reputation, and devaluation of company stock if it is a publically traded company. In pursuit of examine my own ethical lens I will analyze the ethical traits of an admired leader, my own traits as exhibited in the Ethical Lens Inventory, and how I make a decision concerning a particular ethical dilemma. Ethical Traits of President Obama My chosen leader for this ethics review is President Barack Obama. President Obama’s two leading exhibited ethical traits are respect and fairness. According to article
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the offeree. Important rules about offers: - (a) Certainty of the offer A contract must contain the basic terms of the relevant transaction. Normally, the following 2 items are needed to form an agreement: - i. Price (e.g. how much is the house that I am going to sell to you?) ii. Property (the seller has to show the buyer the goods or to describe them briefly: Hillas & Co Ltd v Arcos Ltd [1932] All ER Rep 494). * Under the Sale of Goods Ordinance (cap.26 of the Laws of Hong
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consideration which are all part of the basic elements of a contract. The following are the basics elements of the contract, a) Offer b) Acceptance c) Consideration d) Ability to Contract e) Intention to Create Legal Relations f) Certainty g) Free and Genuine Consent 1.2 Types of Contract All types of contracts can be divided into two, which is in the form of bilateral and unilateral contracts. a) Bilateral contract It will happen when made between two or more parties
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to better understand how uncertainty affects inventory decisions. Barry R. Cobb is a professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington. He teaches operations management, managerial economics, and management science. His research in the areas of decision analysis, applied probability, and probabilistic graphical models has been published in such journals as Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and
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may include all raw materials, components and assemblies used in the manufacture of a product; (b) Consumables & Spares -- These may include materials required for maintenance and day-to-day operation; (c) Work in progress -- These are items under various stages of production not yet converted as finished goods; (d) Finished Products -- Finished goods not yet sold or put into use. 13.1.1 Need For Inventory : Many of the items we need for our day-to-day maintenance and operation are required
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A Term Paper Report On DIRECT TAXES CODE (DTC): AN OVERVIEW MEANING AND IMPLICATIONS Submitted by Sharath Kumar USN: 1PB11MBA15 4th MBA: F2/’C’ Section Submitted to Prof. GVM Sharma Associate Professor Department of MBA PES IT, Bangalore DEPARTMENT OF MBA PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANGALORE-570085 (2011-13 Batch) Abstract The Government of India had released the draft Direct Tax Code (‘DTC’) along with a Discussion Paper in August 2009 for public comments
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Management Decision and Research Center November 19-20, 2001 Methodological Issues in Management Research Managers want to make good decisions. Any decisions will, by definition, be made on the basis of some presumed information. Even if a decision were to be made by throwing dice, that process would almost certain stem from “information” indicating that no better basis for the decision could be discerned, e.g., that a randomly determined choice would be likely to be better than a decision open
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Assignment 5: Nike” From Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices” Nia Lawson Diggs Dr. Jack Huddleston Human Resource Management 522 Ethics and Advocacy for HR Pro March 13, 2012 Discern how a more effective ethics programs and a more viable code of conduct could have mitigated the ethical issues faced by Nike Nike leads the world in the manufacturing and distributing of its athletic footwear and accessories. Nike is the brain child of Phil Knight
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An End to Insanity Pine cones thrown at your face, stripped naked and left in a cornfield, and water forced down your throat until you vomit. Do any of these acts sound familiar? They are some of the most familiar forms of hazing. Although hazing is illegal in most states, the actions of cruelty are still being preformed today, it is an enormous problem so why isn’t more action being taken on it. I think it is because a lot of today’s hazing goes unreported either the school which it took place
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I. Industry Context Industry Overview Industry Summary and Outlook Ceramics Engineering-- the industry that Materials Technology Corporation, or "MTC" is a part of-- is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Because ceramics can be manufactured to have unique combinations of strength, weight, thermal and magnetic conductivity, and deformability, they have countless uses in industries such as aerospace, biomedical, automotive, and electrical. With an unlimited number of such combinations
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