...used without the tips, with the guidance given later and used for peer assessment or to help students develop their action plans for improvement independently. The key facts and terms at the end of the chapter enable students to develop a summary of the essential points over the course of each module, and they provide a quick, easy reference point and revision resource. Overall the book is extremely well presented and is an enhancement of the first edition while retaining the best features. It should prove a valuable resource for getting to grips with the delivery of the new specification for OCR, while meeting its aim of providing excellent quality content that can be used for the delivery of a business studies curriculum in general. Diane Kutar is subject leader in business studies, at Oakmeeds Community College, Burgess Hill, West Sussex. being conversational. The subject matter is comprehensively covered, with particularly good sections on pricing policy and tactics, and market research. Unfortunately, the reader will arguably find the book somewhat dull. And, perhaps, the lack of colour together with the hugely consistent layout throughout the 208 pages detracts from the interest factor buried within this publication. Consequently, some of the better commentary, such as the section on choosing the channel mix, could be easily missed by the average reader. User-friendliness An undoubted strength of this book is the...
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... Attitude, and Unethical Behavior | Business Research Methods | | | December 11, 2013 | This research paper focuses on the relationship between money, attitude, and unethical behavior. Comparing the data found in regards to gender and major according to a study by Dr. Chen and Dr. Tang. | Introduction Many believe that the success of a business is determined by they amount of money they generate on an annual basis. Because of this widespread belief, we often see a lack of morals, values, and ethics incorporated into the business. Many businesses feel as if there is no room for ethics in the business world and that the relationships built should focus solely on the generation of revenue. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, we can define ethics as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” Every company has a code of ethics in order to determine the company’s culture and values. It also acts a driving force behind any decisions made by top executives. In market where there are so many profit-based businesses, often times we see the many difficulties in balancing the pursuit of profits while staying true to their code of ethics. The balance of ethical practice and profit maximization causes companies to face difficult decisions and many times businesses choose profit maximization. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer transactions require frequent interaction. In every type of business transaction, whether...
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...Business Research Project Ethical Issues Amber Valles Res/351 Business Research Project Ethical Issues Research Project Summary Ethics while carrying out a research should always be observed by the researcher and the study participants. This paper seeks to look at ethical practices that should be observed by the Williams Company as it undertake a business research on the factors that determines the customers buying behaviours of the products that it offers in various different market segments. The company is engaged in the provision of food and beverage products to its customers and it intends to introduce a new product in the market. For purposes of determining the factors that will influence the buying behaviours of the targeted customers, the company marketing departments intend to conduct a field research, where it will sample a group of 500 participants from the targeted market to fill in the study questionnaires. Therefore, while carrying out this business research project the organization marketing research team should observe a number of research ethical issues for purposes of making their project a success. Unethical Practices to be avoided in this research Project A number of unethical practices need to be avoided when undertaking the organization’s business research project. Firstly, the issue of not observing the rights of participants should be avoided by all means (Iltis, 2006). Instead the researchers should ensure that the rights of participants, such...
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...Professionalism Group 3 Final Report EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report Contents Abstract I. Introduction/Background II. Method III. Discussion 1. Bribe or Gifts? Ethical or Unethical? 2. Case Studies and the Scenario Case Study # 1 Case Study # 2 Case Study # 3 3. Limitation IV. Conclusion References EG2401 Engineering Professionalism Group 3 Final Report Abstract Gift receiving has long been a problem in evaluating the ethicality of engineers. In this study, we analyse the ethical boundaries of gift receiving. The foreground for this analysis will be based on several factors, including the value of the gifts and the behaviour (or intention) of engineers after receiving the gifts. These criteria will underpin the discussion for the scenario on whether it is ethical for engineers A, B and C to receive gifts from contractors and suppliers, given that they are involved in the bidding process to select the from the same contractors and suppliers. This report will also evaluate various ethical concerns by comparing the scenario against three different case studies, which will act as the three different extents of moral lines that are set in place. These comparisons would be used to derive a conclusion for the scenario, being that it is unethical for the engineers to accept the gifts given to them. I. Introduction/Background “I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little...
