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Discuss the following theories/concepts: Utilitarianism, Rights and Justice, The Market System, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Kantianism, Egalitarian Theory
Assess the role of ethics and compliance in "amazon" financial environment.
1. Research issues and current laws about Affirmative Action hiring practices and reverse discrimination.
Among some of the ethical problems within the business realm include conflict of interest.
Does a potential conflict of interest exist if an executive decides to follow a social stakeholder rather than his employer, the stockholders?
Jolly Giant Company has two divisions, the Can Division and the Food Division. Food Division may purchase cans from the Can Division or from outside suppliers.
Crowe indicates that the sharing of these data will enable Bearings to determine a fair and equitable price for its products.
What are virtues? How might one apply virtue ethics to business situations? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the virtue approach?
Question: This solution provides the learner with an understanding of managements role in the area of employee empowement.
What are the similarities and differences in professional ethics and personal ethics? Provide an example for each.
How would you respond to a corporate decision to which you are ethically opposed? Provide a scenario in your response.
How should we resolve a conflict between our personal ethics and that of our employer?
If people can be persuaded by the ideas of another person, in your opinion who ultimately holds responsibility for the actions of the group:
Problem: I was wondering what you all think about the sentencing of Paris Hilton for driving on a suspended license.
Discuss how the Utilitarian arguments, Kantian arguments, and justice arguments address the problem of discrimination.
Problem: Recently, there was a breach of ethics by some graduating dental students.
It has been suggested that journalists are generally more liberal and CEO's are usually more conservative. Do you think this is true?
The company you work for has made a decision that - although legal - adversely affects the environment.
Do you think that businesses are more ethical after the passing of the Sarbanes Oxley Act?
Are ethics needed if we have laws to follow? How will they develop policies and procedures since ethics becomes the basis for developing them in first place?
Compare and contrast the Utilitarian and Kantian arguments for viewing privacy as a right. Note the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
You believe that he has become mentally incompetent in the last few hours and in that time he has rewritten his will.
Do you tell the truth and let the new company know that the worker is not competent, or do you withhold the whole truth and help the worker get the job?
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's great novel, Crime and Punishment, the main character plots and carries out the murder of an old woman
a graduating high school student was not permitted to walk in his graduation ceremony, because he had violated the dress code for the graduation ceremony.