Introduction to Business Ethics Objectives: * Gain an understanding of why business ethics is important. * Learn how business ethics fits into the broader discipline of philosophy. * Realize that the culture in which we live influences our thinking. Business ethics, some would say, is an oxymoron. After all, the media presents, on nearly a daily basis, the shenanigans of corporate representatives as they ply their trade. Price fixing, anti-competitive behavior, fraud, deceptive advertising
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Business 4 Unit 4 [pic] Human Resources By the end of this unit you will understand: ❖ The role of the Human Resources Department ❖ The culture of an organisation ❖ Organisational structures ❖ Working practices available to employees within different types of businesses ❖ The recruitment process ❖ Contract of Employment ❖ Appraisal Part 1 – Human Resources The role of the Human Resources Department
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competitive practices to pay employees (Milkovich, Newman, & Gerhart, 2014). Marriott International Inc. is a well-known hospitality company with about 3,800 properties that serves customers around the world. The company has been on the 100 Best Companies to Work For list every year since its creation in 1998. According to CNN money website in 2013 it was ranked number 64. The company is headquartered in Bethesda Maryland. Their 2013 Annual Report has not been published yet, but based on
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Mintzberg distinguish b/w a strategy as 5 P’s:‐ Plan: Forward looking / Purposive deliberate Ploy: Plan Designed to deceive/confuse Pattern: Consistencies of behavior whether intended or not Position: In the market; relative to the Competition Perspective: Values attitudes Cultures of Managers Dimensions of Strategy Process ‐ Analysis Choice Implementation Content ‐ Environment in which the Organization exists & cope with ‐ PESTEL ‐ 5 forces ‐ Life Cycle Model ‐ KsFs / CsFs model
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Communicating About Food in Today's Diverse World -Have you ever needed to communicate ideas about food and nutrition to a family with a culture very different from your own? -Do you find yourself teaching people from an assortment of backgrounds --people who have important, lasting ties to their own cultures? -Are you called upon to provide guidance to people who have recently joined the community, for whom everything -- language, living accommodations, and economic status -- is new and different
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PSYCHOLOGY AND/OR CULTURE CAN HELP MANAGERS THINK CLEARLY ABOUT RISK AND UNCERTAINTY By SALAMI, SIKIRU ADIO Matric No.: 129022064 BEING A TERM PAPER PRESENTED TO PROFESSOR R.O. AYORINDE PROGRAMME: MASTERS OF RISK MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT: Department of Insurance & Actuarial Science FACULTY: Business Administration University of Lagos April, 2014 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PEOPLE’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS RISK CUTURE THEORY CHRONICLING RISK CULTURE STRENGTHENING RISK CULTURE Road Map
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The Enron Corporation Scandal Yolanda M. Allen Business Law I/LEG 100 Strayer University Instructor: Prof. Bryan Smith 20 August 2011 The Enron Corporation Scandal Describe how Enron could have been structured differently to avoid such activities. The origins of Enron started with the merger of Kenneth Lay’s company, Houston Natural Gas with InterNorth, a Nebraska-based pipeline company in 1985. Initially, from the beginning, Enron began to show some cracks in its structure
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million employees. The case describes the growth of Wal-Mart under Sam Walton’s values and leadership and reviews the main functions and operation of the company. Q.1 The retail industry is a highly competitive industry. Although Wal-Mart can rarely be beaten on price, there are many big discounted retail stores such as Target and K-Mart. There are also competitors that offer other advantages such as higher quality (Whole Foods) or better service (Best Buy). There is also little differentiation
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Title: Author: Institution: Professor: Date of submission: INTRODUCTION This paper will begin by a brief definition and analysis of each of the two sectors under consideration. The manager can be said to be going global in this case moving from a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) market whose scope is purely domestic to a more complex market dimension- The business to business market. (B2B). Fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) are those products with a short shelf life as a result
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Chapter 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace. 2. Describe the manager’s functions, roles, and skills. 3. Define organizational behavior (OB). 4. Show the value to OB of systematic study. 5. Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB. 6. Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB. 7. Identify
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