associated with the Ethics in Action boxes THINK THEORY 1 Think of the duties of managers to their shareholders from the perspective of ethics of duty (Kant’s theory). Apply this theoretical lens to the three incidents described above. In each case, management in the three incidents failed to respect the ethics of duty. Kant’s Maxim 1 is about an action being right only if everyone could follow the same underlying principle (the ‘golden rule’). For example, Ahold management concealed the true
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Exploratory software testing is a powerful and fun approach to testing. In some situations, it can be orders of magnitude more productive than scripted testing. I haven't found a tester yet who didn't, at least unconsciously; perform exploratory testing at one time or another. Yet few of us study this approach, and it doesn't get much respect in our field. It's high time we stop the denial, and publicly recognize the exploratory approach for what it is: scientific thinking in real-time. Friends
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Questions 1. How does Toyota's approach to social responsibility relate to the three concepts of social responsibility described in the text (profit responsibility, stakeholder responsibility, and societal responsibility)? beyond Toyota seems to flip the order of the three concepts of social responsibility. Since Japan is a high-context culture, where social responsibility is a key precept, it is no surprise that Toyota’s core principle (“to contribute to society and the economy by producing
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Information System Part 1 Page 35 1. A)Based on the textbook, there’s an example of the business such newspaper, newspaper’s readership continue to decline and more than 64 million people receive their news online, 67 million Americans now read blogs, 21 million write blogs. These did not exist 5 years ago (Pew 2008). Social networking such as my space or face book attract 70 and 30 million visitors per month and as we can see businesses are starting to use social networking as the tools
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Case Study 7-2 Ran Niu 1. What benefits has BIOCO realized from its use of balanced scorecards? A balanced scorecard has four perspectives, Customer perspective, internal business perspective, Innovation and learning perspective, and financial perspectives. By using balanced scorecards, BIOCO knows what the customers needed is. It helps BIOCO to fulfill customers’ need better. For internal business perspective part, BIOCO can clear the corporate vision and strategy. BIOCO can adjust the strategy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS I.INTRODUCTION a) Organisational Change –an overview b) Kurt Lewin and his theories of change c) General Motors International 2. APPRAISAL OF KURT LEWIN’S 3- STEP MODEL (Manufacturing change at General Motors as a case study) 3. CRITIQUES OF THE MODEL 4. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION In a dynamic world of increasing technology, competition, power relations and managerial opportunism, investment in Research and Development (R&D) by organisations and fluctuations in
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Ethical Perspectives Paper Part I: Please provide answers to the following: 1. Identify the relevant facts of the Ford Pinto case: In 1970 Ford introduced the Pinto, a small car that was intended to compete with the then current challenge from European cars and the ominous presence on the horizon of Japanese manufacturers. The Pinto was brought from inception to production in the record time of approximately 25 months, where a normal car usually takes 43 months. This showed an expedited time
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“If children can't learn the way we teach, then we have to teach the way they learn” (Robert Buck). This is a great quote on how to approach teaching students with disabilities. The article I read was entitled “Teaching a Student with Dyslexia” by Kenneth J. Bryson. Dyslexia is a learning disability that I heard before but was uncertain what it fully meant. My definition was that it was a condition that affected a persons reading and writing abilities. It wasn’t until 2002 The International Dyslexia
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for example Durkheim (1874) tried to establish sociology as a distinct discipline with his famous study Le Suicide (using a positivists approach). Durkheim believed that Comte had not successfully established sociology as a scientific discipline as that sociology could be objective as the natural science so long as we study social facts as ‘things’, this approach involves the detailed inquiry into ‘things; just like objects in the natural science. This impacts
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Business Read the two case studies (Two Men and a Lot of Trucks and the case study Siemens’s New Boss) on pp. 233–236 of the text. Answer the following in a 200- to 300-word response: List the specific names of the motivation theories from Ch. 7 (i.e. Maslow’s, Expectancy Theory, Goal-Setting Theory, Equity Theory, Job Enrichment Theory) which are found in each case study Describe these theories you identified in the case studies and cite specific examples of how they were used
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