on a school bus or made an intercity journey by train. Some of you may have travelled on a super green energy-efficient tram or used a Park & Ride bus service. FirstGroup plc (known as First) is the UK’largest surface transportation company. It has s revenues of over £ billion a year. It employs over 135,000 staff throughout the UK and 5 North America and moves more than 2.5 billion passengers a year. •First is the largest UK rail operator carrying almost 270m passengers every year. This is one quarter
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: BETWEEN TREND AND NECESSITY by Cecile Oger BSc. (Honours) Chemistry with Business Administration Kingston University London, UK, 1995 A thesis presented to Ryerson University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration In the program of Master of Business Administration Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009 © Cecile Oger 2009 Library and Archives Canada Bibliothèque et Archives
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Ethical Decisions in Leadership OLS26300 Gareth M Terhune Spring 2013 Goals: As a leader, I want to be someone that my peers look up to. I want to be the authority figure that my underlings feel they can talk to and express their thoughts and fears to. I want to be the figure that others aspire to work for and bond with. I want to see the company that I bond with succeed. I want the employees to want to work under me. I want the people that I bring to my company to desire to be like
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elsevier.com/locate/ijproman E-ethical leadership for virtual project teams Margaret R. Lee * Capella University, 225 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402, United States Received 30 March 2008; received in revised form 21 May 2008; accepted 27 May 2008 Abstract This paper presents a review of current literature on ethical theories as they relate to ethical leadership in the virtual business environment (e-ethics) and virtual project leadership. Ethical theories are reviewed in relation
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I.T.S - INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT GREATER NOIDA Announces National Seminar on Ethical Imperatives for Contemporary Business Organisations 20th & 21st January, 2012 Venue of the Seminar Seminar Hall, I.T.S- Institute of Management 46, Knowledge Park III, Greater Noida-201308 Ph: 0120-2331000/1062/1069, 9212180556 E Mail ID: imseminar@its.edu.in Website: www.itsim.edu.in About I.T.S-The Education group I.T.S is a fast growing education group in Northern India. Established in 1995 with its
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN VIETNAM; A STUDY OF ITS IMPORTANCE BY PHAM THUY LY E0700048 i BACHELOR OF BUSINESS (ACCOUNTING) HONS HELP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MARCH 2011 DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY AND WORD COUNT I hereby declare that the graduation project is based on my original work except for quotations and citations which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not been previously or concurrently submitted for any other course/degree at Help University College or other
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Responsible Business Report on Corporate Responsibility ‘Fashion Retailing in Europe’ Laura Wallace: 1083579942 Module Leader/ Tutor: Mark Winter 15th May 2015 Word Count: 3,296 1 Contents 1.0 What is Corporate Responsibility? Page 3 2.0 Key Issues of Corporate Responsibility Page 3 2.1 Issues Relating to Outsourcing Page 4 and 5 2.2 Child Labour Page 5 and 6 2.3 The Use of Animal Fur and Environmental Issues Page 6 and 7 3.0 Best Practice Within the Sector
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Cloud Computing: The Benefits and the Downside Air, energy, the environment are intangible to the human eye, but yet all three play an integral part in our survival. Cloud computing relates to these three things because all of these could be adversely affected by cloud computing. Technology is an ever evolving and growing market dominated by the consumerism of Apple products and a world where instant gratification is gloried as information is processed in the matter of seconds. The evolution
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® Academy o/ Management Executive. 2004. Vol. 18. No. 2 Business ethics and customer stakeholders O.C. Ferrell A common view of the firm holds that employees, customers, shareholders, and suppliers are key organizational stakeholders.^ While obligations to these stakeholders are sometimes considered to be motivated by organizational self-interest, the ethical perspective asserts the rightness or wrongness of specific firm actions independently of any social or stakeholder obligations.^ Customers
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4 4. Political and legal (Sheng) 6 5. Economic Considerations (Sheng) 8 6. Psychological and Sociological effects (Evelyn) 10 7. Cultural and Media Influences (Evelyn) 11 8. Environmental Implications (Geraldy) 12 9. Ethical and Moral Implications (Geraldy) 13 10. References 15 1. Introduction Nanotechnology is an ambiguous term used for a technology that allows for the creation and manipulation of molecular size materials. These materials can be assembled
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