Research Methods and Ethics As we all know, research is a quintessential necessity for the field of criminal justice. Without valid research, a lot of the grants and government money that is used to fund a lot of public policy programs would not exist. When it comes to research, it is important to indicate the importance of ethics. When conducting studies and research practices every researcher strives to achieve valid results. Validity is important in research methods because it basically motivates
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Delgado | |Module: |Activity: | |1 |Unethical Business | |Date: February 12, 2015 | |Bibliography:
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unlawfully were confirmed, giving sanction to the unethical nature of his behaviour. Henderson describes that illegal behaviour will not be deemed unethical when the legal system, accounting profession and society all agree upon the same moral assumption (p 944, 2011). Committing fraud is against the law, which is socially unethical as it is legally unethical. In this case however, the accounting profession challenges the acceptable accounting practices undertaken at CA, leading to the result of Richards’
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Running head: CAUSE OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNETHICAL BUSINESS THAT LED TO IT Final Paper James Smith Hodges University GEB/PAD 6376 Dr. Forrer Week Due: 14 Due: 08/14/2011 Submitted: 08/10/2011 INTRODUCTION (Part 1) Why has the unemployment rate been above 12 percent for the last several years? Why have so many prior successful businesses closed in the
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ethical issues, to provide a mechanism for the reporting of unethical or unlawful conduct, and to help maintain a culture of honesty and accountability.” (Sirius XM) Naturally there is a lengthy list of practices/employees covered under the Code of Ethics so we did a bit of research to find out if the company had any breaches in this Code or if they were solid on their resolve to stay one hundred percent ethical in all their business practices. Right off the bat we are going to look at the Employee
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A Literature Review of Unethical Behavior of Sales Agents Marilia Gabriela Vieira De Melo Franklin Pierce University Table of Contents Introduction ………………………………………………………………………… Introduction Business ethics has many issues that are relevant in many aspects of business. This type of behavior begins mostly because of the relationship between the salesperson and the buyer or buying organization. That relationship can be led by a great ethical attitude which will create a nice environment and
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Florence, South Carolina Shima N. Clarke, Ph.D., PE Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Over the course of history, the construction industry has been greatly affected by the effects of unethical practices made by owners, contractors and subcontractors. This study examines those practices, known as bid shopping, and its effects on the private sector of the construction industry. Bid shopping is primarily used by contractors and subcontractors to gain an unfair advantage over their clients
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Business Research Ethics Paper Wayne Bell University of Phoenix RES/351 Business Research Robert Caldwell July 24, 2015 The Goldman Sachs Case When we think of the word ethics, we think of rules and regulations to keep us honest or to know the difference between right and wrong. Another way of defining ‘ethics’ focuses on the disciplines that study standards of conduct, such as philosophy, theology, law, psychology, or sociology”
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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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Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis Damon Jones ACC/291 December 11 2013 Harri Eloranta Effect of Unethical Behavior Article Analysis The purpose of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is to restore public confidence in both public accounting and publicly traded securities as well as promote better ethical business practices through greater executive awareness and accountability (Siegel, Franz, & O'Shaughnessy, 2010). In the 1990s, many big companies had misleading and
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