EssaysForStudent.com - Free Essays, Term Papers & Book Notes
Search

Ethical Consumer Essays and Term Papers

Search

976 Essays on Ethical Consumer. Documents 776 - 800

Last update: August 13, 2014
  • Business Ethics

    Business Ethics

    I. ABSTRACT Without question "business ethics" is one of the hot topics of the day. Over the past months we have seen business after business charged with improper practices that violate commonly accepted ethical norms. This has led to a loss of confidence in corporate management, and has had severe economic consequences. Business ethics serves the important social function of integrating business and society, by promoting the legitimacy of business operations, through critical reflection. The

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 3,765 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethics at Work

    Ethics at Work

    Ethics at work Today’s society is governed through the implications of rules, legal restrictions that tell you if something is considered, in the eyes of society, to be right or wrong. All of these rules were created to uphold and maintain a ridged idea of ethical and moral values. For example the “10 commandments” which are thousands of years old, were created to teach ethical values, the difference between right and wrong. But who determines

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,616 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Ethics 2

    Ethics 2

    When examining this particular situation, I decided to look to previous Supreme Court cases as well as codes of ethics to determine the best solution. This situation is complicated in its dealings with confidential academic records and requires careful examination. There are many things for the editors to consider when deciding whether or not to print this story. Is it ethical to use the information in the package? In New York Times v. U.S.(1971)1, The

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 969 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Critical Review of Business Ethics Education

    Critical Review of Business Ethics Education

    Several cases of immoral practices in eminent companies such as Enron and WorldCom have raised the issues of the importance of having business ethics education in higher education institutions, in anticipation that it could prevent or diminish the unethical behaviors at workplaces. On the contrary, many disbelieve that certain values like business ethics and moral judgments for instance can not be taught. This paper addresses my view points on the research findings on business ethics

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,270 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Anna
  • Abortion and Kantian Ethics

    Abortion and Kantian Ethics

    Abortion is one of the most controversial ethical issues because it concerns the taking of a human life. It is not something to be taken lightly because it is the termination of what could, potentially, become a human being. There are very many ways of looking at abortion, which make it hard to decide whether or not you are for it. This paper looks at abortion from a Kantian perspective. I will first start by

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,780 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: marwa
  • Catholic Social Ethics - Ethiopa

    Catholic Social Ethics - Ethiopa

    Chan/Son 1 James Chan & Michael Son Fr. A. Fogarty, S.J. Catholic Social Ethics 5C 12 December 2005 Ethiopia, What a Country The dictionary states that a third world country is a developing nation in the midst of Africa, Asia, or also Latin America. The country of Ethiopia is described as a third world country due to its great poverty rate. This country has a peculiar land layout and is ranked 16th in the world

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 3,898 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Prganizational Ethics

    Prganizational Ethics

    Organizational Ethics Paper Requirements Does your employer pressure you to abandon your personal moral code of ethics? If so, how? What can you do to resist the pressure? My manager is very strict about ethics and conduct code probably because I work in the Compliance department. But As a benefits administrator, while processing an FMLA form, you become aware of a senior employee who is incurring huge medical expenses with a serious illness. You work

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 252 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Ethic, Literature

    Ethic, Literature

    eter Singer's article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, presents a strong view on the moral values which people all around the world today are giving to the global famine taking place these days. Singer tries to influence who ever reads this article to take action and provide relief for the increased suffering going on due to famine. In his article, he incorporates arguments to illustrate the moral importance that should be given to the suffering of

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 273 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethical Issue in Journalism

    Ethical Issue in Journalism

    As times change journalism becomes more and more competitive. Deadlines become tighter, the stories become bigger, and publications struggle to be the best. These factors put individual journalists under a great deal of stress. As a result, many journalists fabricate or plagiarize their stories in hope of not necessarily winning a Pulitzer, but in hope of meeting their deadlines and the demands of their readers. It is unfortunate that these unethical, and often illegal,

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 527 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: July
  • Ethics Awareness Inventory

    Ethics Awareness Inventory

    Case Study Assignment Robert Gardley Gen 480 Professor Constance Van Guilder November 1, 2006 1. Provide four to six assumptions held by Kelly; six to nine assumptions held by Pat; Two to three assumptions held by Cliff; two to three assumptions held by Chris. A. Kelly: Kelly assumes that because of his short staff she won’t have time for the new product development. He also makes the assumption that his department won’t have time

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,780 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Ethical Behavior

    Ethical Behavior

    Ethical Behavior As far as the article on virtual morality; I do not think that using your computer for personal use is unethical. Anymore than I believe using a company phone, or taking a smoke break, or even just a 5 minute walk away from your desk, your work, moment to yourself is unethical. Sometimes it’s necessary to take a few minutes away from what you are working on and do something different. Breaks from

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 779 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Personal Code of Ethics

    Personal Code of Ethics

    Ethics is defined as "moral rules or principles of behavior for deciding what is right and wrong" (Longman Dictionary of American English, p. 303). People have built their code of ethics based on their beliefs of what is right or wrong. People's ethics can be the ethics in their personal lives, academic environment, workplace, or their combination. As a student at University of Phoenix, I believe that my academic achievement will greatly depend on how

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: ha
  • Ebus 400 - Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Web Site Issues Paper

    Ebus 400 - Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Web Site Issues Paper

    Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Web Site Issues Paper University of Phoenix EBUS/400 May 8, 2007 Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Web Site Issues The Internet is a maturing and a consistently adapting entity that will survive on in perpetuity. This is why Team ponders the e-Business legal, Ethical and Regulatory Web site issues of business to business and business to consumer. Whatever is written and published online (and do not forget video, films, movies, and audio

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,538 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    Just what are ethics exactly? What is the difference between personal ethics, and professional ethics? Better yet why are they so important in a workplace environment? This is what will be discussed throughout this paper. If questioned, most people would say that ethics is the ability to know right from wrong, good from bad and moral from immoral. Unfortunately, although right the definition of ethics varies greatly depending on whom you question regarding the matter.

