...Portfolio Paper: Business Ethics Business Ethics Introduction Business ethics plays an important role in operation of any organization. It may incorporate the useful application of the ethical conduct in an enterprise setting. Moral actions include not only the ethical compliance through the strict observations of rules and regulations but also setting aside selfish interests and allowing every individual in the workplace to achieve their self-actualization goals. Any ethical organization should foster the existence and practicality of moral behavior within the organizational environment. The association ought also to define certain baseline criteria for measuring the extent of moral behavior and the impact it has on the organization. An ethical-guided organization treats its employees with modesty and fairness. This portfolio paper will focus on the practices that are incorporated by the Philip Morris International (PMI) Company and its efforts to integrate business ethics into the workplace. A lot of companies and corporations have achieved strategic power that is evidenced by economic expansion and the complete access to strategic materials (Forst and Orris, 2002). Other companies have managed attaining the reach of worldwide markets. Most of the large and complex corporations yield mega profits that exceed the economic budgets of many countries, especially developing countries. Such increase in economic power tends to...
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...ISBN 978‐9948‐03‐638‐8 Q uality Congress Middle East 2 Dubai (7-9 April, 2008) Creating an Architecture of Quality and Excellence in the Middle East: Responsibilities, Challenges and Strategies Proceedings of Congress Edited by Najwa Sami Dham & Syed Aziz Anwar e‐TQM College P.O. Box 71400 Dubai United Arab Emirates (1) ISBN 978‐9948‐03‐638‐8 Table of Contents Foreword ___________________________________________________________________ 6 Professor Mohamed Zairi, Chairman, Quality Congress Middle East 2 ______________________ 6 Research Papers ______________________________________________________________ 7 TQM and its Implementation in Higher Education of Iran _________________________ S.A. Siadat _____________________________________________________________________ M. Mokhtaripour _________________________________________________________________ R. Hoveida _____________________________________________________________________ 8 8 8 8 Quality: From Where to Where? ___________________________________________ 12 Alan Brown ___________________________________________________________________ 12 The Impact of Educational Quality Models on Schools’ Performance in Dubai ________ 20 Kalthoom Al Balooshi ____________________________________________________________ 20 Wafi Dawood __________________________________________________________________ 20 Management Education and Development in the United Kingdom _________________...
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...Indholdsfortegnelse 1.0. Indledning 2 1.1. Introduktion, emnevalg og motivation 2 1.2. Problemfelt 2 1.2.1. Formål 2 1.2.2. Problemformulering 3 1.2.3. Hypotese 3 1.3. Afgrænsning 3 1.4. Definitioner 3 1.5. Teori 4 1.6. Metode 7 1.7. Dataindsamling og kildekritik 8 2.0. Baggrundshistorie for The Body Shop og L’Oréal 8 3.0. Analyse 10 3.1. Analyse af The Body Shop og L’Oréal ud fra Ingleharts teori om modernitet og postmodernitet 10 3.2. Analyse af primære data 12 4.0. Diskussion 16 4.1. Etisk mainstreaming i skønhedsbranchen 17 4.2. Brandværdi 20 4.3. Diskussion af hypoteser og deres validitet 21 5.0. Konklusion 24 6.0. Kilder 25 Bilag 1 29 Kerneværdier i moderne og postmoderne virksomheder: et casestudie af L’Oréal og The Body Shop 1.0. Indledning 1.1. Introduktion, emnevalg og motivation Dette projekt omhandler kosmetikgiganten L’Oréals opkøb af den miljøbevidste kæde The Body Shop i 2006. Selvom begge organisationer er specialiseret indenfor pleje- og skønhedsprodukter, virkede opkøbet i manges øjne upassende, da The Body Shop repræsenterer og kæmper for miljømæssige emner, blandt andet afskaffelsen af dyreforsøg, hvorimod L’Oréal er kendt som en af de sidste kosmetikproducenter, der endnu ikke har afskaffet dyreforsøg (Pitman, 2006). På trods af de grundlæggende uoverensstemmelser mellem de to organisationers kerneværdier, er samarbejdet fortsat i næsten et årti, og formålet med dette projekt er at undersøge hvordan forbrugerne...
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...Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, admits that she often finds herself in the kitchen reading soup-can labels—or anything—in order to prolong the moments before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader, and 2. More than anything, you want to communicate those ideas to your reader. These reminders may seem obvious to you, but without a solid commitment to your own opinions as well as to your reader, your prose will be lifeless and boring. If you don’t care about your subject, you can’t very well expect anyone else to. Have confidence that your ideas are worthwhile and that your reader genuinely...
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...by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The thief of time: philosophical essays on procrastination / edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-537668-5 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. Procrastination. I. Andreou, Chrisoula. II. White, Mark D., 1971– BF637.P76T45 2010 128'.4—dc22 2009021750 987654321 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To Mike and Kaemon and Paul and Ree Acknowledgments We owe special thanks to the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature for funding a workshop in New York City in the summer of 2008 for the contributors to gather and share ideas; Jennifer Hornsby and Olav Gjelsvik, the research directors of the Rational Agency section of CSMN, played an integral role in...
