Table of Contents Case 1 Petrobras 3 Case 2 Mattel Toxic Toys – Dangerous Play 3 Case 3 Discrimination in sports – «Williams Brothers» 5 References 5 Introduction In this essay I want to analyse three cases, connected with unethical behaviour in Business. First two cases cover company-wide wrongdoings in big and well-known companies, as Petrobras and Mattel. And the third one is individual-wide case about gender discrimination in sport. Thus, according to these three cases, importance of ethics
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... 111 B. India’s Economic Liberalization and Mattel’s Second Chance at Success...................................................................................113 1. India, the IMF, and the World Bank ...................................113 2. Mattel in India from 1993-2010 .........................................115 III. UNDERSTANDING WHY BARBIE FAILED IN INDIA.............................. 120 A. Barbie’s Body as an Indecent Representation of the Female Form ...............................
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in their factories. While it is the goal of every company to continually increase profits, a company should not do so at the expense of another person or culture. Mattel is a company that took it upon themselves to change the way they did business, and improve the lives of their employees working in their overseas factories. Mattel saw the looming public relations storm, and worked to make changes to their policies in order to improve the quality of life and safety for their overseas factory
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logging. Consequently, during Indonesia’s history, its forests have been continually exploited, meaning deforestation and forest degradation have been inevitable. This paper will emphasize on deforestation caused by various world famous toy manufacturers, such as Mattel, Disney, Hasbro and Lego. The usage of MTH (Mixed Tropical Hardwood) in their packaging means rainforest clearance in Indonesia, since MTH is only pulped at commercial scales in Indonesia, mainly by APP (Asia Pulp & Paper). Not only
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Next it will explore translation strategies used by organisations involved in a crisis to communicate with stakeholders. The essay will then consider Ford–Firestone’s tire failure crisis of 2000 as an example of poor crisis management, and contrast toy maker Mattel’s recall crisis of 2007 as an example of successful crisis management. It will first lie out the rhetorical context of each case before embarking on a detailed analysis equating the effectiveness of both firms’ external communications,
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| Good Business Ethics | [Type the document subtitle] | | [Type the author name] | | Table of Contents Table of Contents------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Executive Summary-----------------------------------------------------------------2 Introduction--------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Research Finding #1 Why strong ethical decisions are important to companies. ----4 Research
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Part I Intra- and Extra Organizational Ethical Issues In prior to clarify the relationship between intra- and extra-organizational intangibles in individual cases, how these intangibles within business organizations could interact with those organizations’ various external constituents or stakeholders should be stressed in the very beginning. As the cornerstone of the corporate strategy, risk management plays a crucial role in promoting business ethics and social responsibility. Since any failure
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we should act, as there are no clear principles for guiding action other than “act as a virtuous person would act given the situation.” (2010). In this paper, I will address and define three of these virtues, apply each virtue respectively to the Mattel: GMP case, and describe which normative ethic was the most useful in evaluating the case. Courage, Fairness and Honesty According to Dictionary.com, courage is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain
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Reporte Caso 2: “Mattel’s Toys Recalls and Supply Chain Management” Reporte Caso 2: “Mattel’s Toys Recalls and Supply Chain Management” Héctor Daniel Aponte Mateus 1. Introducción Meses antes de la navidad de año 2007 Mattel® enfrentó el más grande problema de calidad en la producción de sus productos en su historia: debido principalmente a errores en el diseño de sus juguetes y a materiales utilizados en la producción de los mismos, entre otros, se vieron en la obligación de quitar
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Tarunkumar Patel MGMT 407-10 Executive Leadership Course Paper Topic: Crisis Management Instructor: Mr. Cleamon Moorer Introduction: I decide to work on a topic of Crisis Management. It is the process of preparing for and responding to an unpredictable negative event to prevent it from escalating into an even bigger problem, or worse, exploding into a full-blown, widespread, life-threatening disaster. Crisis management involves the execution of well-coordinated actions to control the damage
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