Social responsibility and managerial ethics You may be wondering, “Why should I care about corporate social responsibility or managerial ethics or whether or not my employees have health care benefits? Aren’t these the types of issues philosophers worry about?” To answer this question, you only need to pick up a recent newspaper or business magazine. Everything from Wall Street trading scandals to accounting frauds at AIG, Lehman Brothers, Enron, Parmalat, Satyam, WorldCom, Tyco, and Global
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Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften Studiengang International Management Fach- Sozial und Methodenkompetenz Bachelor Research Proposal Consumer perceptions of socially responsible consumption: Attitudes among Chinese and German business students- A comparative/ contrastive study * * * Index 1 Title and Initial Statement of Research Question 3 2 Background 3 3 Statement of research objective 6 3.1 Primary research objective 6 3.2 Secondary research objective
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corporate social responsibility the levels go in order of economic responsibilities, legal responsibilities, ethical responsibilities, and finally philanthropic responsibilities. Economic responsibilities is the base of what businesses are made for. The number one goal of a company is to make profit. Without initially making profit, everything else in the pyramid is invalid. After economic responsibilities are established, legal responsibilities come next. This means that the business must be following
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Corporate Social Responsibility* Ülle Übius, Ruth Alas Estonian Business School, Estonia, Tallinn 10114, Lauteri 3 The purpose of this paper is to investigate connections between corporate social responsibility and organizational culture types. The survey was conducted in Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Finnish, German and Slovakian electric-electronic machine, retail store and machine-building enterprises. The main aim of the study is to find connections between corporate social responsibility
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Corporate Social Responsibility for Business The purpose of this recommendation report is to help enterpriser to recognize the importance of corporate social responsibility for the business. There is more intense scrutiny from public toward business since the past thirty years because business caused many problems that are criticized much by public and society such as unacceptable ethical behaviors, deteriorating environment cased by business activities and so on. As a result, a concern of Corporate
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presents a review of current literature on ethical theories as they relate to ethical leadership in the virtual business environment (e-ethics) and virtual project leadership. Ethical theories are reviewed in relation to virtual project management, such as participative management, Theory Y, and its relationship to utilitarianism; Kantian ethics, motivation, and trust; communitarian ethics, ethic of care and egalitarianism; Stakeholder Theory; and the use of political tactics. Challenges to e-ethical
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Multiple Choice 1. The term _____ refers to an individual’s personal beliefs about whether a decision, behavior, or action is right or wrong. a. value b. culture c. ethics d. religion e. expectations (c; easy; p. 119) 2. Fruit juice suppliers in South America rely heavily on _____. a. elderly employees b. child labor c. female workers d. illegal immigrant workers e. none of the above (b; moderate; p. 117)
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Q1 Primary stakeholders are those stakeholders who are directly affected by company’s activities, either positively or negatively. Primary stakeholders always have a close relationship with the company. For example, shareholders, employees, managers, suppliers and customers are in the primary stakeholder group. Secondary stakeholders stand for those who are indirectly affected by company’s operation or project. Secondary stakeholders always play an intermediary role but also have interest related
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Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review XMGT/216 March 5, 2012 Leat Kodua BUSINESS ETHICS ACROSS CULTURES ARTICLE REVIEW Business Ethics Across Cultures This paper will focus on the two articles that I chose to discuss, ‘Business Ethics in Australia and New Zealand1’ and ‘Business Ethics in Japan.” This paper will provide a brief summary of both articles and try to explain some of the primary ethical perspectives of the countries. In the contents of this paper there
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Business Ethics is Essential for the Modern Corporation In order to build a harmonious society, an individual should restrict his or her behavior by a certain moral standard. Similarly, ethics is extremely crucial in the business field. Basically, business ethics are ethical judgments related to what is right or wrong in business practice (Joseph, 2013). Specifically, a corporation should consider the influence of their operation in a society because the decision of a corporation to act ethically
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