Q: Describe the unethical behaviours born out of the 2004-2009 Zimbabwean economic challenges that developed into cultures and suggest how managers can counter them. It is a sad truth that the 2004-2009 Zimbabwean economic challenges led its citizens, companies, service providers and even the government as a whole into taking part in unethical behaviours, which even up to this day are being practised and replenishing no matter how much we try to fight them away. Before dealing with the fundamental
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C H A P T E R 5 Business Ethics and the Legal Environment of Business Learning Objectives After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1. Understand the relationship between ethics and the law and appreciate why it is important to behave ethically. 2. Differentiate between the claims of the different stakeholder groups affected by a company’s actions. 3. Identify the four main sources of business ethics, and describe four rules that can be used to help companies and their employees
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E. Brock Week 4 Assignment: Critiquing Philosophical Approaches to Ethical Decision Making With this assignment everyone is required to evaluate the philosophical approaches for each of the scenarios from Appendix B. Your required to evaluate whether or not the reasoning for the course of action which is listed that makes sense. When evaluating the approaches we are informed to take a course of action that is most ethical, the best reasons for the choice making and the reasons for believing this
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As per the fortune magazine, Apple Inc. was ranked the number one admired company in the ear followed by Google and Berkshire Hathaway. These score is based on the votes of the business people all around. All of these companies have to make sure that their stakeholders are comfortable in view of their long term goals. And to achieve stakeholder’s satisfaction, companies need to secure and gain trust in the companies. This is done by a company’s governance and code of conduct. Every company
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helping others. There were also some unethical choices in my opinion as well. They were being deceiving the whole time by documenting the funding under different categories. 2. I think that there were a few things that Chiquita could have done differently to protect its employees without having to pay the terrorists. They of course had the option to pull its business out of Columbia, which they opted, willing not to do. They also could have pursued help from higher powers, such as the government
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Business Ethics Case Study Peter Paulson's offer to provide the previous case documents to Steven Craig is professionally unethical but morally permissible. In addition, I believe that the offer was not theft but possession by entitlement and permission. His actions are a great example of how professional ethics and morals don't always align in the analysis of a case. Part (1) Peter Paulson's offer although helpful commits the Texas Board of Professional Engineers code. As an expert witness
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Unethical Business Research Conduct The foundation of any research is trust. Professionals, organizations, and the public must be able to trust that research is being reported honestly, accurately, and free from bias. Questionable research misconduct can include poor data management, the failure to share data, questionable data selection methods, inadequate supervision of those conducting the research, and fiscal mismanagement ("Research Misconduct", 2012). Recently a large case of research fraud
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it is an extremely unethical act that can result in negative consequences for the firm later down the road. In Hamilton Wong’s position, we would feel obligated to report all of our hours, as it is our ethical responsibility to behave with integrity in our line of work. Beyond maintaining our own principles, the practice of under-reporting hours violates the rules regarding integrity within the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. In our opinion, the potential short-term benefits of under-reporting
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utilitarianism, because raising prices in the wake of natural disasters would not provide the greatest good for all of those involved in the situation. This all due to the fact that, business owners would greatly benefit from raising the prices due to the fact that they will increase their profitability from the sales of their products, whereas the consumers would be detrimentally impacted by having to pay much more money for goods and services that they need at such a trying time. One also thinks that the
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just 36 months, from 1997 to 2000, advertising efforts concentrated at a youth target audience increased so rapidly that American youth spent more than $24 billion, while their parents spent nearly $200 billion on goods which were directly marketed through child-targeted advertising. Segall (2000) also stated child-targeted advertising accounted for over 50 percent of all financial returns directly related to marketing and advertising. If marketing to children has become unethical, and it has been
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