Assignment 1 Title: Employment At-Will Doctrine Student: David Nti-Berko Professor: Anne E. Dewey-Balzhiser Course: LEG 500 – Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Submission Date: 07/28/2013 Introduction Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, employment at-will has been the starting point in America employer-employee relationships (D. Mathews, 1975). Under the doctrine of employment at-will, an employer may terminate
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Sherita Pittman October 26, 2014 Master of Business Administration LEG 500 Strayer University Employment and employee go hand and hand at some point in life. Work is defined as, exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil and employment is, an occupation by which a person earns a living; work; business (Dictionary.reference.com (2014). As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a midsize company preparing for an Initial Public
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Assignment 2: Ethical Socially Responsive Business Felicia White Professor Porter BUS 100-Introduction To Business December 13, 2015 Ruby Tuesday, Inc.’s “RTI or the Company” vision is to provide great value to guest and a great working environment for our team members. In keeping with this vision, the Company has adopted this Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. They take pride in honest, integrity, and ethical behavior. Ethical behavior goes beyond the basics. Your actions can be legal
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Ethical and Criminal Responsibility (Week 2) Corris Macon LAW 531 Ethical and Criminal Responsibility (Week 2) Employers have a moral responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of their employees. When it comes to taking corrective or preventative action, and an employee poses a danger to others, any company or organization must do what is necessary in preventing something from happening. First, as the employer, there is what is called duty of responsible care. Not taking preventative
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of the main ethical dilemmas that a store manager working for Wal-Mart might be faced with is a conflict of interest. He/she has been placed into a situation where there is no right or wrong answer, but rather a right, and right answer. Does he choose the role of being a good manager, and risk the managerial position? Or does he act upon the “unethical” commands of his superiors in favor of keeping his job? Three underlying elements further complicating his decision to make ethical choices are discussed
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By definition a sweatshop is a “negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay in horrible conditions, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay and or minimum wage”. Many corporations in the United States use sweatshop labor in countries over seas such as China to produce their products at a lower cost. As entailed in the letter from a man born in China, many citizens on these countries
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Assignment 4 – The Ethical Dilemma M. Markham BBA400 Advanced Global Management Professor Charles Main, MBA, MAIB March 22, 2014 Assignment 4 – The Ethical Dilemma Identify the problem. The problem or concern is two-fold, whether or not it is ethical to hire models to work the company booth as well as whether or not it is ethical if said model is to wear revealing clothing. This is an ethical concern as it can be seen as employee discrimination as the “looks” of the women is what qualifies
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linked in this discriminatory case (Encyclopedia of Small Business, 2007. According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it prohibits employees from basing employment decision on a person’s race, color, religion, sex or origin. The employment decisions include compensation terms, conditions or privilege of employment (Gomez-Meija, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010). The employee felt that working on his religious holy day is unfair because it was against his religious beliefs. Title VII of the
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Ronnie Jones Bus. 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Fall Quarter 2012 Abstract It is not uncommon that an office romance will develop between co-workers; based on the fact that majority of their lifetime is spent at their place of employment. Employers are aware of this possibility and have workplace romance policies to protect themselves and the parties in the relationship. Consensual Relationship Agreements (CRAs) are one of the policies that protect the company and the parties
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AT-WILL-EMPLOYMENT Written By: Karla McCleskey Submitted to : G. Alexander Weimer, Jr LEG 500 January, 23, 2011 1 In the United States employees without a written employment contract can be fired “for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all”. This topic alone has been around since the nineteenth century, and has given employers unfettered power to dismiss their employees without being thereby guilty of a legal wrong. Many employees believe
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