...1. What are the ethical and legal issues? Kent has design a video game for teenagers that included sex, violence and some forms of nudity. Kent should know this type of video is not suited for teenagers. Brad does not seem to mind marketing this type of game to teenagers as long as his company makes a profit. Kent’s dad should not have encouraged him to continue working on the Lucky project. Although the project would create more jobs it would be at the expense of our teenagers. The game would have legal issues because it involves gambling, which is illegal in some states and definitely illegal for teenagers. There may also be legal issues with selling an American made game to under age children in other countries. 2. What are Kent’s options? Kent can take a moral stand and turn down the new assignment which would probably leave him without a job or demoted. He could also go back to the drawing board and recreate the games according to how Brad would like to sell them. He would still have to consider how the game will affect teenagers in other countries or even on the internet. If he decides to continue working on the project, this would benefit the company’s revenue and bring new jobs for the company. He has to decide what is more important making a profit or taking a moral stand. 3. Discuss the acceptability and commercial use of sex, violence, and gambling in the United States? In the United States sex and violence are a part of most American everyday routine. The videos...
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...1) What are the potential ethical issues faced by Acme Corporation? i. The ethical issue faced by Acme Corporation is that the comapany was facing a decline state in the culture. ii. The ethical issue faced by Acme Corporation was that few mistakes were allowed in the supplies industry because of there competitors. iii. The ethical issue faced by Acme Corporation was not connected to the right buyers. iv. The ethical issue faced by Acme Corporation is not having the knowledge on how to treat their consumers. 2) What should Acme do if there is a desire to make ethics a part of its core organizational values? • Must have means to practice social reponsiblity, while serving customers valuing, their employees and establishing trust with the public. Ethical conduct toward customer builds a strong competitive positon that has been shown to positivey affect business performance and product innovation. Also if generally accepeted that customer satisfaction is one of the most important factors in corporation, then the bussiness would become successful. The corporation must continue to develop and adapt products to keep pace with customers’ changing desires and perferences to develop long term relationships with its customers and stakeholders. 3) Identify the ethical issues of which Frank needs to be aware. • Franks needs to be aware of how to deal with personal moral dilemmas.also able to recognise the relationship between bussiness ethics and personal ethics...
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...BUS220 Ethical Business Challenge Chapter 5 Zyedego faces legal issues by hiring truck drivers such as if the employee has any infractions while on the job, which would cost the company money, the company would be responsible for that and whatever the insurance that covered the employee or company would not be willing to pay, such as in this instant, when there is a natural disaster, and insurance companies are not able to pay full claims. They also face ethical issues from the families of these or the employees themselves if something were to happen to the employee while on the job, whether the work was being required or not, that insurance companies may not be able to cover anything that happened, which could ultimately put that persons family at a great loss as well. Both of these mentioned issues could potentially have lawsuits against the company as well in worse case scenarios. I believe that Peter should recommend to Gwyn that unless she was able to get Dana to provide the correct documents required for her job, that they would try to hold her position until she could, without pay, or give her the option to go ahead and go to work for a competitor and offer her the severance pay. During a time that the company is not able to provide complete coverage if something were to happen to her on the job, and being that she is pregnant, could cost the company more money, especially if the insurance company required for her to prove her citizenship before being able to pay...
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...Christian Lewis- ECPI Unit 1: Resolving Ethical Business Challenges Sunday December 13, 2015 BUS/222 – Dr. Armando Salas-Amaro 1. What are the potential ethical issues faced by Acme Corporation? One of the most important issues that businesses must face are integrity and trust. Conducting business affairs with as much honesty and treating everyone as fairly as possible. In this situation I believe that Frank the salesperson is enticing Otis the buyer with perks to pick their product so that he could get the contract that Acme Corporation had been trying to get for so long. By Frank offering tickets to games or vacations he was able to get that contract. Sure, that seems enticing and it seems like Frank is building a relationship with Otis. However, if you really look at the big picture, Frank is actually using a tactic to bring Otis closer in to close the contract. Frank is not using the product he is making the decision to make the deal sweeter with extra perks. This is not ethical at all to do business this way. Yes you want to make your clients happy but you can make them happy using your company’s values and your company’s mission. It is not ethical to use gifts to get what you want in business. 2. What should Acme do if there is a desire to make ethics a part of its core organizational values? If Acme wants to make ethics a part of its values then they will definitely have to stop offering gifts just to get contracts. I mean you definitely want to make...
