[pic] From: Cheryl Clement To: Anita Paiz RE: Media My favorite prime time television show is The Good Wife . It airs on Sunday nights at 9 pm. The series consist of 7 primary and secondary characters. The ratio of primary and secondary actors are 3 women and 4 men. Of the seven characters, one female is Hispanic. The characters are as follows: 1. Alicia Floreck : is the main female character on the program. I feel she is now a member of the working class and can be stereotyped as a
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7/16/2013 Business Ethics in the workplace is vital to the success of any company whether in regards to the short-run operations or long-term profits. Ethics are about making choices that may not always feel good or seem like they benefit the company. On any occasions you have heard the sayings: don’t hurt, don’t steal, don’t lie, and a popular one do unto others as you would have done to you. These sayings can play a vital role in obtaining ethical values within any company.
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of being immoral or unethical. We consider Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffery Skilling, the former president and CEO of Enron, the driving forces behind Enron’s bogus success and responsible for the moral code that should have been set for the organization. These unethical actions Enron took part in even had support by auditor, Arthur Anderson, and attorneys, Vinson & Elkin. The top leaders of Enron had a passion for capitalism, which drove the company to illegal and unethical behaviors, eventually
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beset by a series of events that ultimately forced it to examine and then retool its business strategy. Since the company was founded in 1888, De Beers followed a strategy of supply control. In addition to mining its own diamonds, it bought diamonds from other producers and had what it called the "central selling organization," controlling some 90% of the world's diamonds. Its tight control over such a vast amount of supply enabled De Beers to keep prices high for a commodity that is neither particularly
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Ethics Keith A. Bates Sr. MGT/498 4 April 2012 Richard Rignall Ethics Ethics and Social Responsibility in Developing a Strategic Plan Ethics are values that guide personal thoughts and actions in knowing right from wrong. Personal conduct and behavior is based on how the individual views unethical behavior. Social responsibility is the company, management, and employees working and conducting themselves by following rules of society. Companies that include ethics and social responsibility into the
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society evaluates as right or wrong, whereas social responsibility is a broader concept that concerns the impact of the entire business’s activities on society. From an ethical perspective, for example, we may be concerned about a health care organization or practitioner overcharging the provincial government for medical services. From a social responsibility perspective,we might be concerned about the impact that this overcharging will have on the ability of the health care system to provide
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set of rules and because of this, unethical situations and decisions arise. The term boiler room refers to an outbound call center where telemarketers use high-pressure sales tactics to sell fake stock (Farlex Inc, 2000). Modern boiler rooms disappeared in the 1990s but they still exist in various forms. With the widespread use of the internet and lack of government regulation on web site creation, a boiler room can set up a website in one country, operate from another and target victims in a third
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utilitarianism is concerned with the balance of pleasure and pain. Therefore, it is concerned with the amounts of pleasure and pain in situations such as abortion. An Act utilitarian will support abortion depending on the situation and if it benefits a higher number of people. Bentham is an Act utilitarian. According to his theory the majority will receive pleasure through the abortion of an unborn. The pregnant women might have conceived the unborn by an accident. If the woman and her family
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decision maker, and the participant. Each has an obligation to the research study and by exhibiting ethical behavior, the data results will determine accurate information that the decision maker can use for their company. If there is a presence of unethical behavior like lying, deception, coercion, not fully being educated or aware of the study details, it can result in the damaging consequences for not only the participants, but it can also affect the shareholders of the company, the customers buying
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the CDC was not actually focused on the welfare of unhealthy Americans, but was instead corrupt and self-serving. This organization was primarily political and secondarily medical. To prevent inhumane research experiments like the Tuskegee Study from occurring on American soil again, the CDC needs to be completely dissolved. The CDC’s main focus is medical research. However, it is redundant for the United States
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