... . Each of these can be considered an evolutionary step forward from the previous theory in recognising and incorporating notions of corporate social and environmental responsibility. The following sections offer a brief review of these theories as they pertain to the current discussion. Stockholder (Classic) Theory The "traditional" or "classic" view of business - that the sole purpose of corporations is to maximise profits ... creates what he considers to be the inherent fairness and efficiency of the market place in a so-called "free society." In discussing social responsibility, Fried...

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... of litigation later. A major intent of well-designed personnel policies is to ensure ethical treatment of employees, e.g., in matters of hiring, evaluating, disciplining, firing, etc. Drake and Drake (California Management Review, V16, pp. 107-123) note that "an employer can be subject to suit for breach of contract for failure to comply with any promise it made, so the gap between ... ...

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... . The reason for that is the promotion of trickery, duplicity, hypocrisy, spying and other dirty methods for gaining more power that is what Machiavelli describes in his book "the Prince". In his book the renaissance thinker clearly expresses his point of view in terms of politics by stating: "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot ... ...

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... on the C5-A military transport plane. As a result he was spied on and fired. But after grueling court battles, he restored his job. A book from the library titled "Whistleblowing Research", tends to portray or label whisteblowers. In the book the author depicts the characteristics and personality traits you will find he claims in a whistleblower. For example, one assumption was whistleblowers are strong ... ...

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... a mix of bad corporate ethics, lack of corporate governance, manipulated accounting guidelines, and most importantly a large conflict of interest (Jickling). Enron created Special Purpose Entities (SPE's), otherwise known as off-book partnerships, and the executives used these partnerships to hide their large amounts of debt as well as record profits by taking out large loans in the SPE's name to purchase ... ...

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... is clear and very minimal information about me can be accessed through use of security measures and in all ways try to limit my interaction with the client through face book bearing in mind that our relationship should not be social in nature and should have boundaries. Another form of reacting to this problem is by accepting the request and still ... ...

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... have officially become second-largest corporation in the world, in terms of sales. "Enron's reported revenue was based on its exploitation of a loophole in accounting rules that allowed it to book revenue from huge energy-derivative contracts at their gross value, not their net value as is done with other securities transactions." (Forbes, 1/15/02) Basically instead of reporting the spread ... ...

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... in The Power of Ethical Management co-authored by Kenneth Blanchard and authored by Norman Vincent Peale. The team addressed the three ethics questions and responded as follows: In the book, The Power of Ethical Management written by Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale there is a section on the "Ethics Check Questions." The "Ethics Check Questions" are three questions that we ... ...

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