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...Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy April 2015 ©Jacques Duchesneau © This thesis may be used within the Department of National Defence but copyright for open publication remains the property of the author. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA COLLÈGE MILITAIRE ROYAL DU CANADA DIVISION OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH DIVISION DES ÉTUDES SUPÉRIEURES ET DE LA RECHERCHE This is to certify that the thesis prepared by / Ceci certifie que la thèse rédigée par JACQUES DUCHESNEAU, C.M., C.Q., C.D. AVIATION TERRORISM Thwarting High-Impact Low-Probability Attacks complies with the Royal Military College of Canada regulations and that it meets the accepted standards of the Graduate School with respect to quality, and, in the case of a doctoral thesis, originality, / satisfait aux règlements du Collège militaire royal du Canada et qu'elle respecte les normes acceptées par la Faculté des études supérieures quant à la qualité et, dans le cas d'une thèse de doctorat, l'originalité, for the degree of / pour le diplôme de PHILOSOPHIÆ DOCTOR IN WAR STUDIES Signed by the final examining committee: / Signé par les membres du comité examinateur de la soutenance de thèse __________________________, Chair / Président __________________________, External Examiner / Examinateur externe __________________________, Main Supervisor / Directeur de thèse principal ____________________________________________________ Approved by the Head of Department: / Approuvé par...
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...Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis For Billy Fitzgerald I can still hear him shouting at me Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking-had he the gold? or the gold him? —John Ruskin, Unto This Last Preface I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? For more than a decade the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport, and widening rapidly. At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million. A decade before, the highest payroll...
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...Indo-U.S. Relations in the Post Cold - War Period (1992-2006) By Debasish Nandi Supervisor : Dr. Abhijit Ghosh October, 2012 Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment to the Ph.D (Arts) Degree in Political Science Department of Political Science, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan, Pin - 713104, West Bengal, India. Content Page No. 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgement I-II III 3. Abbreviations IV-VI 4. Chapter - 1 : Introduction 1-10 5.Chapter - 2 : Indo-U.S. Relations in the Cold War Period 11-41 6.Chapter - 3 : Indo-US Diplomatic Ties in the Post- Cold War Period 42-79 7.Chapter - 4 : Indo-U.S. Economic, Technological and Scientific Co-operation 80-131 8.Chapter - 5 : 9/11 Incident: US Attitude towards Terrorism Vis-à-vis India and Pakistan 132-169 9.Chapter - 6 : India’s Nuclear Links with the USA 170-204 10. Chapter - 7 : Conclusion 205-214 11. Select Bibliography 215-237 Preface Indo-U.S. relations constitute important and influential relations in this world politics. It influences not only the U.S.-Pakistani and the Sino-Indian relations to a great extent; ‘Indo-U.S. relations in the post-Cold War period (1992-2006)’ has been the title of the present dissertation. Beginning against the back ground of the U.S.-Pakistani Arms Assistance Agreement of 1954, the Indo-U.S. relations had witnessed many ups and down in the following years. For example, there had been flourishes...
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...Ethnicity, Identity and Public Policy Critical Perspectives on Multiculturalism David Bromell Institute of Policy Studies Ethnicity, Identity and Public Policy Critical Perspectives on Multiculturalism David Bromell Institute of Policy Studies First printed in 2008 Institute of Policy Studies School of Government Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington © Institute of Policy Studies ISBN 158 IPS/Pub/978-1-877347-26-9 This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced without the permission of the Institute of Policy Studies. Copy editor: Belinda Hill Cover design: Milne Printers Ltd Printed by Milne Printers Ltd Contents List of Tables iv List of Figures iv List of Boxes iv Foreword v Acknowledgments and Disclaimer ix Part One: Introduction and Context of Inquiry 1 Introduction 2 New Zealand Context 3 21 Part Two: Communitarian Responses to Liberalism Introduction to Part Two 61 3 Civic Republicanism: Michael Sandel 63 4 The Politics of Recognition: Charles Taylor 83 Part Three: Multiculturalism Introduction to Part Three 105 5 Multicultural Citizenship: Will Kymlicka 107 6 Common Citizenship in a Multicultural Society: Bhikhu Parekh 151 Part Four: Critical Responses to Multiculturalism ...
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...!" # $ % & ' % ( )* !! %+ $ , -. Herausgeber: Lehrstuhl für ABWL: Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie der Universität Rostock Nerdinger, F. W. (Hrsg.) (2007). Ansätze zur Messung von Unternehmenskultur. Möglichkeiten, Einordnung und Konsequenzen für ein neues Instrument. Arbeitspapiere aus dem Projekt TiM, Nr. 7, Universität Rostock. Universität Rostock - Universitätsdruckerei Prof. Dr. Friedemann W. Nerdinger (friedemann.nerdinger@uni-rostock.de) Universität Rostock Lehrstuhl für ABWL: Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie Ulmenstr. 69 18057 Rostock Kurztitel: Druck: Autor: © Universität Rostock, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für ABWL: Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie, 2007. Hinweis zum Projekt TiM: Das Projekt „TiM – Transfer innovativer Unternehmensmilieus“ ist ein vom BMB+F gefördertes Verbundprojekt und wird begleitet von der Bertelsmann Stiftung und der HansBöckler-Stiftung. Ziel des Projekts ist es, in Kooperation mit neun Unternehmen zu überprüfen, inwieweit Mitarbeiterbeteiligungsinstrumente und eine Kultur der Mitbestimmung bei einem Wandel in Unternehmen hilfreich sind, Anpassungskosten zu minimieren und Innovation zu befördern. Weitere Informationen zum Projekt TiM und Ansprechpartner unter www.projekt-tim.org Das dieser Publikation zugrunde liegende Vorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01HY0347 gefördert...
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