Block 1 1 Introduction to the Professional Ethics Training Responsible Conduct of Research (PET-RCR) The University of Oklahoma Block 1 2 Professional Ethics Training – Responsible Conduct of Research Thank you for signing up for the Professional Ethics Training – Responsible Conduct of Research (PET-RCR) seminar. Certification: All training participants are expected to attend and actively participate on both days of training. A certificate of completion will be issued to trainees
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Situations in business STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES A company needs to have a strong ethics plan in order to providing services to other businesses. A company’s that will be successful has defined goals and employees' individual responsibilities. An ethics program helps in the identification and management individual and company’s shortfalls to long-term goals. The main goal is to create a successful company that focuses on client satisfaction and ethical business practices. Employees are expected
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Leadership HRM 522 June 12, 2011 Global businesses can sometimes be difficult due to the different cultures. Not all cultures carry the same value, law and ethical standard. Nike is an international brand that has many retail accounts in over 160 countries. Being an international company can cause business ethical and legal issues. Integrity is important and sometimes a challenge when a corporation must respond to criticism
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Subject: Human Resources, Task2, Ethical decision making This is to bring to your kind notice that recently we have received a report from the quality assurance department regarding the toy collection which has been recently been made for elementary schools for our South American client. The toys made did not pass the quality check as it includes a metal whistle, which contains high percentage of led which is highly harmful for the children. The shipment needs to be left by the end of the week
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Enron, Ethics, and the Law BUS 375 Enron, Ethics, and the Law This paper will explain the history of Enron and were it failed. These failures led to many changes that today’s employees must know about and then be trained to avoid those same mistakes. While this company was based in the United States their failures had a global impact that has caused cultural changes across the world. These changes have caused employee ethics training to be changes across the world. Like everything else in the workplace
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market shares for $8.50 per share. After years of financial accomplishment in 2006 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made inquiries of Dell internal accounting and Dell Inc. was investigated after a review of past accounting and reporting practices and company eventually disclosed wrongful conduct for deferring revenue coming from software sales, errors and irregularities which took place from 2003 through 2007. The investigation concluded that a number of adjustment were improper, including
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Accounting Assignment In accounting, unethical practices and behavior has been an ongoing problem that misleads investors and employees. The personal gain, misuse of funds, and many other variables drive corporate officials to make unethical decision. Other unethical practices seen in the corporate world has been bribery, security fraud, manipulation of profits, and more. This is the reason the government created the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002(Bannon, S., Ford, K., & Meltzer, L.,2010). There
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“What is Business Ethics?” Essay Posted on July 5, 2012 1 Introduction Dated back to Code of Hammurabi some 4,000 years ago, business ethics is a social science, whose main aim is to define and examine the responsibilities of businesses and their agents as a part of the general moral environment of a given society. The products of this field of research are sets of rules and codes of conducts, which serve as a means of protection from the possible infringements of moral codes as a result from
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ACCOUNTING IN CONTEXT POTTER I LIBBY I LIBBY I SHORT ACCOUNTING IN CONTEXT BRADLEY N. POTTER University of Melbourne ROBERT LIBBY Cornell University PATRICIA A. LIBBY Ithaca college DANIEL G. SHORT Texas Christian University Boston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco St. Louis Bangkok Bogotá Caracas Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi Santiago Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto Copyright © 2009 McGraw Hill
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number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. This paper discusses the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act on corporate information security governance practices. The resultant regulatory intervention forces a company to revisit its internal control structures and asses the nature and scope of its compliance with the law. This paper reviews the implications emerging from the mandatory compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
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