Should an investor put up a resort on an area, then the local community should be the first to benefit from such a move. ... First, it is unethical for employees to steal from their employer. ... It is unfortunate that some employees fail to give a clear job description to their workers and when a problem occurs then the blame is placed on the wrong person. For instance, it is wrong to accuse a person who is responsible of collecting cash and depositing it for failing to audit the accounts properly. ...

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For the sake of keeping the argument concise it will be maintained that business in this essay is referring to corporations, seeing that in sole proprietorships what is done with those businesses is also the will of the person, in other words the business is the person and vice versa. To understand where in the realm of business a good business should lie one must first see the ends of the spectrum. ... Should it be assumed that because of that word companies should be paying wages sufficient enough for the person to be buying energy drinks such as red bull as well? ...

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Enron may have met the first criteria because its transactions were apparently recorded in technical compliance with GAAP. ... First, many of the assets Enron transferred to SPE's were not producing enough income to justify their cost as recorded on the balance sheet. ... Yes, I think no person is worth millions of dollars a year no matter what their position in the company. ... The Enron situation has brought a new perspective to job security and I believe individuals are now aware that they are more a number than a person. ... Enron's demise was not caused buy any one person. ...

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It holds the idea that a person, by virtue of being a person, possesses intrinsic moral right. The first formulation of ethical behavior is that we should act in such a way that we would have all moral agents act. ...

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The first step the Stump Water management team will need to do is create a purpose or vision for the merger of the two companies. ... According to author Andrew Dubrin of the text, Applying Psychology and Individual and Organizational Effectiveness, "A value refers to the importance a person attaches to something. " [ ] People are not born with a particular set of values, [ ], values are learned in the process of growing up- many by age 4" (38). ...

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"Those responsible for business enterprises are responsible to society for the economic and ecological effects of their operations.[217] They have an obligation to consider the good of persons and not only the increase of profits. ... -Catechism of the Catholic Church The first step toward examining business outlook towards morality is to recognize that all business decisions entail moral decisions. ...

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In other words, the restructuring of the loan allowed for private investors of Solyndra to have the first chance to recover their assets once the company was liquidated. ... He also says that when a person is not spending their own money, they are not as careful in how they choose to spend it (Ross, 2011). ...

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The introduction of large companies with limited relationships and sensitivity to the areas where they operate increased the development of formal ethics regimes (Wikipedia.org) Theoretical Approaches to Business Ethics The Utilitarian Rule Utilitarian rule is that an ethical decision is a decision that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people To decide which is the most ethical course of business action, managers should first consider how different possible courses of business action would benefit or harm different stakeholders They should then choose the course of acti...

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The first mitigating factor involved in the National Semiconductor case is the uncertainty, on the part of the employees, on the duties that they were assigned. ... Although working under these conditions does not fully excuse an employees from moral fault, it does start the divulging process for determining the order of the chain of command of superiors and it helps to narrow down the person or department that issued the original request for the unethical acts. ...

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The company has a long, documented history of social responsibility; Starbucks published its first Corporate Social Responsibility Annual Report in 2002 (Reis, 2009). ... The company's slogan, "One person, one cup, one neighborhood at a time, "envelops the ideas of Starbucks' corporate social responsibility policy (2013). ...

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