BUSINESS POLICY CLASS-
Part 1
1. Why do you think whistleblower payouts to informants, funded by the federal government due to the Federal False Claims Act, are becoming more and more common? Use examples and at least one resource to support your answer.
Question 1
Why should firms formulate and implement strategies from an environmental perspective?
Question 2
If you owned a small business, would you develop a code of business conduct? If yes, what variables would you include? If not, how would you ensure that your employees were following ethical business standards?
Question 3
How can firms ensure that their code of business ethics is read, understood, believed, remembered, and acted on rather than ignored?
Question 4
Discuss bribery. Would actions, such as politicians adding earmarks in legislation or pharmaceutical salespersons giving away drugs to physicians, constitute bribery? Identify three business activities that would constitute bribery and three actions that would not.
Question 5
What do you feel is the relationship between personal ethics and business ethics? Are they or should they be the same?
Part 2
Question 1
When comparing tornadoes and hurricanes, which do you consider more destructive and why? You might compare how they differ in size, speed, predictability, or damage. Have you ever experienced either? Describe your experience.
Question 2
In your own words, explain how air would circulate around the globe if the Earth were not rotating.
Question 3
Recall from your reading about air masses, and in your own words, explain what is creating the weather pattern in the this diagram
Question 4
In your own words, explain how wind forms. What two factors cause winds to deviate?
Question 5
Recall from your reading about air masses to answer: A warm front is predicted to come through your area tomorrow. What weather should you expect?
Question 6
Compare the characteristics (general weather, movement, etc.) of a cold front to a warm front. Explain why they exhibit different characteristics. What weather would you expect to encounter with each?