Summary I have been requested to evaluate the ethical dilemma surrounding the product offering of Great Lakes Chemical Corporation. The company produces tetraethyl lead (TEL), which is an additive for gasoline. Surmounting studies from the past few decades have proven the extensive harmful effects leaded gasoline has on the environment, which has caused considerable vocal opposition from environmental organizations against the company. The dilemma arises in the fact that TEL is a huge financial
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Case Study Analysis: AccuForm: Ethical Leadership and its Challenges in the Era of Globalization Nicolle R. Waddy AMBA 660 Managing Global Business Professor Dr. Elena Zavialova January 22, 2012 Introduction The ethical environment of a company’s leadership heavily impacts business decisions, and thus impacts the public’s image of the company. These decisions and the process by which they are made will affect the world’s view of the company, and it is important for company’s to understand
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that expands and multiplies processor chips for computers. M-Core delights itself on its innovative technology and is trying to merge more than four processors on one chip. “If successful the processors will provide 10 times the processing power of current high-speed processors that are available on the market, while at the same time eating up less energy.” (University of Phoenix, n.d.) With the purpose of assist M-Core in the fabrication of the innovative processor chips Silatel has bought a research
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Managers’ Ethical Evaluations of Earnings Management and Its Consequences* ERIC N. JOHNSON, University of Wyoming GARY M. FLEISCHMAN, University of Wyoming SEAN VALENTINE, University of North Dakota KENTON B. WALKER, University of Wyoming 1. Introduction and motivation The purpose of this study is to investigate, in an experimental setting, how favorable versus unfavorable organizational consequences influence managerial responses to an employee’s earnings management behavior. We focus on
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Running head: GAP ANALYSIS: HARRISON-KEYES Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes Gap Analysis: Harrison-Keyes This paper will analyze various issues and solutions that Harrison-Keyes (HK) faced as a global print publisher. Their collection of books includes technical and business, scientific and professional and consumer books. Harrison Keyes was established in 1899 and over the last 100 years the company has shifted their focal point on meeting the demands of
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Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values between For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations Monte Mutu PHI 445 – Personal & Organizational Ethics J. R. Ewing July 21, 2003 Our personal needs are meet by our human desires to generate a profit or seek assistance in managing profit. Even though both the Not-for-Profit and For-Profit organizations benefit our social economy by providing financial assistance to various social classes, both types of profit organizations must
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Running head: ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND THE WORKPLACE How Businesses Are Using Technology to Enforce Ethical Behavior in the Workplace: Jonathan R. Jordan Liberty University Abstract Many companies and organizations are finding enviable growth and expansion only by delving into new markets. To accomplish this, companies must seize the advantage of utilizing the latest and most effective technology. With the rapid advancement of technology, the importance of business ethics has increased
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telecommunications boom of the 1990's, now has a plummeting stock price and very nervous board of directors. The future of the company depends on its ability to benchmark and outsource operations while effectively communicating the strategic plan in an ethical way. Like many of their competitors in this volatile industry, profit margin is shrinking, competition is intense, and the whole industry seems to be a losing bet on Wall Street. GC has fallen behind the telecommunication industry. GC feels the
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refereed as the ethical literature of doing business. Ethics has always been a part of our lives, defining our boundaries for deciding whether which side would favor us and which side is the right one. Many ethical philosophers believe that the act of doing right or wrong is totally depended on the situation. Philosophers also believe that ethics is science of conduct that motivates each individual to live under the defined conducts of life. Ethics is not a new subjects, it is from the times of Socrates
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