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,441 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Code of Ethics

    Code of Ethics

    Here at Parrot-dice Spas, Inc. we as a company, strive to conduct our business in a professional and in so doing have established this Code of Ethical Conduct, to be adhered to by all employees. It is highly advised that the Code is thoroughly read and understood by all employees on all levels. Conflicts of Interests Conflicts of interest include but are not limited to: 1. Outside job affiliations, moonlighting with competitive businesses, or

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 331 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: teresa
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    In the world of sales people there are always ethical decisions that have to be made. They range from telling the customer the right information or the information that they want to hear, or stealing sales from other co-workers and even to stealing money from the company by the means of fraud. Recently at ABC Cell phone provider there have been a strand of people put under investigation for fraud. Fraud is never taken lightly

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 779 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethical Negotiations

    Ethical Negotiations

    Abstract Negotiations take place everyday within the business arena. They are the foundation of conducting business between two parties; and they take many forms, ranging from simple to highly emotional and complex. When negotiations involve the very means to feeding one family, i.e. jobs, emotions can easily cloud good moral judgments. Complex issues, on the other hand, can include…… Most everyone states that they abide by some set of ethical standards. However, it is how

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,626 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Fatih
  • People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta) - Animal Rights, Human Abuse

    People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta) - Animal Rights, Human Abuse

    With over 850,000 active members, the animal rights organization People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has blossomed into an exceptionally powerful speech community. Their main goal is to enlighten others about the prominent existence of animal cruelty in the world, hoping to gain enough power to abolish it, or at least prevent it from happening as often as it does. PETA uses language as a tool of power, verbalizing its message through controversial ad

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,685 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Vika
  • Values and Ethics in a Global Setting

    Values and Ethics in a Global Setting

    Values and Ethics in a Global Setting – Outline Thesis: An individual can use their own personal values to reconcile their values in a global setting I. Reconciling Personal Values in a global setting a. Parental teachings b. What I have learned II. Reconciling Cultural Values in a global setting a. Growing up in other countries b. Bringing diversity to the plate III. Reconciling Organizational Values in a Global setting a. What does the company

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,001 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Kerry
  • Professional Values and Ethics

    Professional Values and Ethics

    Professional Values and Ethics GEN 200 February 1, 2010 Professional Values and Ethics This paper will focus on values and ethics and their relationship among career success. Values and Ethics will be defined and described how they differ. Values and ethics are important in one's personal and professional lives and are vital to any organization, team or group. Values and can be instilled from many different sources whether it is from parents, religion, school,

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,547 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: don
  • Internet Ethics

    Internet Ethics

    The dictionary describes ethics as Ў§the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligationЎЁ (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 2006). Even the dictionaryЎ¦s definition is not helpful in differentiating between moral and ethics. While the Internet is no longer a newborn, it is still an industry that is in its infancy. And like every baby, its first steps are tentative and unsure. Mistakes are made, falls are many, and the world

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 883 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    What do we mean when we use this term? It is easy to let this term become overused and fall into the ever expanding volume of the "trite" archives along with phrases like "family values" or "personal responsibility". Those phrases, along with so many others like them are great catch phrases because they conjure up pictures and tones of voice and feeling that are generally positive. However, there is one major flaw in this -

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • Kant Vs. Virtue Ethics

    Kant Vs. Virtue Ethics

    When we talk about whether or not a person is ethically right, we can look at the actions that he or she may partake in. These actions maybe studied in different situations such as the one that we were told to evaluate. While leaving the grocery store, one witnesses an old man struggling with his oxygen tank. Without thinking, you lift the tank and help the elderly man. This action is a kind gesture, but

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 829 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Victor
  • Ethics of Organ Transplants

    Ethics of Organ Transplants

    An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another for the purpose of replacing the recipient’s failing or damaged organ. Organ donors can be living or deceased. The sources of organ transplants can be from individuals over the age of 18 who indicate their desire to be an organ donor by signing a donor card or telling their family members. Relatives can also donate a deceased family

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 650 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Jack
  • Ethical Filter Worksheet

    Ethical Filter Worksheet

    ETHICAL FILTER WORKSHEET Ethical Filter Worksheet Student University of Phoenix Value Personal Source with Examples Justify the Value’s Position in the List. Include any challenges to employing these values consistently when making personal and organizational decisions. Honesty I work with sales representatives on a daily basis and I had representative purchase equipment on the customer’s behalf to supersede policy. Instead of telling the customer that they could not receive the equipment for free, the sales

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 838 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Mike