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...1: Read ‘Resolving ethical business challenges’ on pp. 4-5 of the Ferrell, Fraedrich and Ferrell (2011) text and answer the following questions. a) Is John faced with an ethical issue or an ethical dilemma? Explain your answer. After read “Resolving ethical business challenges”, John faced with the ethical dilemma. An ethical dilemma is a debate between two moral principles, where two sides can argue about what is wrong or what is right. This is because John borrowed shares and sold them at his firm, BS (the Memphis branch offices of Bull Steins brokerage firm), when the stock falls, John purchased those shares for the lower price and he can pocketed the difference. John’s portfolio had increased a lot after doing this. Therefore he call some of his buddies to do the same thing using money from his big client which he called SHARKS. b) Discuss the unethical behaviour in the case using the four factors on the left of the ethical decision making framework in Figure 5.1 on p. 128 of the text. The model of the ethical decision making process in business includes ethical issue intensity, individual factors, organization factors and opportunity. All of these factors influence the evaluations and intentions behind the decisions perform as ethical or unethical behaviour. Ethical issue intensity can be defined as perceive relevance or importance of an ethical issue of individual, group, and organization. It reflects the ethical sensitivity faces the ethical decision-making...
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...Legal and Ethical Issues Lori Hall LAW/421 December 18, 2012 Corey Frost International Legal and Ethical Issues When one company decides to take legal action against a foreign business partner in another company it is important to not only have an understanding of their local laws but also cultural differences, customs, and language barriers. All of these items could present possible barriers to resolving legal disputes associated with international transactions. Any company doing business abroad must be mindful of the pitfalls of international business, ensuring that the contract entered into is legally enforceable, the contract must protect the company’s interests in the foreign country against all eventualities, knowing that possible disagreements and disputes are common in the international trade arena. This paper will outline the legal, ethical, and cultural issues of doing business abroad. Issues Involved In Resolving Legal Disputes First, business contracts must clearly specify which laws will govern the business decisions that will be made, whether it is American law, local country laws, or popular international convention. One should note that international laws are broad terms establishing a series of customs that countries and businesses agree to adhere to when dealing with each other and that international laws are binding; however, largely based on reciprocal behavior rather than legal sanctions (Melvin, 2011). Some issues involved in resolving legal disputes...
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...OMM640 WEEK: 1 DICUSSION #1 Read “Resolving Ethical Business Challenges” in Chapter 2 of your text, and then address the following points. Support your response with evidence from the text. * What are the ethical and legal issues at stake in the scenario? * What are Karl’s options? * Discuss the acceptability and commercial use of sex, violence, and gambling in the United States. * Is marketing sex, violence, and gambling acceptable in other countries if these things do not conflict with local cultures? A1. The ethical issue is that Kent has made a game that has both a lot of violence and nudity in it. He knows that the game would be marketing sex, violence, and gambling; and he knows that all three are bad to be imbedded into a teenagers mind. When he talks to Brad about these at first he does not understand why Kent has changed his mind about this game that will make the company lots of money. Then some legal issues come into play when Brad decided that he will look into other countries that will like this game and will buy it off of them. Brad said that for Mexican market they would love it but take out a little of the violence and that Taiwanese loves it but wants more graphic in violence and nudity. Q2. What are Kent’s options? A2. Kent’s options are to either stop the development of the game and to change some of the concepts and then remarket it. This could be gone by taking out some of the violence and not putting any nudity in it. His...