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...Business Research Ethics RES351 January 18, 2013 Business Research Ethics Proper business research is designed to reduce the risk of a management decision. Unfortunately, unethical business research occurs in all types of business circumstances. This type of practice increases risk for the individuals, companies, environments, and technologies involved (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). Several companies within the pharmaceutical industry have been found guilty of unethical practices. Pfizer Inc., one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, allegedly conducted unethical research the led to major disabilities and loss of life for many of the children involved. The development, marketing, and sale of pharmaceutical products are part of a multi-billion dollar industry. When a pharmaceutical company conducts unethical practices, the potential dangers to living things cannot be ignored. Pfizer allegedly conducted an unethical drug study in Nigeria. During a meningitis outbreak, in 1996, Pfizer used an untested drug on 200 children while failing to receive proper consent from their patients. The unethical drug trials led to the deaths of 11 children. The trials also left other children brain damaged, blind, deaf, or paralyzed (Stephens, 2007). The families of the victims affected by the drug study filed a two billion dollar lawsuit against Pfizer. Pfizer was accused of failing to obtain proper parental consent, and using drugs during the study that were unfit for...
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... Topic 1: Business codes are the most effective instrument for preventing unethical behavior in the workplace. Business codes are widely used globally to prevent unethical means in the organization, an increasing number of companies have adopted business code ethics, 52.5% of Fortune Global 200 companies in 2004 (Kaptein, 2004) compared to 87% of Fortune Global 200 companies in 2008 (KPMG, 2008). Business codes are a set of official document disclosed by and for a business firm to guide the behavior of managers and employees (Kaptein and Schwartz, 2008). The business code prescribed are related to matters such as human rights, labor conditions, ecological environment, confidential information, conflict of interests, fraud, corruption, product quality, profits, sexual harassment and competitions (Kaptein, 2011). Business codes ethic (BCE) are the fundamentals for corporate social responsibility (CSR) which are used to appraise companies for ethical performances and citizenship. Organizations with excellent CSR are rewarded with fame and reputations (Patick M., 2011), thus leading to better sales and company’s stock price (Ron Robins, 2011). However, business code and CSR appraisal can only prevent unethical behavior in the organization to a certain extent. For example, 15% of Ernst & Young’s executives were prepared to commit unethical conducts to win businesses even though the company implemented business codes (Christopher M., 2012). In this context, business codes without...
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...Business Research Ethics The individual assignment for this week asked the students to find an article within the University Library that discusses unethical business research conduct that has resulted in individuals or firm being convicted, or at least tried. I have found and read a newspaper journal titled "Unethical workers and illegal acts," which is a study of workers, managers, and executives, where 48% of them admitted to unethical or illegal acts since year 1996. What unethical research behavior is involved? Out for the 1,324 people surveyed, 48% of them admitted to committing unethical or illegal acts from a list of 25 actions. These actions include, cheating on an expense account, paying or accepting kickbacks, discriminating against co-workers, trading sex for sales, secretly forging signatures, and looking the other way when environmental laws are being violated. From the list of 25 actions, these were shockingly the most common mentioned. Who were the parties involved? When one thinks about unethical business research or performance, his or her mind tends to automatically think that the violators are at the lower to entry level of the company's organizational hierarchy, but according to this study, I was amazed at the amount of upper management employees mentioned. From entry-level employees, to long time workers, managers, and even upper level executives, they all have admitted to unethical business research conduct. As I read along I learned that the...
