulfill those dreams I went to India and did bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering. On those four years of study I learnt basic concept about engineering and I found it amazingly interesting and thought of gaining more knowledge about engineering. So here I am today for gaining more knowledge on engineering and fulfill out the curiosity that I got about engineering and technology. I am describing the graduate attributes that I attained and attributes that I want to attain. A. Needs, context and systems Until now I have understood the need of a stakeholder as what they state in project to be done. I have interpreted the need of stakeholder as a result they want from project. While doing bachelor degree I was a part of team which completed a project for Taneja aerospace. The project was to analyze vortex creation on wing tips of mig-21 aircraft and its effect at high angle of attack. There we did created a model of aircraft wing and analyzed it at different angle of attack in wind tunnel and also using software called catia and ansys and then we submitted the output of analysis we carried out. On completion of masters degree I expect to advance my understanding of needs of stakeholder for some project...
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...Personal Nursing Ethics Laurie Stein Grand Canyon University: NRS-437V Ethical Decision Making In Healthcare October 12, 2012 Personal Nursing Ethics Growing up in a rural Midwest farming area in a family of 11 people I learned at an early age how important family and people in the surrounding community were to me. My family and the majority of my small community were devout Catholics. Our social life revolved around church, family and friends. My parents taught myself and my siblings the value of friendship, being kind to your neighbors and respect for others and their property. Sometimes I thought they were almost too strict but did realize later that this discipline provided the basis for what I am today. As I prepared to venture out into the world after graduation I knew I was a “people person” and pursued a degree in medical assisting. As a medical assistant I felt that I was an integral part of the patients’ lives. Providing medical care was important but many of these patients knew they could talk and confide in me about other things whether it was a personal problem or family problem or maybe they just needed someone to listen. It was here that the values that I was taught by my parents became so important. Sometimes I was faced with some ethic decisions in regards to my religion as a medical assistant when having to assist with vasectomies. The rhythm method is the only birth control practice accepted by the Catholic Church. To assist with this procedure...
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...Week 1 |[pi|Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility (May 1 - May 8) | | |[pic]|Help |[p| |c][| | | | | |ic| |pic| | | | | |] | |] | | | | | | | | | | Week 1 Introduction Hi! It's Week 1, and we're set to go. This course is perhaps a little different from the typical MBA course. Rather than studying the internal workings of a business, we shall instead delve into the legal, political, and social cultures of our city, nation, and world and see how these affect everything we do in business. We shall study the gamut of legal concepts, from product liability, to civil rights, to intellectual property rights, to antitrust and consumer protection. Underpinning all of these legal concepts, however, will be two foundational aspects: (a) the ethical issues within, and (b) the "world view" without. Milton Friedman, Immanual Kant, Blanchard and Peale, Laura Nash . . . these are just a few of the names of ethicists and...
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...communication issues with my children, I am writing this paper again and will have to redo all of my presentation. When I started this class, I was stunned because I thought I knew everything I needed about communication. Well as you can guess, I was wrong I have learned quite a bit along this long journey through Introduction to Communication. I am here writing about some of the key points of communication that I have learned and hopefully I will be able to show you that I was able to learn from you and your course. This last week we have been learning about diversity, ethics, technology and mass communication. These four words seem to not have anything in common, right? Well, that is what I thought until I began to read and research all four of these words. I looked all through our Chapters and I had a really hard time finding the best meaning of diversity, so after more research I found the perfect answer. Diversity is the inclusion of individuals, representing more than one national origin, color, religion; a point of difference. Another good example to the meaning of diversity would be variety, or a range of difference. The next word is ethics and my favorite meaning to this is; a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and end of such actions. The third word we leaned about is technology, and I am well aware that everyone knows the meaning...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility - Discussion This week's graded topics relate to the following Terminal Course Objectives (TCOs): A | Given an organizational requirement to conform business practices to both the law and best ethical practices, apply appropriate ethical theories to shape a business decision. | I | Given specified circumstances of a business decision to expand to international markets, determine what international legal requirements or regulatory controls apply. | | Click on the links in the "Topics" section to view the discussion topics. Then, click "Respond" to add your thoughts to the discussion thread. | Topics | Introductions (not graded, but required) | The World Bank Situation (graded) | Ethics and Patent Rights Post 9/11 (graded) | Q & A Forum (not graded) | | The World Bank Situation (graded) | Class, please read Chapter 2, problem 5 from the Jennings text, p. 72. This week, we will discuss the Wolfowitz situation at the World Bank. Consider the questions at the end of the problem as you make comments in the threads this week. What are the ethics here? Was Wolfowitz trying to do the right thing? Does that make a difference ethically? Throughout the week, I will bring in further questions. Be sure to read the lecture and the international ethics article stated in your reading for the week as well. Rather than hitting the "Respond"...
