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  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Ethics in Business - From a business perspective, working under government contracts can be a very lucrative proposition. In general, a stream of orders keep coming in, revenue increases and the company grows in the aggregate. The obvious downfalls to working in this manner is both higher quality expected as well as the extensive research and documentation required for government contracts. If a part fails to perform correctly it can cause minor glitches as well

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    Essay Length: 2,345 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Business Ethics Ethics in Business From a business perspective, working under government contracts can be a very lucrative proposition. In general, a stream of orders keep coming in, revenue increases and the company grows in the aggregate. The obvious downfalls to working in this manner is both higher quality expected as well as the extensive research and documentation required for government contracts. If a part fails to perform correctly it can cause minor glitches as

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    Essay Length: 2,347 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • The Campbell Soup Company - Business Ethics Dilema

    The Campbell Soup Company - Business Ethics Dilema

    Campbell Soup Dilemma Introduction The Campbell Soup Company wanted to advertise the solid ingredients in its soup. However, the solid ingredients sank to the bottom of the bowl and could not be photographed. In order to remedy this predicament, the advertising group placed marbles in the bowl before adding the soup. Thus the vegetables rested on the top, giving the appearance of thick soup. I will use criteria from six ethical traditions/theories to express my

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    Essay Length: 2,100 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Describe an ethical problem you have encountered or might encounter in your workplace. How would you approach the problem and reach a decision to solve it? Business ethics defines how a company integrates core values - such as honesty, trust, respect, and fairness - into its policies, practices, and decision-making. Business ethics also involves a company's compliance with legal standards and observance to internal rules and regulations. Business ethics is, in part, the attempt

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    Essay Length: 1,773 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • Business Ethics: A False Hope

    Business Ethics: A False Hope

    Business Ethics: Midterm paper The business world has always relied heavily on contractual agreements while conducting business. These contracts while written in ink, are set in stone. Once your business partner signs his/her name on the dotted line the pact has been sealed and nothing else needs to be said. But what happens when you take away the physical contractual element and everything is agreed upon through one's word? The world of business ethics is

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    Essay Length: 1,720 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: regina
  • Business Ethic

    Business Ethic

    Part I. Case Development Working in Human resources can make it very difficult to meet friends at work. Many Human resources professionals avoid being too friendly with employees outside of the department and there are employees who keep their distance from being too friendly with Human resources personnel. I did break this rule several years ago when we hired a new employee. This employee and I hit it off immediately and we became very good

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    Essay Length: 2,730 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Top
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Business Ethics Ethics in Business From a business perspective, working under government contracts can be a very lucrative proposition. In general, a stream of orders keep coming in, revenue increases and the company grows in the aggregate. The obvious downfalls to working in this manner is both higher quality expected as well as the extensive research and documentation required for government contracts. If a part fails to perform correctly it can cause minor glitches as

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    Essay Length: 2,347 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • "wall Street" the Business Ethics in the Movie

    "wall Street" the Business Ethics in the Movie

    Wall Street The movie “Wall Street” is a representation of poor morals and dissapointing business ethics in the popular world of business. This movie shows the negative effects that bad business morals can have on society. The two main characters are Bud Fox played by Charlie Sheen and Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas. Bud Fox is a young stockbroker who comes from an honest working-class family but on the other hand, Gordon Gekko

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    Essay Length: 936 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Wikipedia defines ethics as “elements of professional practice that are part of dispute resolution or which have some great potential for: bodily harm, urban planning, medicine, law, politics and theories of civics (Wikipedia, 2005).” Today when a person turns on the news all they hear about is the ethical crises making the headlines. Companies have to protect themselves from ethical issues like embezzlement, fraud, or misuse of company products or services. An ethics statement explains

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    Essay Length: 720 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Business Ethics and Religion

    Business Ethics and Religion

    Business Ethics 2 Business ethics is certain behavior that a business follows when dealing with people in the business world. Many businesses have made a bad reputation for themselves because they are only interested in making money, an example of this would be the Enron case. Many of today’s top corporations have been fined a lot of money for unethical decisions. Ethical behavior in business improves the well-being of the individuals because it promotes things

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    Essay Length: 1,311 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    I own a local business that provides Internet access to individuals and businesses, my business is one of four businesses in the local market that provide internet access to both individuals and businesses. Each of the four businesses charges the same price of twelve dollars a month for unlimited dial up services. My businesses breakeven price is seven dollars per customer, so no matter what I must charge it least seven dollars per package in

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    Essay Length: 1,769 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Jack
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Introduction Background The literature being studied is an article written by Hellen O’ Sullivan, the Director of Scientific Methods Australia. The article entitled “Business ethics are set to set to stage a comeback” was published on the th page of The Australian Financial Review on the 6th February 1990. Literature Review Basically, the article discussed several important issues about business ethics. One of the most prominent was the remark she made about business ethics making

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    Essay Length: 881 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Bred
  • Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? Business Ethics

