Indian Ethos in Management Unit-I Business Ethics: Introduction, Business Ethics and Management, Business Ethics and Moral Obligations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Report of the Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee on Corporate Governance; Role of Media in Ensuring Corporate Governance; Environmental Concerns and Corporations. Ethical Issues related with Advertisement and Marketing; Secular versus Spritual Values in Management, Work Ethics, Stress at Workplace Relevance of Values
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| Navigation through Adaptation | | | | Overview of Organization/Introduction: The organization that I chose to discuss for my final project paper is Goldman Sachs, the renowned American bulge bracket investment bank. In addition to bringing many companies public, Goldman is also a publicly traded financial institution headquartered in New-York city. The company’s main line of business is in helping corporations and government institutions raise capital, providing underwriting
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Summarize the major features of Texas Instruments’ management systems. 2. How does Texas Instruments ensure that its operating managers appropriately allocate their time between short term and long term? 3. Why do you believe the OST System worked so effectively for TI in the 70s? why was not working effectively for company in the mid-to-late 80s? 4. Would systems like these be appropriate in other organizations, such as Harvey-Hudson Electronics? What implementation problems would you foresee
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Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 52-66, 2000 © 2000 Elsevier Science, Inc. ISSN 0090-2616/00/$--see frontmatter PII 50090-2616(00)00005-X When Ethics Collide: Managing Conflicts Across Cultures PAUL F. BUllER JOHN J. KOHLS KENNETH S. ANDERSON Nike-one of the fastest-growing companies in the world-has been stymied recently due in part to consumer reaction to conflicts involving management practices in its suppliers' factories in the Far East. Among the accusations-poor working conditions
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GE 1301- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND HUMAN VALUES UNIT I & II – HUMAN VALUES The Story of a Carpenter An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house- building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss his paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter
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Synopsis: The story opens with Jim McIntoch who is the Vice President of Finance at Amalgamated Forest Products. He is engaged in a heated conversation with Frank who is the manager of Corporate Reporting. Jim is upset because he has been told that Frank is intending to go public regarding a financial analysis report that the company is presenting to legislation and how it has been falsified. Frank is threatening to announce findings about a report entitled: “Endangered Species: The Pulp and
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findings, and suggestions on operational changes. A description of the budget process will be presented to pinpoint variances and their causes. Based on these variances, operational changes will be suggested and explained while considering business ethics. Recommendations on particular component production as well as nonfinancial performance measures will be made and accompanied by supporting evidence. First, the following is a brief overview of the budget and budget process. Budgets are an indicator
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Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Sherris Mundell Dr. Bagher Fardanesh Contemporary Business (508) 03 May 2014 ABSTRACT Since it’s inception in 1977, Apple, Inc. has taken to task, the business of balancing social and ethical responsibility to include the impact of violations on the company. Apple has employed standards for suppliers to adhere to wage and benefits standards developed by its company and made itself a brand of value in the world market through diversity and
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* Ethics is the study of morality * Morality refers to the standards that an individual or group has about what is right/wrong, good/evil. * Business Ethics concentrates on moral standards as they apply to business policies, institutions, and behaviour * Corporate Social Responsibility refers specifically to a description and moral evaluation of the impact than an organization has on society * Ethics can be a business constraint “ethics costs” but also an advantage “ethics pays”
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Governors for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are responsible for establishing the objectives and policies. They select, appoint, support and review the performance of the Chief Executive Officers, approve annual budgets, strategic planning, accounting, ethics and compliance, insuring the availability of adequate financial resources and compliance, and performance of the organizations (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 2010). The middle tier of their operations consists of the Chief Executive
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