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...Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility - Discussion The World Bank Situation (graded) Class, please read Chapter 2, problem 5 from the Jennings text, p. 72. This week, we will discuss the Wolfowitz situation at the World Bank. Consider the questions at the end of the problem as you make comments in the threads this week. What are the ethics here? Was Wolfowitz trying to do the right thing? Does that make a difference ethically? Throughout the week, I will bring in further questions. Be sure to read the lecture and the international ethics article stated in your reading for the week as well. Responses Response Author Date/Time Wolfowitz and Riza Parvez Rana 4/30/2012 8:06:35 PM Wolfowitz has acknowledged his direct role in the job transfer and pay raise for his longtime companion, who worked in the bank's Middle East department, to avoid supervising her. He has said that he did so only at the direction of the ethics committee. Wolfowitz and Shaha Riza knew what they were doing; it was neither an accident or an oversight, and she was complicit in a raise or series of raises she did not earn legitimately.And does anyone think Wolfowitz and or Riza should be made to repay all her raise money? RE: Wolfowitz and Riza Stephanie Garrigan 5/4/2012 11:15:26 AM By Wolfowitz's disclosure to the board of his relationship with Ms. Riza it did in effect protected Ms. Riza'sfuture whether she was a employee or not. The board then...
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...Ethical Or Unethical? I chose to do my paper on Starbucks because I love their company and get my coffee there every morning of the work week. I was interested in finding out whether the company I was supporting was being ethical to its employees or not. I will research Starbucks and who they get their products from and find out just how ethical of a company they are. Thesis: Starbucks claims that they are very ethical and have won awards for being so ethical. But, are they really as ethical sense day one till present as they claim to be. The question is does Starbucks do all their business from grower to a cup of coffee ethically. I start my paper by telling you, the public; about when Starbucks started business and how many stores around the world they have at this current moment. I will show you how Starbucks tries really hard as a large company to come across to their investors and the public as being an ethical company and how they are fair to all their employees and the farmers that grow their coffee beans. I will show you how they are unethical in the way they treat their farmers. I will also show you how they became known as unethical by the way they treated their unionized workers in Chile. This unfair pay that the Chilean workers were receiving was not a fair wage. Starbucks workers in Chile went on strike and Starbucks hired nonunion workers to replace them which were unethical and Starbucks was fined for doing so. I will provide an interview that I had with a Starbucks...
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...Abbey Smith Exercise # 1 Ethics for Decision Making INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ETHICS The 20th Century, an age of electronics, nuclear fission, daring surgery, wonder drugs, computers, and space travel. Will we, the people of the 20th Century be remembered as having lived in the golden age when man finally stuck his finger into the heavens? Will we be remembered because of our scientific breakthroughs and medical gifts that we have given to man? Will we, indeed, be the century of progress? Do recall, in addition to all of our scientific breakthroughs, 20th Century man must stand responsible for two world wars which were the most destructive in the history of mankind, innumerable police actions, the near extermination of a nation of people, and a century that has been marked by starvation, over-population, deprivation, and extermination. With all of our scientific breakthroughs, with all of our great accomplishments, we must accept the truth that this century will also be remembered as one that cynically denied human values while allowing brutal aggression against human rights. What, then, do you think history will remember? Will we be remembered because of our great technological strides, or will we be remembered as a century filled with turmoil, of war? Though we brag about our technology, it is likely that our grandchildren will look back upon us as we have looked back upon our grandparents. Our rockets, computers, and medical breakthroughs will appear as...
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...My Personal Ethics Statement Dawn Belt University of Phoenix Health Law and Ethics HCS 478 Shavonnie Carthens July 03, 2015 My Personal Ethics Statement Ethics is defined by "the branch of philosophy concerned with evaluating human action", (Wacker Guido, 2010, Chapter 1). I have spent a large amount of time reflecting on ethics as what ethics means to me, as well as, which values are the most important to me and how I live by them. I find ethics to mean who one feels about doing the right thing and accountability. Values are our characteristics that help us to be ethical. During my journey through the Ethical Lens Inventory, I had to ponder over the many stages and encounters throughout my life. I am amazed at how, so many small, and what I thought to be insignificant encounters, I had in my life has made a big impact on my values. The list of all the encounters is too long to provide here in my personal ethics statement. Therefore, this paper will focus on the encounters that have made the most impact on the most important values to me. As I reflect on my years of growing up, I remember my parents trying to teach right from wrong. My father seemed to teach right from wrong by always focusing on my wrongs as I cannot remember learning right from wrong with something that I did or did not do for the good. I was in fourth grade when I collected every student's pencils and kept them at my desk. Taking the pencils were considered stealing, and when my parents found...
