activities under the control of their employers. According to Halbert and Ingulli, “What unites all whistleblowing is the urge to bring a disturbing situation to light, the urge to bring about some corrective change” (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012, p. 46). This brings us to the concept highlighted in Chapter 2, loyalty to the company, and their views on employment-at-will and their rules for and against whistleblowing. Looking at CVS’ policies and Caremark’s Code of Conduct, and I quote, “A provision of the
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How Personal Can Ethics Get? Organizational Behavior Assignment #1 HOW DOES PERSONAL DIFFERENCES AND PREFERENCES IMPACT ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS With a society that has built its origins on diversity (melting pot), come many challenges when it pertains to handling diversity within an organization. People and their personal preferences and individual differences are at conflict on a daily basis. How a person was raised, his or her religion, and his/her personal morals are constantly being
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Major Essay Engineering is a very diverse field consisting of many different disciplines, methods of education and cultures. What is similar across all disciplines of engineering is the desire to design and create technology that will benefit humanity. In particular civil engineering is concerned with the design and construction of large scale infrastructure such as dams, bridges, roads and railway. Mostly all civil engineering projects have a significant impact on the public and the environment
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1. Researched instance of whistleblowing in one (1) publicly traded company. Playboy Enterprises Inc. previous Controller Catherine Zulfer occupation was ended since she protested a shameful (illegal) guideline by Playboy's CFO to collect $1 million in optional rewards for officials when those rewards had not been endorsed by Playboy's Board. A jury concurred and found that Playboy unlawfully struck back against Zulfer by terminating her for her secured reports under SOX furthermore fired her, violating
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Assignment 3: Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility Research Paper Due Week 6 and worth 250 points Dr. Do Right has recently been hired as the President of the “Universal Human Care Hospital”, where he oversees all departments with over 5,000 employees and over 20,000 patients at the medical facility. He has been provided with a broad set of duties and oversight of numerous departments, including business development, customer services, human resources, legal, patient advocacy, to name
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Whistleblowing and Sarbanes- Oxley Jordan Holloway Lateffa Muhammad Law, Ethics and Corp. Governance 10-25-15 Characteristics of a whistleblower are being uninterested in altering their behavior. They also allow their own attitudes and beliefs to guide them. They are also often very well educated and usually hold professional positions. A Whistleblower is a person who provides information that usually leads to an investigation and then results in the loss of a job for some and the
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Article Review: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 It is unfortunate that many increasing standards come after a failure in the system. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a primary example. The public scandals of Enron, Tyco and WorldCom were quickly followed with this act. It brought great change throughout the world of business. The Act was enacted in July of 2002 and co-authored by U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act gave more confidence
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A selection of rough diamonds from Voorspoed Mine ACTION ETHICS Protecting THE INTEGRITY OF DIAMONDS 33 ETHICS OUR COMMITMENT TO MEETING THE highest ethical standards IS FOUNDED ON OUR aspiration TO LIVE UP TO THE unique qualities OF DIAMONDS. THE BEHAVIOUR OF OUR EMPLOYEES, THE ROBUSTNESS OF OUR COMPLIANCE SYSTEMS and our commitment to transparency maintain stakeholder confidence in our business and play a key role in upholding ‘diamond equity’. De Beers aims to meet or exceed all applicable
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Bribery Scandal Case Summary This case covers the scandal at Siemens AG in 2006, 2007 which consisted of employees bribing foreign officials. Siemens employees made slush funds specifically for the purpose of gaining an unfair advantage to win contracts. They also were accused of bribing officials of the labor board in return they would give support for Siemen’s policies. Siemens office in Germany was raided and an official investigation was started. In other countries they were investigated subsequently
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Global Business Cultural Analysis for Croatia Camilla J. Johnson International Business 604 Liberty University 10 May 2013 Dr. Maria Marin Abstract Croatia is a country that has encountered so much devastation in the past with multiple wars. The wars have caused Croatia to fall behind in the economy and also in their infrastructure. They are currently trying to rebuild their country and bring it out of recession. Croatia will become a part of the European Union on 1 July 2013, which will
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