Week 1: Business Ethics and International Responsibility - Lecture | | Print This Page | Introduction to Ethics and International Law Introduction | Business Ethics | Social Responsibility | Ethical Dilemma Resolution Models | Video – Business Ethics: An Oxymoron? | Practice Quiz | | Introduction | | The E in Enron definitely did not stand for ethics, but Enron and its contemporaries like Arthur Andersen, Tyco, and WorldCom altered the lives of thousands of people and shaped new
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The Mysterious Roses and Cold Feet ETH/316 University of Phoenix The Ethics Games Dilemmas this week presented “The Mysterious Roses” and “Cold Feet” simulations. For the exercise we were required to address the issues in the simulation and identify the best decision for all parties involved. This summary will review what ethical issues were presented in the simulation, the decision making steps to ethically address the issues, the perspectives and lenses that were used
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of Contents Table of Contents ii 1 What are the business problem(s) involved in the case? 1 2 What are the ethical issues raised by the case? 2 2.1 Formalist Analysis 2 2.2 Utilitarian perspective 3 2.3 Virtue ethics perspective 4 2.4 Descriptive ethics framework 5 3 What would Alex Brown do? 6 4 Conclusion 7 Appendix 1: Scoring two courses of action based on Formalist Perspective 8 Appendix 2: Scoring two courses of action based on Utilitarian Perspective 9
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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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Ethics Game Dilemma Mysterious Roses and Cold Feet March 12, 2013 Abstract Sexual Harassment and Falsifying data are an unethical practice that could happen in an organization. Leaders are required to take action. In the case of the Mysterious Roses and the case of the Cold Feet G BioSport find themselves resolving serious dilemmas. This discuss will address decision-making steps, ethical lenses used to make decisions, and ethical lenses that influence decisions. Ethical issues presented
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a business that is determined to make a profit without considering the morale and comfort of their employees (Svensson & Wood, 2008). By failing to have happy employees in your business and over working them to make a profit can cause an ethical dilemma as the employee can see this type of business operation as a way of prioritizing profit over the employee morale. According to Thomas, Schermerhorn & Dienhart (2004) unlawful behavior is actions that breaks established laws or rules that control
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at the time of this publication was stated to be over 1 billion (Laudon & Laudon, 2014). In 2011, the vast majority, eighty-five percent, of Facebook's revenue was derived solely from advertising sales with the remaining attributed to sale of Zynga games (Laudon & Laudon, 2014).Importantly, the revenue stream associated with Facebook’s success is leveraged on the collection of information provided by the users. Users of Facebook create on-line profiles and upload their photos, videos, communicate
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agrees that business managers must understand finance and marketing. But is it necessary for them to study ethics? Managers who answer in the negative generally base their thinking on one of three rationales. They may simply say that they have no reason to be ethical. They see why they should make a profit, and most agree they should do so legally. But why should they be concerned about ethics, as long as they are making money and staying out of jail? Other managers recognize that they should be
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possible. In this situation I believe that Frank the salesperson is enticing Otis the buyer with perks to pick their product so that he could get the contract that Acme Corporation had been trying to get for so long. By Frank offering tickets to games or vacations he was able to get that contract. Sure, that seems enticing and it seems like Frank is building a relationship with Otis. However, if you really look at the big picture, Frank is actually using a tactic to bring Otis closer in to close
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Organizational Issues – Ethics Game ETH/316 December 12, 2012 Organizational Issues – EthicsGame The EthicsGame is a simulation program of University of Phoenix on real-world situations. It was written as a tool to help educate students on ethical decision-making. The simulation The Mysterious Blogger was chosen by the author to analysis is based on a company called G-BioSpot. A leading edge sports nutrition and supplements company founded by Carson Nelson, and Rian Miller. After working in
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