The Socially Responsible Oil Company: An Examination of Corporate Ethics by Peter Fischer A Paper Submitted in Fulfillment of the USD School of Law Writing Requirement Energy Law Professor Burleson Spring, 2009 Table of Contents Introduction 2 Background 3 The Need for CSR at Home and Abroad 7 Case Study Analyses: Four Critical Events in the Oil Industry and their Effect on CSR Case Study #1: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 9
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the bottom line. Often times when people talk about CSR or sustainability they are referring to protecting the environment or adopting green practices; although that is part of it, it goes far beyond just looking at ways to conserve the environment. In his book Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line, Andrew Savitz explains that social and economic sustainability are just as important as environmental sustainability. More organizations are looking at the so-called Triple Bottom Line
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Searching the Responsibility Project website I found several videos of importance when it came down to ethical principles and organizational ethics. One video of an organization stood out from the rest. This video represented a company called Greyston Bakery. Greyston Bakery was founded in 1982 by a Zen Buddhist meditation group led by Bernard Tetsugen Glassman, a former aerospace engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold vision. The group borrowed money to open a storefront bakery in the
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issues concerning business and their place within their community. The film explores how external social pressures influenced the organizational ethics of the bakery and its management. These issues have proven relevant to both personal and organizational decision making. The film also presents the viewer with information regarding the relationship between ethics and the law as they pertain to business operation. The short film is about Greyston Bakery which is famous for the brownies it makes and sells
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How Personal Can Ethics Get Dr. L. Blue Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 May 2, 2010 How Personal Can Ethics Get Discuss the ethical concepts and dilemmas that are facing Valerie Valerie Young is challenged with ethical decisions she must make to satisfy her internal standards of excellence. She has the challenge of asking herself what to do with the information learned about the fragrance companies giving kickbacks to Lionel Waters, Valerie’s manager. The challenge being
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Communication Ethics Ethics is the subjects that define the difference between the right and wrong, in terms of business it is 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
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consumers has left Q with a public relations concern and a fiscal uncertainty. It is my opinion that with some simple adjustments and a business acumen that includes a social responsibility ethic, Company Q can adjust its current trend of store closures. Currently Q seems to be heavily focused on supplying bottom line profitability without any sense of responsibility to two of its major stakeholders: its employees and its local consumers. By doing so they creating damage, not only to the stakeholders
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Master of Business Administration Business Ethics assignment Nadine GOUBA Professor: Virginie VIAL January 2016 1. From CSR to CSV The concept of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) emerged in the 1950s. Bowen queried: “What responsibilities to society may businessmen reasonably be expected to assume?” CSR “refers to the obligations of businessmen to pursue those policies, to make those decisions or to follow those lines of action which are desirable in terms of the objectives
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in the company’s general accounting department to capitalize $771 million of expenses into an asset account. In 2000, Yates told Vinson and Troy Normand (manager in general accounting) that Myers and Sullivan wanted them to release $828 million of line accruals into the income statement. Besides that, the internal audit was primarily exist to measure business unit performance and enforce spending controls, whereas the external auditors, Arthur Andersen, was an independent auditors which performed
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Name Course Instructor Date Introduction Communication is a concept that is controversial, especially with the dynamics of the information age. There is confusion on what is right and wrong in communication, creating a never ending debate. Ethics help in providing guidelines for appropriate actions and decisions. Ethical communication allows for one to communicate to the audience the intended message in the right way, without bias. It encompasses honesty, confidentiality where necessary and
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