    Why Should My Conscience Bother Me? Business Ethics

    To say that I was surprised by the content of this article would be a dramatic understatement. In a day an age when America is at war I was sad to see that a company would place the bottom line before the safety of American soldiers. In 1967 the B.F. Goodrich Co. made a bid to produce four disk brakes for the LTV Aerospace Co. However, in order to receive the bid Goodrich had

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Max
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    I would like to discuss the normative ethics pertaining to the affair committed by Boeing corporate executive Mr. Stonecipher, and an unknown female executive, and whether he should have been forced to resign. Widespread corporate scandals of the last decade have heightened public awareness about self-dealing and other conflicts of interest in the corporate context. Congress responded by enacting federal legislation mandating corporate accountability and the formalization of policies governing business ethics in public

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    Essay Length: 934 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Yan
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Describe an ethical problem you have encountered or might encounter in your workplace. How would you approach the problem and reach a decision to solve it? Business ethics defines how a company integrates core values - such as honesty, trust, respect, and fairness - into its policies, practices, and decision-making. Business ethics is, in part, the attempt to think clearly and deeply about ethical issues in business and to arrive at conclusions that are

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    Essay Length: 714 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Thesis Ethics are the rules or moral principles that individuals or group of individuals agree on and use as aspiration goals (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2003). Businesses that enforce and abide clear ethical standards or ethical code of conduct create ethical working environment. Business’s ethical working environment creates better reputation that brings more trust and profit from clients and dedication from employees. Companies that operate unethically often are not successful in a long run, they

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    Essay Length: 1,320 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Max
  • Business Ethics in the Chinese Context

    Business Ethics in the Chinese Context

    Stephan Rothlin, general secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing, expressed confidence that there has been real progress on the climate for business ethics in China over the past two years. Rothlin updated the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership in January on the situation in China since his last visit two years ago. He cited movement in the following areas: Worker Rights and Labor Standards China's new

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    Essay Length: 602 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Zero Tolerance and Business Ethics

    Zero Tolerance and Business Ethics

    One size never fits all Sometimes we are so mired in technicalities that we lose touch with the basics. Before we scrutinize the situation, let us remind ourselves of some fundamentals that constituted our current policy. Yes, there was an unfortunate incident where an armed man stormed into the office premises with demands that lead to general discomfort of all employees. The HR department then formulated the “Zero Tolerance” policy for Applied Devices. A comfort

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    Essay Length: 1,522 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Max
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Ethics Question: Some argue that aggressively investing in emerging economies is not only economically beneficial, but also highly ethical because it may potentially lift many people out of poverty. However, others caution that in the absence of reasonable hopes of decent profits, rushing to emerging economies is reckless. How would you participate in this debate? As a free-market economic skeptic, prior to my readings, I felt that investing in emerging markets is more self serving

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    Essay Length: 522 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    1. The creation of a structure, formed by two tiers, in many modern corporations, is a phenomenon that should bother not only the employees belonging in the second tier (low-paid contract workers, part-time or temporary), but also the employees of the upper tier (elite workers, enjoy best pay and benefits). The reason is very simple: a company can spread the use of under-paid workers into job categories and departments once reserved for higher-paid workers. The

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: David
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Many people shop everyday without really thinking about where the products they are buying came from, how they were made, and who made them. If they were to find out that many of the products at these stores were made by people working under harsh and unsafe conditions for only pennies per hour, would they still shop there? Wal-Mart is a prime example of this. This is why I believe it is wrong to shop

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Walmart Business Ethics

    Walmart Business Ethics

    Wal-Mart Unethical Business Practices - Wal-Mart, the big giant, the place where a lot of people usually do their shopping for the low prices and the variety of products were founded by Sam Walton. Walton was an entrepreneur with an innovative vision started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. In fact, Wal-Mart is considered to be the biggest company in the U.S. and it has

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    Essay Length: 2,034 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Max
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    What is Business Ethics? Business ethics is exactly the same as normal ethics, and that knows what is right or wrong, and learning what is right and what is wrong in a business environment. Then doing the right thing, but "the right thing" is not as straightforward as explained in many business ethics books. Most ethical dilemmas in the workplace are not simply a matter of "Should she steal from him?" or "Should he lie

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    Essay Length: 2,465 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    Kmart has five competitors which are Wal-Mart, Sears, Target, Kohl’s, and JC Penny. Each of Kmart’s competitors has different business competitive strategies, mainly focus on low-cost strategy and differentiation strategy. Firstly, Wal-Mart which applied the lowest costs (low prices) used the cost leader ships strategy which is a every-day-low-pricing (EDLP) strategy that aims at the board mass market and requires �aggressive construction of efficient-scale facilities, vigorous pursuit of cost reductions from experience, tight cost and

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    Essay Length: 779 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Anna
  • Business Ethics and Mba

    Business Ethics and Mba

    In the world that I come from, socialism was the rule of the day until fairly recently. Among other things, my country looked upon private enterprise with a high degree of suspicion for which it has since been duly discredited. One central theme was suspicion about the moral aspects of business. Probably with some justification! For instance, I was grieved to learn that several credit card companies had appointed local mafias to collect unpaid bills.

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    Essay Length: 402 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Tasha

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