Helsinki University of Technology Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Doctoral Dissertation Series 2010/8 Espoo 2010 LEADERSHIP IN A SMALL ENTERPRISE Helena Palmgren Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due permission of the Faculty of Information and Natural Sciences, Helsinki University of Technology, for public examination and debate on May 7, 2010 at 12 o'clock in Auditorium AS1 at the Aalto University School of Science
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Joseph Freberg, a sales manager , worked in Alcon for 18 months. He first began his work at Cala Industry, which specialized in making air compressors. Because his work with Cala, he had been lured away to Alcon. And Joseph was trying to figure out how to solve an ethical dilemma he had come across. He happened to find out that Carl had been giving feedbacks to some of his buyers. Carl's sales volume accounted for a substantial amount of the company's existing clientele sales and he had been the
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can impact organizational performance. Answer: Leadership is the process of developing ideas and visions, living by values that support those ideas and that vision, influencing others to embrace them in their own behaviors, and making hard decisions about human and other resources (Hellriegel & Slocum, 2011, p. 290). Whereas according to Richard et al. (2009), organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended goals
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Define the ethical problem. The ethical problem is that there is a security issue in the Communications and Electronics Section of the new unit in which I am assigned, and whether or not I should be honest and report this issue. 2. Employ applicable laws and regulations. To employ applicable laws and regulations I would need to research Army regulations and the unit's local Standard Operating Procedure to determine proper disposal of "Secret" documents. 3. Reflect on the ethical values
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which promotes disclosure of corporate greenhouse gas emissions. 2) Raise each three characteristics of ISO26000 and GRI. ISO26000 - Provides guidance on how businesses and organizations can operate in a socially responsible way; acting in an ethical and transparent way that contributes to the health and welfare of society. - Clarifies what social responsibility is. - Helps business and organizations translate principles into effective actions and shares best practices relating to social responsibility
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1. Yes. Though law includes ethical standards, ethics is not about legality. As long as it produced greater good regardless of non-compliance with laws, it is ethical. For example, in act utilitarianism, violation of rule is justified when the consequence demands for it as long as it will produce most benefits, since under utilitarianism, morality is about producing good consequences despite absence of good intentions. For example, it is illegal to defy traffic rules, but in case for
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Ethical Decision-Making in the Military Decision-Making Process Contribution to the JSCOPE 2000 Conference “Moral Considerations in Military Decision Making”. Dr. D. (Desiree) Verweij Lieutenant Colonel G.A.A.M. (Gérard) Cloïn (drs.) Major E.C. (Erhan) Tanercan MED (drs.) E-mail: ilmo@army.disp.mindef.nl Tel: +31 76 527 46 53 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +31 76 527 46 53 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Introduction A great deal has
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Ethical decisions are a hard process and the decision is not always easy when making them. When making ethical decisions it is good to collaborate with other professionals. Counselors, social workers, and psychologist play a certain role in helping clients. Clients expect the best care from clinicians and expect that clinicians. Clinicians need to understand that they need to not imposed their own values, when making the correct ethical dilemmas. Clinicians need to look at the whole client when
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Values and Ethical Decision Making Learning Team A Kevin Davis, Desmond Harris, David Stevens MGT 521 January 30, 2010 Richard Lewis Values and Ethical Decision Making Individuals and organizations make multiple decisions every day. Making decisions involves making a choice between two or more alternatives (Nickels, McHugh, & McHugh, 2010). Some of these choices are small, like what flavor of ice cream to buy, whereas other choices are big, like should a corporate executive take a bribe
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CHAPTER 2 – Ethical Decision Making Model Objectives: * To know the definition of Ethics, * To discuss Principles of Ethical Conduct * To identify the Ideas organizing Principle of Ethics * To provide a systematic way of making ethical decision. * To encourage, motivate you to think about Ethical Decision you make. Meaning of Ethics Ethics: * Ethics provides a set of standards for behavior that helps us decide how we ought to act in a range of situations. In a
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