Ethical Choices Indicate whether you consider each of the following actions ethical, unethical, or a grey area. Which of the actions would you do? Which would you feel uncomfortable doing? Which would you refuse to do? 1. Taking home office supplies (e.g., pens, markers, calculators, etc.) for personal use. I feel that if one person takes supplies then they will all do it. Furthermore, it is unethical if office supplies are taken, and personally I would not take supplies from an office because
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with amplified access to information which includes communication and better productivity of large systems. We can enhance our lives with the usage of technology. With this same technology privacy can be destroyed and economies can be harmed by unethical acts such as cyber-attacks. The need to observe the go-ahead between information-sharing efforts and privacy and civil liberties is only likely to raise more pressing as the nature of the threats facing the United States shifts (Nelson, 2014).
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When will customers care about service failures that happened to strangers? The role of personal similarity and regulatory focus and its implication on service evaluation Abstract This paper examines an interesting research question: how does a service failure that happen to a stranger customer influence an observing customer's service evaluation? Drawing on the defensive attribution theory and regulatory focus theory, we argue that an observing customer will attribute more (vs. less) blame to
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a scandal that involved the top leadership of the company. The scandal that led to the failure of Enron did not happen overnight. The failure was rooted in the company’s unethical leadership (Weidlich & Calkins, 2006). Enron’s fast rise to the largest energy management firm mirrored its demise because of unethical practices by Jeff Skilling the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Andy Fashow, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) (Gutman, 2002). Enron’s leadership were accused of profiting from
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subject it is very important in life, business and especially in management. Managerial ethics is something that companies say they have when it comes to how they do business but are there managers really ethical or are they just looking the other way when it comes to ethical issues that might arise within their company. Keywords: Ethics, Management Ethics: Why is it Essential in Management? When it comes to ethics in management it is essential for business to have, but most of the time it is
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Managerial Organization LDR/531 March 23, 2013 Managerial Organization One of the world’s leading electricity companies, Enron Corporation, suffered from a financial scandal, which involved the corporation and its accounting firm. The scandal happened during the 1990s and was a result of irregular accounting procedures. This scandal caused Enron to file bankruptcy in December 2001 (Thomas, 2002). The subject of this paper will discuss how organizational behavior theories could have predicted
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financial position of an organization or business. This type of information is critical to investors as it provides them with important and detailed information that could turn out to be the determining factor as to their decisions to invest or not to invest in a particular organization. Therefore, it is not uncommon to find unethical behavior in accounting as unethical practices come in different forms and different situations that might lead to unethical practices in accounting include are misleading
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Individual Project International Legal and Ethical Issues in Business American InterContinental University It is know that is anyone in the business world has legal obligations to keep their employees and customers safe. The first thing that I would do is call a meeting
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ethical issues and dilemmas in international business are rooted in the fact that political systems, law, economic development, and culture vary significantly from nation to nation. Consequently, what is considered normal practice in one nation may be considered unethical in others, resulting in bad reputations for UK businesses if found to be linked to business that would be reflected as unethical in the UK. It is important for a multi-national business to behave ethically in order to succeed because
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applied. Music producers consider their music their property and protect them from public use and public download. The law of property “establishes private exclusive rights in resources. It is through the law of property that individuals and business organizations can possess, use, and transfer their private resources” (Reed et al, 2005). “Intellectual property laws arose out of the common law, but they also reflect constitutional and statutory adoption. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution
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