Accounting Fraud at WorldCom WorldCom grew rapidly in the 1980-90s through its various inorganic acquisitions – the resultant was a corporation with a hotchpotch of diverse and unaligned cultures. Exacerbating the situation, the Management (including the Board of Directors and CEO Ebbers) did little,if anything, to address the multiplicity of deontological and consequential ethics coexisting at WorldCom. CEO Ebbers in fact called an internal effort to create a corporate code of conduct a “colossal
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people’s reactions. He wanted to test whether putting good people in an evil place made a difference. He wanted to know does the environment influence behaviors or is it your moral beliefs and values that determine your behaviors. In the Stanford Prison experiment conducted in 1971 there were two parties: guards, and the inmates. Of course the authority was given to the guards. The experimenter wanted to create a sense of power over others to examine if this influenced people’s behaviors. In
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1. The impact of the experiment before and after was much different from one another. During the experiment, the teacher had asked who had blue eyes. Students raised their hands if they had blue eyes, and she went on explaining how blue eyed students are better, smarter, more fun. While the brown eyed students were the opposite. They felt very left out, treated unfairly, didn’t feel confident in the classroom, him or her, or life itself. They turned into “nasty, vicious, and discriminating” kids
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only evil people do evil acts. Research by Milgram and Zimbardo showed that ordinary, decent people who are placed in positions of power, or put under pressure to obey an authority figure, may commit evil acts. Recent events in Iraq (the Abu Ghraib prison incident) has reinforced the fact that we need to be aware of the circumstances which lead to this, to reduce the likelihood of such behaviour. To help in resisting unwanted influences, Zimbardo suggested a ten-step programme; examples of the step
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Zinn Paper #1 Chapters 1 and 3 Chapter 1: This chapter begins with a discussion of a few instances in history where groups of people believed that other races and social classes were inferior to others. The end result of these instances was that many, if not all, of the inferior people were killed. From these occurrences, Zinn concludes that our thinking does not merely spark debates, but ultimately is a variable of life and death. He also believes that although we live in a democratic country
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Discussing aspects of Facebook Emotional contagion experiment -Karan Ramchandani[MT2014049] Abstract:this eassy talks about the facebook experiment and different aspects of this experiment like technical,ethical and the future use of the results of this experiment. 1:Introduction Emotional conatagion is when we uncontiously show the same emotion as of the person in front of us without even knowing.this is well established in daily life as we can see for example if somebody gives us a smile with
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Journal Article Review Andrea Kennedy 9/24/15 SCE 4360 Practical Work in Science: Misunderstood and Badly Used. By: Johnathan Osbourne This article tackles the issue of practical work or experimental processes within the science teaching field. Specifically, Osborne questions the usefulness and degree to which it is used. Most science classes are taught in a lab and are only deemed valid if a hands on activity, lab, or experiment is used in teaching the lesson. In my opinion maybe this is because
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Karen Bullen R2208481 DE 100 Investigating Psychology 1 TMA02 Outline the similarities and differences between Milgrams (1963) obedience study and Burgers (2009) replication. This essay will look at an important key psychological experiment carried out by the renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram which was carried out in the early 1960’s (Banyard 2012) to determine how far ordinary people would go to inflict pain to a fellow human based on instruction from an authority figure, and
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The guards that were known as good did not object to the ideas or actions of the other guards that are known as bad because they all entered the experiment at the same time so they felt like they were more peers then anything. Both the good and the bad guards received the same information before they went into the actual experiment, but how each type interpreted was different. The bad guards believed they needed to act exactly like a guard would if they were in a facility in real life. If the guards
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In 2006 a study by Northfields Laboratory got outed for it’s unconsenting experiment done on trauma patients. An article from NBC News said the experiment got through with FDA approval through a loop hole, because the patients were unable to consent do to their injuries, and unable to get consent from a loved one do to the emergency situation. To combat that claim the article also stated that the company made the experiment common knowledge by holding meetings in each participating 31 cities. However;
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