Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Lateesha Grant Legal 500 February 12, 2014 Meredith Brasca PharmaCARE (We CARE about YOUR health®)\is one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies, enjoying a reputation as a caring, ethical and well-run company that produced high-quality products that saved millions of lives and enhanced the quality of life for millions of others. The company offers free and discounted drugs to low-income
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Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine Due Week 3 and worth 200 points As a manager and supervisor of an accounting department, discuss the following issues related to the employment-at-will doctrine and liability of an employer based on actions and responses to the employee’s behavior and actions. Jennifer, a recent graduate, has recently been hired by your accounting firm out of college. Upon being hired, she engages in a number of different behaviors that need your attention. * For each
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Abstract The term employment at will is a familiar one for most employees, especially for management staff. It is often included in job offer letter, in policies, and during discussion pertaining to involuntary termination. It is a legal doctrine that states that an employment relationship may be terminated by the employer or employee at any time and for any or no reason. This paper will discuss the liability of an employer based on actions and responses to the employee's behavior and actions
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|Course Title | Health & Social Care | |Unit Title |11 – Safeguarding Adults & Promoting Independence | |Level |3 | |Part Unit
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine By Carla Anderson Professor Shaun Koenig Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance November 9, 2014 Employment-At-Will is a legal doctrine which gives employers broad discretion to fire employees for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all (Halbert, & Ingulli, 2012). With employment-at-will, an employer has the right to change its policies or terms of employment without notice. Therefore, benefits and wages can be modified devoid of notice. Understanding
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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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According to our online textbook, ethics deals with well-based standards of how people ought to act. It concerns for what is right and what is wrong, which is good and which is bad. Ethics have also addressed questions such as: How should I live my life? What kind of person I should turn out to be? What standards or principles should I live by? In the accounting field, the ethical standards are influenced by the practices of those the people working in this field like state laws, the board of accountancy’s
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BIBLOGRAPHY Aiken, Michael; Hage, Jerald. December 1968. Organizational Interdependence and Intra- Organizational Structure. American Sociological Review. Vol. 33 Issue 6, p912-930. Bhargava, Shivganesh; Sinha, Beena. April 1992. Prediction of Organizational Effectiveness as a Function of Type Of Organizational Structure. Journal of Social Psychology. Vol. 132 Issue 2, p223-231. Brossard, Michel; Maurice, Marc. Spring 1976. Is there a Universal Model of Organizational Structure
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The refusal to participate in illegal activity, the employee’s refusal to forsake the performance of an important public duty or obligation, the employee’s refusal to forego the exercise of a job-related legal right or privilege, the employee’s “whistleblowing” activity or other conduct exposing the employers wrongdoing, and the employee’s performance of an act that public policy would encourage under circumstances where retaliatory discharge is supported by evidence of employers bad faith, malice,
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Student ID: 51450992 Exam: 412714RR - ASSESSING PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPING EMPLOYEESS When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers, click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam, click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing
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