Corporate Compliance Plan: Riordan Manufacturing Law/531 Charles Cook February 21, 2011 Corporate Compliance Plan: Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing Inc.(RM Inc.), established in 1991 by Dr. Riordan, developed quickly as a leader within Research and Development (R&D) and sales of plastic products. Clients, such as the Department of Defense, automotive segment manufacturers, multi-commerce transportation, and packaging plants. RM Inc. is competitive in multiple countries within
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ETHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE CHALLENGES FACING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES IN DEVELOPING AREAS Frederick Bird, Concordia University June17, 2003 (Preliminary draft: Please do not cite without permission) Introduction: We now live in a world where the lives of all peoples are inextricably inter-connected. We have been brought closer to each other through modern systems of transportation and telecommunication. Commercially the links between people grow in number and complexity. Elements in the products
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Evaluation of a Business Code of Ethics Wal-Mart has been one of the trademark successes of a retail business. We have seen Wal-Mart in any growing community in the United States (U.S.) as well as globally. This paper will discuss the business ethics of Wal-Mart that will cover evaluation and analysis of the problem-solving process used by Wal-Mart together with their decision making–processes. Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton on 1962 with the first discount store in Arkansas. Sam Walton saw
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Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 52-66, 2000 © 2000 Elsevier Science, Inc. ISSN 0090-2616/00/$--see frontmatter PII 50090-2616(00)00005-X When Ethics Collide: Managing Conflicts Across Cultures PAUL F. BUllER JOHN J. KOHLS KENNETH S. ANDERSON Nike-one of the fastest-growing companies in the world-has been stymied recently due in part to consumer reaction to conflicts involving management practices in its suppliers' factories in the Far East. Among the accusations-poor working conditions
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Professional Values and Ethics GEN/200 June 13, 2011 Abstract When investigating society’s professional values and ethics one would find that there are varying opinions on what is and is not ethical. In a world of propaganda, it is a rarity to find a professional, let alone a business that has much of a conscience. In today’s society there are two ways to advance a career. It can be done the ethical way through hard work, following the rules and doing the job correctly. An in-depth look into
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Gulati 15P201 Rahul Kasera 15P221 Soumitra Joysula 15P231 Values & Ethics in Organizations Values & Ethics in Organizations Contents 1. Background 1 2. The Concept of Ethics and Values 1 2.1. Values 1 2.2. Ethics 1 2.3. Role of Leadership in Organizational Ethics and Values formation 1 2.3.1 Moral Spill-over Effect 1 2.4. Organisational Ethics 1 2.4.1 Basic Elements of Organizational Ethics 1 3 Motivation theories for building ethical organisations 1 3.1 Stakeholder
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The Fall of Enron 1. Introduction Although Enron went bankrupt and disappeared ten years ago, the impacts it has made on the ethical standards never faded. It took Enron 16 years to go from about ten billion dollar assets to more than sixty-five billion dollar assets, and took twenty-four days to go bankrupt. (McLean & Elkind, 2004) Enron, which once ranked as the seventh-largest company on the Fortune 500 and ranked as the sixth-largest energy company in the world, on December 2, 2001
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Attachment, in dictionary terms, means affection, fondness, or sympathy for someone or something. In psychotherapy, attachment theory refers to how those attachments impact human interpersonal relations. Attachment theory was first conceptualised by John Bowlby, a psychoanalyst who dedicated his time to studying the affectional bonds which form between a child and his primary caregiver. In Segal and Jaffe (2013), the affectional bond is simply but realistically defined as one's first love relationship
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order to build trust with its consumers, employees and other stakeholders. It aims to act responsible in everything it does, being a good citizen in the communities where it operates, and making sure it gets the best employees by providing the best working environment. Its main key objective is to be a responsible company. Vodafone is committed to high standards of ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance that are considered critical to business growth and integrity. The company
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this work as a good reference book to discuss how ethical theories such as deontology can be applied to commercial exploitation of outer space resources. Livingston, D. (2003). A code of ethics for conducting business in outer space. Space Policy, 19(2), 93-94. Livingston’s article presents a list of code of ethics for commercial operations in outer space and serves as an independent guideline for companies that want to venture into space. His guideline provides me with a good tool to evaluate
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