Running Head: What This Manager Didn’t Do! Ethical Dilemma What This Manager Didn’t Do Principles of Organizational Behavior Professor B. Code December 6, 2006 First of all, what is a manager? Stephen P. Robbins’ states, that “a manager is an individual who achieve goals through other people. They make decisions, allocate resources, and direct the activities of others to attain goals
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tA B L E o F C o n t E n t S oUR EtHICAL FoUndAtIon, oUR CoRE VALUES And oUR KEy dRIVERS ........................1 Our Code of Business Ethics ..........................................2 We are passionately focused on business results and customer success. ........................................14 Fair Dealing .....................................................................14 SECtIon I EtHICAL BEHAVIoR We uphold the highest ethical standards and are accountable for all
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Leighla Duty MGMT 362 – Organizational Behavior Week 5 Case Study “How Personal Can Ethics Get?” Synopsis: Valerie Young was a marketing manager at Wisson, an international cosmetics and fragrance company located in Chicago. Valerie’s job is to contribute organizational, financial, and marketing skills. Valerie’s department downsized from 25 to 10 employees in the previous year. Her department was unique in a sense, because they acted as an agency; they delivered designs for bottles
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Ethical Issues in Business Management Performance Evaluation Professionals like to be evaluated, to compete, to know how they have excelled against their peers. They want to be evaluated objectively and by people at the top of their field. Hence, heavy internal competition and frequent performance evaluation and feedback are common in outstanding organizations. But performance evaluation is one of the most difficult activities managers of professionals have to do. Performance evaluation is, as
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passing day, new technology is immerged; hence a proper methodology for adopting these technologies should be there, hence there is need for ethics and code ofconduct. “The use of information technology in society is creating a rather unique set of ethical issues that requires the making of new moral choices on the part of society and has spawned special implications for its members.” Technology is neither the only nor necessarily the cause of these issues. These issues initially arise out of the Human
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Archiving 2 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………Page 3 Introduction to the world of Archiving……………………………………………………Page 4 Laws and penalties associated with archiving……………………………………………..Page 5 My ethical and legal dilemma……………………………………………………………...Page 6 Ethical dilemmas in archiving……………………………………………………………...Page 6 Process of identifying archiving liability…………………………………………………...Page 7 The solution based on law…………………………………………………………………..Page 8 The affects…………………………………………………………………………………
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responsibility, such as the CEO, should conduct a meeting so all employees were notified of the economic hardship of the company. People want to know the truth. First rule of public relations is to never lie no matter how bad the news is. I would not tell Molly directly because it would be unfair to other co-workers who did not have access to that kind of information at the same time as Molly. Molly has come to express her concern that she may be making a terrible financial decision if she does not
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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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science fiction authors and fans has become reality. Such topics as stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, and cloning have created quite a stir in scientific communities. However, these advancements do not come without a cost, or without ethical dilemmas. First, a definition of these terms is required. Following that, we will explore some topics and the ethics associated with them. Stem cells exist in all living things. These cells go on to either produce more stem cells or specialize to become
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Chapter 1 Ethical Reasoning: Implications for Accounting Ethics Reflection PENN STATE CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL: A CULTURE OF INDIFFERENCE What motivates an otherwise ethical person to do the wrong thing when faced with an ethical dilemma? Why did Joe Paterno and administrators at Penn State University look the other way and fail to act on irrefutable evidence that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had raped and molested young boys, an offense for which Sandusky currently is serving
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