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...the managerial capabilities and style of the Manager, Tom Chong; the cultural variations in the perception of business as an entity and its relationships with society, employee attitude to work ethics, and legal variables governing the operations of international corporations. The Malaysian system poses a socio-ethical dilemma especially with the giving and receipts of bribes by appointed employees as well as the exchange of favors (or request thereof) between government officials and businesses (Inkpen, 2010). The legalities of such operational antecedents can have adverse international legal implications from enacted laws such as the UK Bribery Act and US FCPA ("Arnold & Porter Advisory," March 2012) on organizations involved. Analysis Major social, ethical or legal challenges As a foreign company, Jextra faces a host of social, ethical and legal challenges in its operations. The social culture of Malaysia does not have a strict demarcation between business and social relations. Thus, employees like Arif Alam, a Category Manager (CM) of Jextra Store, combine family relations and employment together by enlisting his father-in-law (allegedly) as agent. The collectivist nature of the society also makes the other employees who might have a fair knowledge of the corrupt practices of the CMs reluctant to come forward. The same cultural view that regards business and society as...
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...successful months as country manager, Chong is currently facing two major issues in his role as country manager. The first issue is with the Mayor of Klang (a town located about 30 km west of Malaysia’s capital) who is willing to make it possible for Jextra to expand to Klang if Jextra would finance a new primary school. The second issue has to do with the job performance of Jextra’s top-performing buyer of fruits and vegetables, Arif Alam who maybe taking gifts or accepting bribes which is against the Jextra Business Conduct Code. Chong also suspects Alam of a scheme between Alam and his father-in-law whereas the father-in-law ran a trading agency that potential suppliers would have to go through to “establish contact to Jextra Stores.” • What are the major social, ethical, or legal challenges that Jextra faces in operating in Malaysia? Are these the kind of issues Chong should have anticipated as a country manager? The major social, ethical and legal challenges that Jextra faces while operating in Malaysia include bribery and conflicts of interest. The issues that...
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...case of the Mysterious Roses and the case of the Cold Feet G BioSport find themselves resolving serious dilemmas. This discuss will address decision-making steps, ethical lenses used to make decisions, and ethical lenses that influence decisions. Ethical issues presented in the simulation The Mysterious Roses and the Case of the Cold feet were two simulation that present different issues with different solution. The Mysterious Roses dealt with a sexual harassment incident with Gayle Dornier a worker with G-BioSport. Gayle was receiving roses mysteriously, and she was not in favor of the gesture. The suspect in question is Bill Witherspoon. The issue is that Gayle wants to speak about a confidential matter. Initially advising Gayle that the conversation will be confidential; however, if it consists of work related issue it may have to be reported. To prepare better, Gayle will need to read the handbook before the meeting. The issue surrounding the Case of the Cold Feet is that someone in the company has copied another division work. After a little internal investigation the reports Phillip Waters gave are definitely incorrect. Division Medical Director; Phillips Waters have given false data on an upcoming article on a research study that has been changed and cannot be replicated. The issue is this is a whistle blowing case. Decision-making steps taken to address ethical issues To derive at a decision for the Mysterious Roses, and the Case of...
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...•After reading "Resolving Ethical Business Challenges" (at the end of Chapter 2) on pages 54-55, answer the exercise questions on page 55. •Each answer should be between 100-200 words and supported by evidence in the case and/or ideas from the text or outside research. 1. What are the ethical and legal issues at stake in this scenario? The ethical issues would be not using a woman character to bring in more business. Plus if you have to buy credits to advance to different levels than that is an ethical issue as well. The legal issues would be making sure that the game is up to the right standards for every country that wants to buy the product. Like the internet is ready for the full nudity but only for purchase for adult users only and want it more lifelike. The U.S. market is not ready for the full nudity so that version needs to be toned down a bit so it will sell better. The Mexican market likes it if the violence was toned down a bit. The Taiwanese market wants more graphics in the violence and the nudity areas. 2. What are Karl’s options? Karl’s options to make the company, Bounce, a lot of money by making sure that everyone is aware of all the things that need to be changed for all the different types of markets. If Karl makes all the different changes than the company will be making lots of money due to making the changes to make the customers happy. The changes that need to be made are listed in the first question. This would make sure that no one gets laid off...