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...preferences Document Viewer TurnitinOriginality Report Processed on: 22-Oct-2012 10:34 PM CDT ID: 278093834 Word Count: 390 Submitted: 1 business research ethicsBy Jere Gossom Similarity Index 0% What's this? Similarity by Source Internet Sources:0% Publications:0% Student Papers:N/A include quotedinclude bibliographyexclude small matchesdownloadrefreshprint mode:show highest matches together show matches one at a time quickview (classic) report Business Research Ethics Jere Gossom RES/351 10/22/2012 Mr. Warlick Business Research Ethics This paper will look to provide documentation of unethical research perpetrated against certain populations of the United States. During the research, promises of free treatment in regards to the study were promised, but were never given. In fact, when the cure was needed it was withheld. In 1932, The United States Public Health Service initiated a 40 year study, in which a series of experiments were conducted on 400 poor African Americans. These men were subjected to the syphilis without knowledge. The participants in the study were never informed of the risks, nor were they informed of the researches design. They were simply told they had “bad blood”. The unethical research behavior involved consisted of; one, not mentioning the risks involved; two, promising free treatment with no plan to do so; and three, lying and telling the gentlemen that they simply had “bad blood”. The injured...
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...Week 6 Learning Team Reflection MGT521 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection Question #2 There are various degrees of unethical behavior ranging from stealing office supplies to embezzling money within your organization. Unethical behavior becomes common practice if this is the organizational culture finds this as an acceptable practice. As in the case of Lehman Brothers, the top level executives demonstrated this type of unethical behavior and encouraged the employees to behave in the same way. Employees quickly realized there are no internal controls in place to prevent them from practicing unethical behavior and ultimately spilled over into their business dealings. Why? The reason is less risk of getting caught for this type of behavior. The company culture at Lehman Brothers was a reward-driven organization, which promoted employees to perform to the highest level and in exchange would be rewarded. One of the risks involved in this approach is that employees will do whatever it takes to continue to perform at that rate for the benefits of reaping the reward. The core values of these employees will eventually reveal themselves and the individual will arrive at a crossroad by either doing what is right or wrong. Moreover, top level management at Lehman Brothers misrepresented information to the stakeholders, such as lying about how much top level management was getting paid, and manipulating the data on reports to hide any wrongdoing of misappropriating funds. In the case...
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...Business Ethics in Leadership Corey C Calhoun Sr. Liberty University 05/03/2016 Business Ethics in Leadership Recent corporate scandals, such as Enron, Parlamat, and WorldCom, have generated significant attention in the field of business ethics. Whereas the interest in this subject pre-dates these scandals, they have undoubtedly raised the profile of ethical concerns in business among scholars, practitioners, and governments (Knights & O’Leary, 2006). Additionally, there is a growing concern on what role leadership plays in perpetuating ethical values in an organization. Consequently, scholars are concerned with discerning leadership qualities that would ensure moral and effective practices in a company. What is the relationship between leadership and ethics? One of the key questions (or in some cases assumptions) in the literature on leadership is regarding the nature of the relationship between leadership and ethics. The definition question in leadership studies is not really about the question ‘‘What is leadership?’’ It is about the question ‘‘What is good leadership?’’ By good, I mean morally good and effective. This is why I think it is fair to say that ethics lies at the heart of leadership studies. Leaders worthy of the name, whether they are university presidents or senators, corporation executives or newspaper editors, school superintendents or governors, contribute to the continuing definition and articulation of the most cherished...
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...------------------------------------------------- ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Student ID:1200407 | Student Name: Howard Mulamba | Course Code: MGT401 | Course Title: Business and Personal Ethics | Instructor Name: Dr. B. Sichone | Essay/Assignment Title: Unethical Business Practices and Solutions to Unethical Practices | Due Date: | Declaration:I understand that by completing this form I am bound by the following:To the best of my knowledge and belief no part of this assignment for the above subject has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made in the text, or has been written for me by another person except where such collaboration has been authorized by the lecturer concerned. H. MulambaSIGNATURE | Instructor’s Comments: GRADE [ ] | In this assignment we are going to look at the effects of poor ethical standards of an organization in the way it deals with the community of the environment in which it operates. And then suggesting solutions in which to the problems that may arise from poor ethical standards of an organization. According to the Business Dictionary, ethics are the basic concepts and fundamental principles of decent human conduct. Ethics includes the study of universal values as the essential equality of all men and women, human or natural rights, and obedience to the law of the...
