guilt/regret/hindsight etc) 3. The idea of situation (e.g. Fletcher's lifeboat - captain orders sailors to jump overboard to save women & children). "Unique and concrete moment in which the decision is required" - every situation is unique/relative (e.g. Ford Pinto case - cost benefit analysis) 4. Making decisions rather than following rules - teleological, not deontological. "A-rational, not irrational" Don't just blindly follow rules, use conscience situationally (e.g. hero of situation ethics = St. Louis
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Cisco case assignments (Niihka) Class Two Owners continued Living Richly (text, pg. 236); Adelphia (Niihka) Adelphia case assignment (Niihka) Week of Sept 7 Class One Labor Day – NO CLASS ClassTwo Forms of business; Intro to Business Processes “Forms of business” excerpt (Niihka); Ciao Baby Pesto case (Niihka) Baby Pesto case due Week of Sep 14 Class One Customers as stakeholders Text Ch 15: Consumer Protection Read Guns Excerpt Odwalla case due
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the compliance officers when the vehicle was on the drawing board? There is a dreadful echo of the classic Pinto scandal of the last century. Ford’s then management was aware of the weakness of the fuel tank. A crash from the rear could cause the tank to explode and incinerate the occupants. To correct the fault required a few dollars. A so-called cost-benefit analysis allowed Ford engineers to show “taking no action” would cost less” than paying the expected legal damages. This was a craven
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Task 2 Chapter 8 of the book Law and Ethics in Global Organisations covers the different types of business transaction i.e Commercial (business to business) and consumer (business to consumer). It looks at the legal protection involved in such transactions. Nelson takes issues regarding Consumer transactions and looks at them from various standpoints such as moral principles, principles of contract law as well as EU and US Government approach to such issues. The main issue in this chapter which
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Case 1: Specific Performance Remedy Denied on Equity Standard Campbell Soup Co. v. Wentz et. al. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS THIRD CIRCUIT 172 F.2d 80 (1949) OPINION BY: GOODRICH The transactions which raise the issues may be briefly summarized. On June 21, 1947, Campbell Soup Company (Campbell), a New Jersey corporation, entered into a written contract with George B. Wentz and Harry T. Wentz, who are Pennsylvania farmers, for delivery by the Wentzes to Campbell of all the Chantenay red cored
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1 Introduction 1.1 Background This assignment has been assigned by Mr. Gilbert for me to do a research on any topics that is related to the chapters that are available in this subject. The title of my research will be “Does CSR have any impact on company performance?” . Plato once said that, Only people with the whole nations good in mind can be allowed to rule the just state (Plato through Larsson, 2003 p. 87). Hence from this statement we can see that even in the past people do take serious
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Book: The Road Less Traveled: Part 1: Discipline (pages 11-78) Study Question: In keeping with the four-fold explanation offered by Peck concerning the nature of discipline, consider and respond to each of the following questions: 1. What is Peck’s thesis concerning the delaying of gratification? How can you see it applying at an organizational level? 2. What is Peck’s perspective concerning the appropriate acceptance of responsibility? As you think back on Session 1’s content on the modern
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raised the number one issue on the lists of proposals and recommendations: The latches on the minivan rear doors appeared to be popping open even in low-speed crashes. The Chrysler Minivan latches did not appear to have the strength of either the Ford Windstar minivan or the Chevy minivan rear door latch. Mr. Sheridan proposed that Chrysler make the latches stronger and use that strength as a marketing tool. After Mr. Sheridan made his proposal, and according to testimony in a subsequent product
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School of Business ------------------------------------------------- Course Syllabus MGT/216 Version 4 Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility Course Start Date: 08/31/2010 Course End Date: 10/04/2010 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2009 by University of Phoenix
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Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 Team members: Ahmed khaled said 20080044 (searching and collecting the cases and all the data that we need it from the internet) Maged mohsen el-wakeel 20080631 (summaries the case and the data that we got it) Moaz abdel raheem 20080626 (typing the project at word) Ahmed gamal 20080400 (he did the outline. also he organized the shape of the project and work in the presentation
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