Baseball, Steroids and Business Ethics: How Breaches of Trust Can Change the Game: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1902) Baseball, Steroids and Business Ethics: How Breaches of Trust Can Change the Game Published : February 20, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton The day after former Senator George Mitchell released his damning report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball last December, President George Bush, a former baseball-team owner
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Unraveling the Details of 10 High-Profile Accounting Scandals written by: ciel s cantoria • edited by: Linda Richter • updated: 12/30/2010 Before digging into the dirty details of each of these major accounting scandals, we’ll take a look at some of the tools that were used to first detect them – including sophisticated accounting systems and advancements in high-tech communication. Technology Fighting Against White Collar Fraud Looking back at the 10 major accounting scandals that changed the
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meaning of the word leadership is: The ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals. With leadership comes attributes necessary to achieve the vision or goal such as discipline, character, integrity, dedication, ethics and I could go on. People work with different leadership styles to achieve their visions and or goals. Surrounding yourself with others that share the same vision as yours tend to help with the leadership process and helping with the success of
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Incorporating Ethics Training in Business Abstract As the need for showing the importance of ethical behavior standards has become more prominent of the past decade, this review intends to show the need for standards of ethics in businesses based on previous research. Ethical training within a business is a topic that has been debated on importance. It has been discussed as a benefit and as more of a cosmetic topic. There are many articles written that discuss what business ethics is, and then
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business ethics. It will attempt to highlight the turning points in the economic crisis and bifurcate back to the ethicality issue. A brief history of the stock market and Securities and Exchange Commission will be offered. This author will then identify the various ways the crisis could affect a business in the private enterprise. Lessons of the crisis will be presented along with managerial recommendations. Business Ethics Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Adelphia, Martha Stewart…these are
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Part Introduction to the Law 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Law, Legal Reasoning, and the Legal Profession Dispute Settlement Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Business and the Constitution Crimes Intentional Torts Negligence and Strict Liability Licensing and Intellectual Property 1 Chapter 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Law, Legal Reasoning, and the Legal Profession LO Learning Objectives After you have studied this chapter, you should be able to: Identify the basic
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[pic] Precourse assignment on page 10 – due first night of class Course: BUSN210 Professional Ethics Semester: Summer 2009 Instructor: David LaBeau Campus/Location: Livonia Room Number: 327 Meeting Days and Times: Tuesday, 6:00 / 9:50 pm Course Start Date: July 7, 2009 Last Date to Withdraw: August 7, 2009 Final Assessment Date: August 18, 2009 Instructor Contact Information: Office Location: Room 223 Office Hours: by appointment but I am very flexible with
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Handbook of Business Strategy Emerald Article: The ethics of business strategy Fred Hansen, Michele Smith Article information: To cite this document: Fred Hansen, Michele Smith, (2006),"The ethics of business strategy", Handbook of Business Strategy, Vol. 7 Iss: 1 pp. 201 - 206 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10775730610618828 Downloaded on: 09-04-2012 References: This document contains references to 16 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight
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Leadership and Ethics – (BUS6035-A) LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS GROUP TERM PAPER (Emotional Intelligence and leadership self-branding) Group Members: Nehemiah Kimani: 643907 Kiambati, Francis Kanyora: 645462 Judy Mwangi: 641678 Table of Contents EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 3 Introduction 3 Defining Emotional Intelligence 3 Branches of Emotional intelligence 4 Evolution of Emotional Intelligence 5 Major skills that make up emotional intelligence are: 7 Importance of Emotional
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CASE: DEVIANCE AT RKGA LLP Rick Berry slouched over his desk in the audit room at Videonics, his largest year-end client. Busy season was always tough, but this year it seemed even tougher. Since being promoted to senior manager a year and a half ago, Rick felt like he was being even more heavily scrutinized by his partners—including Joe Trumbell, his mentor and long-time friend. While Joe and other partners remained generally complimentary of Rick’s work, they seemed particularly teed up over
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