Responsibility Practices in India: A Study of Top 500 Companies Richa Gautam and Anju Singh Industrial Safety & Environment Management Group, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), India Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this study is to explore the various definitions and descriptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); elaborate upon development of CSR in India; study the theoretical concepts expounded by various researchers and study the deployment of current CSR practices in India
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Singapore Nursing Board Standards for Nursing Practice defines that Nurses/midwives have the professional responsibility and accountability to uphold Standard of care and to contribute to their dissemination, interpretation and development despite medical advances, social and demographic changes and an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of care. Should nurses fail to uphold certain standards and by doing so cause harm or
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Riordan Corporate Compliance Plan Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics producer with an employee base of 550. The company has projected annual earnings at $46million and is owned by Riordan Industries. There are different segments of the company but the major customers are the automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers, bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. The company has recently undergone some strategic changes
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1. Discuss how personal differences and preference can impact organizational ethics. There are multitude of individual differences and preferences in any organization. The position of the individual within the organization would dictate the impact that they would have in the organizations ethics. If the organization adopts a grassroots approach they would attract employees who have stronger ethical values. An employee who is disgruntled would obviously have a negative impact of the organization
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Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act Nguyễn Phước Đại dnguyen0191@student.bristoluniversity.edu Bristol University BUS 555: Business Ethics 10/16/2013 Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Act Cynics sometimes like to say that locks on doors only keep honest people out, and the same is often true for accounting rules and regulations. We only trust financial statements from honest companies. Hefty penalties for violating the rules may act as curb for executives who are considering whether to play with
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statements played on Enron’s demise. We summarize some lessons that can be learned in order to prevent another Enron and restore confidence in the financial markets, as well as in the accounting and auditing professions. Keywords: Enron, Corporate Ethics, Corporate Bankruptcy, Creative Accounting. Introduction T he rise and fall of high profile businesses like Enron, WorldCom, Parmlat and Tyco has been a subject of great debate and research among regulators, investors, government and academics
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Multinational Corporations that maintain high levels of financial transparency and ethical standards realize higher profits in the long run than those that do not. Gap Incorporated adheres to high ethical standards and has enjoyed both financial success and growth globally throughout the last ten years. The company publicly reports numerous financial statements including its annual report, investor advice and guidance, and reports on individual department success. Gap funds over forty non-for
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executives. Because they had such high hopes for the company they were willing to sacrifice their morals and ethics. They discouraged employees from investigating ethical lapses and encouraged their employees to use aggressive and also illegal accounting procedures. b. Andersen also holds a lot of the responsibility. Andersen reviewed, analyzed and approved several of the accounting practices performed by Enron that they should not have. They should have questioned several things going on with Enron
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Gino Corasaniti Ethics Paper ACC223 11/20/11 In the accounting community, the AICPA is the certification issuing body for the CPA, and the IMA is the certification issuing body for the CMA. The AICPA stands for the “American Institute of CPA’s”, while IMA stands for the “Institute of Management Accountants”. The AICPA has six major roles in which it contributes to the well-being of accountants (Melancon, 2002). The first role is to obtain a larger involvement from the user’s of financial
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DOMESTIC CHANGING HEORY CHANGING PRACTICE 1. Introduction Throughout our world, violence confronts us daily. We hear about it on the news. We read about it in newspapers and on the Internet. We experience it subtly and overtly in all cultures and across nations in incidents ranging from ethnic slurs to hate crimes to violence carried out in the name of ideology. Such incidents of violence tend to be easily seen as they fall within the public domain. Less visible, however, but often more devastating
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