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...Running Head: BEHAVIOURAL BUSINESS ETHICS Understanding Ethical Behavior and Decision Making in Management: A Behavioural Business Ethics Approach David De Cremer Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University London Business School Rolf van Dick Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Ann Tenbrunsel Notre Dame University, Mendoza College of Business, USA Madan Pillutla London Business School J. Keith Murnighan Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, USA Abstract Management and businesses in general are constantly facing important ethical challenges. In the current special issue, we identify the widespread emergence of unethical decision making and behavior in management as an important topic for a future research agenda. Specifically, we promote the use of a behavioral business ethics approach to better understand when management, leaders and businesses are inclined to act unethically and why this is the case. A behavioral business ethics approach which relies on important insights from psychology should be a necessary addition and complementary to the traditional normative approaches used in business ethics. Understanding Ethical Behavior and Decision Making in Management: A Behavioural Business Ethics Approach The numerous scandals in business such as those at AIG, Tyco, WorldCom, and Enron have raised many concerns about the emergence of unethical and irresponsible behavior in organizations. The seemingly unending...
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...MGT7019 | Stephanie Lyncheski | | | Ethics in Business | Assignment 1 Paper- Ethical perspectives: Friedman vs. Drucker, Murphy | | | ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Running head: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES Assignment 1 - Ethical Perspectives Friedman vs. Drucker, Murphy Northcentral university MGT7019-8 Ethics in Business 05/20/2012 With no clear definition of what business ethics are, it becomes the responsibility of the beholder to discern or reach a plausible conclusion of what constitutes ethical behavior. When looking at business ethics from a global perspective the water only gets muddier. Studies and perspectives on the subject provide no clear definition and when western and eastern social values are added in the mix, the gap between doing what is ethical and doing what is right stretches the abyss even further. Doing what is right for the organization and breaking the law does not warrant unethical behavior but at the same time having a responsibility...
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...and steal,” how true that scenario has become. For the purpose of this paper the author shall attempt to analyze the article “Love of Money and Unethical Behavior Intention: Does an Authentic Supervisor's Personal Integrity and Character (ASPIRE) Make a Difference?,” written by Thomas Li-ping Tang and Hsi Liu (Tang & Liu, 2012). There shall also be an attempt to determine if the examples given determine a love for money or if these were actual survival tactics for a chosen lifestyle. I will also suggest a question that I believe should have been added to the questionnaire. Tan and Liu were attempting to determine the affects the love of money has on ethical decisions when supervisors vary in their ethical lifestyle. 266 part time business employees (students) were given five questionnaires to fill out. This qualitative study also saw them perusing databases doing panel reviews to obtain the same respondent in different phrase of their life. Reflecting on previous studies Tang and Liu specifically review the perception of authentic supervisors’ behavioral integrity and character (ASPIRE) as a moderator of the relationship between people’s love of money (LOM) and their tendency to engage in unethical behavior. People with low ASPIRE and high unethical behavior intentions are considered high LOM. High ASPIRE and low unethical intention people are...
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...Unethical Research Edward Sivick RES/331 June 17, 2013 Professor Tracy Sipma Introduction Business research is an important tool in business. The process includes planning, analyzing, and distributing relevant data, information, and insights to individuals making decisions. Unfortunately, some companies take business research to the next level and participate in unethical research. The following information about unethical research, injured parties, unethical behavior, and how to avoid unethical behavior are based on the article Cigarettes with “Defective Filters Marketed for 40 Years: What Philip Morris Never Told Smokers” (Pauly, 2002). Unethical Research According to the article Phillip Morris a major supplier of cigarettes world-wide has been selling filtered cigarettes for over 40 years with some major issues. While the cigarettes are made in the factory some of the micro filaments in the filter break making fragments. When the consumer goes to smoke the cigarette these fragments release when the individual is puffing. The problem with this is cellulose acetate fragments and carbon particles are released; when this occurs the filter is defective. Phillip Morris was aware of this problem naming it “fall-out” but did not disclose this information to the public and alert consumers that the product may be releasing harmful chemicals that are not normally released. Upon further review of Phillip Morris documents 61 documents containing information regarding fall-out...
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