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...Addressing International Legal and Ethical Issues LAW/421 Contemporary Business Law Addressing International Legal and Ethical Issues With the increasing globalization of business, organizations are finding themselves in an global environment full of legal and ethical challenges. In some international environments, the very legitimacy of a company doing business in a specific country can be a challenge. International transactions and dispute resolution require both an understanding of the law and sensitivity to foreign culture, formal and information power structures and decision-making approaches. This paper will ethical and legal issues involved in resolving legal disputes in international transactions. From an ethical point of view, an organization seeking to expand globally should first consider whether they should conduct business in countries after researching the specific country’s sociopolitical environment. Corrupt public officials, participating in racial or gender discrimination, polluting the environment or violate the human rights of their citizens through slave or child labor or inhuman working conditions (Trevino & Nelson, 2011) is considered corporate culture in some countries. For example, Foxconn is a multinational electronics contractor for major American, European, and Japanese electronic companies who has been involved in several controversies relating to how it manages employees in China. It is claimed that Foxconn uses underage workers and...
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...Why do ethical dilemmas occur? How do you resolve such dilemmas? Illustrate. Your initial response is due by Thursday. Once you have posted your response, periodically read through the posts of other classmates during the week and comment on at least two. Ethical dilemmas occur in situations when a clear ethical resolution doesn’t exist. Instead of a clear ethical resolution, there is conflict in the decision making process as to what choice creates the more ethical outcome. Resolving an ethical dilemma takes more time and effort to thoroughly examine the situation and all ramifications of either choice of outcome. An example would be an employer at a small business asking his/her Accounts Payable employee to enter suspicious-looking handwritten invoices from an unknown vendor into the system for immediate payment. This is a challenge because the employee doesn’t want to be considered “insubordinate” by their employer, but at the same time the employee knows that something about the invoices and vendor just don’t add up. That situation has two possible outcomes: the invoices are entered and paid, even though the employee knows the action is wrong, or the employee refuses to process the transactions. Neither outcome is a clearly ethical because either the employee may be participating in fraudulent transactions that may hurt the company or the employee has gone against the word of his/her employer. If there isn’t anyone else in the company, besides the employer that...
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...managerial perceptions, attitudes and organizational perspectives. -Top two exogenous risks facing business leaders and policy makers for 2012 and the next decade would be severe income disparity (The unequal distribution of household or individual income across the various participants in the economy) and chronic fiscal imbalances (situation where all of the future debt obligations of a government are different from the future income streams) -Other issues: natural disasters such as 2011 earthquake in Japan, flood in Thailand, Political uncertainty in China and Middle East -Globalization has compounded the types and level of business risks. *Typical challenges that managers face involve politics, cultural differences, global competition, Terrorism and Technology. Managers in companies are struggling to find ways to balance their social responsibilities, their images, and their competitive strategies. -PESTEL- An analytical tool to develop and understanding of exogenous risk -Pestel analysis- Political, Ethical, Social, Technological, Environmental and legal understanding or environmental scanning that is CRITICAL if we are to strategically plan and develop our value proposition. -> Exogenous creates Endogenous RISK SWOT Analysis- an analytical tool that helps you develop an understanding of how exogenous risks influences endogenous risks for the firm The Global Business environment Globalisation- Global competition characterized by networks of international linkages...
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...Resolving Ethical Business Challenge Cassandra Daniels Everest University What are the potential ethical issues faced by Acme corporation? The ethical issues faced by this corporation were “the medical supplies industry competitive nature. This caused a few mistakes to be tolerated.” (Ferrell, O.C., Fraedrich, J. & Ferrell, L. (2013) Business Ethics: Ethical decision making and cases. (9th edition) Mason OH: Cengage). Frank wanted the contract to increase, but he has to first figure out if the inventory is at high standard for the company. If the inventory is good then it is possible for Frank to get his increased contract. They did see that inventory did pick up a good bit. Now they are trying to figure out if Acme is a good fit for them. Frank letting Otis knows that their increase is because of Frank’s quality products. There are personal things given to Otis, which would cause problems for Frank and Acme Corporation in the future. What should Acme do if there is a desire to make ethics a part of its core organizational values? Acme should check and see if all the rules are put out and make sure the personnel get them and understand them. They need to provide a rule for giving gifts to customers. Getting into bribery offer that Otis had for Frank could have been prevented if Frank did not accept it. Being that Frank accepted the offer is going to cause problems in the future between the two. There should be an agreement for everyone to sign which is stating what...
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