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...Who or what is to blame for the work ethic of the new generation? From a glance and without much thought, I would have told you two months ago, that they, the younger generation was to blame. I would have said that the use of technology enables them to work without much thought. The pace of their generation, I assumed, has forgotten about some basic moral principles. As reported by Sheehy in Case 4.6, “there is a whole generation of workers with a frightening new work ethic: contempt for customers, indifference to quality and service, unrealistic expectations about the world of work, and a get-away-with-what-you-can attitude (Barry & Shaw, 2010, p.197).” From my recent studies, I’ve learned a new depth to ethics and morality in business. Can I justify my answer above and place all the blame on the younger generations? I’ve asked myself a few questions. What fundamental moral values are lacking from today’s workplace? What has changed in the work force? How has the way of doing business drastically changed over the past few decades? To get my answers I looked back at my own career and experiences. The most prominent is the differences between generations that are represented in today’s work place. The advancement of technology and the speed in which it’s implemented has drastically changed how we do business now than in past decades. These two differences I feel can easily affect basic fundamental values. What basic fundamental value is used to build great relationships...
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...5/19/13 Toyota Recall: Five Critical Lessons | Business Ethics You are here: Home » Business Ethics, Economy, Featured Story, Michael Connor, Recent Stories, Regulation & Legislation » Toyota Recall: Five Critical Lessons Toyota Recall: Five Critical Lessons Posted by Michael Connor • January 31, 2010 • Printer-friendly by Michael Connor Toyota’s announcement of a technical fix for its sticky gas pedals – which can lead to sudden acceleration problems - is not likely to bring a quick end to the company’s current recall nightmare. Having already halted sales and production of eight of its top-selling cars in the U.S. - and recalled more than 9 million cars worldwide, in two separate recalls – Toyota faces the prospect of billions of dollars in charges and operating losses. The Toyota brand, once almost synonymous with top quality, has taken a heavy hit. While all the facts are not yet in, it’s clear that Toyota’s crisis didn’t emerge full-blown overnight. Fixing the problem and ensuring that something like it doesn’t happen again will require an all-out effort, from assembly line to the boardroom. Even then, there are no guarantees. Maintaining a good corporate reputation in the 21st century is tricky business indeed. Toyota’s case offers a number of valuable lessons for other business people and companies to consider. Here, for starters, are five: Aggressive growth can create unmanageable risk. Toyota’s desire to supplant General Motors as the world’s number-one car-maker...
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...CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS ETHICS?* Stories about “unethical” behavior in business abound. The recent scandals permeating the financial services, savings and loan, and other industries have caused a growing concern about ethics in the workplace. Success often appears to be measured in only dollars. The claim that “greed is good” seems to reflect the behavior of many people in our society. Indeed, the desire to possess more and more seems pervasive—and business, like other institutions, reflects the values, beliefs, and personal goals of our society. Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and countless other magazines and newspapers have called attention to unethical practices, bemoaning the “sleaze, scandals, and hypocrisy”1 undermining our moral bearings. In short, there is a great deal of concern about ethics in general, and business ethics in particular. This reading will examine what ethics is and how people decide what is “right” and “wrong.” The word ethics has a number of meanings. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary gives several definitions of ethics, including: ● the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation ● a set of moral principles or values ● a theory or system of moral values 2 ● the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group. Ethics, in all of these definitions, is concerned with right or wrong behavior. This reading focuses on the discipline or study of ethics. 1. THE DISCIPLINE OF ETHICS This discipline consists...
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...life sometimes, have to bite our tongues, as not to offend anyone, you should also remember that any information obtained is private should be kept private. Never give this information to another tenant or client. Your integrity and the company that you work for is very important. putting the ethics and integrity at risk could cause you to lose your job or even be sued by the person who`s information you talked about or gave out. Making sure that the property is safe for all to live in, and is a safe hazard, free environment for a family to live. Remembering to continue getting education on new ways of providing correct information and knowing what to do in different circumstances. Like all things in life we have ethics and values that we should follow. When working in Property Management you have all kinds of people you must deal with. Conducting the day to day business brings many challenges that we must make choices, Making the ethical choice is easy when you follow the Code of Ethics of the Accredited management organization (AMO). (Symmonds 2012). There are so many areas to cover in Rental apartments and homes that ethics must be followed. I hope to cover the ethical issues that I experienced while working in this area of real-estate. The manager must meet ethical codes addressing financial reporting requirements; the code requires reports to be submitted in time with accurate financial and business data. (Harman 2010). After working in property management for several...
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