Business ethics

Business Ethics and Operational Strategy Ethics is not a new subject in the business world. Ethics has been into business implementation for over hundred years. They act more like a set of standards that needs to be addressed while doing business, with the development and growth of the industry, companies are showing their concern about their corporate responsibility. There have been lots of debates on the issues about poor eminence among the workers and the responsibility of the employer…

I will now outline Albert Z. Carr’s arguments showing how the business world follows game ethics rather than the ethics used in an individual’s private life. In his essay, Carr uses “the analogy of the criminal court, where the criminal is not expected to tell the truth when he pleads “not guilty”” (Carr, 1968, p.400) and how the job of the defendant’s attorney is get his client off, not reveal the truth” (Carr, 1968, p.400). The defendant not expected to tell the truth due to the fact that if…

Just Business by Alexander Hill Book Review Just Business Christian Ethics for the Marketplace. By Alexander Hill: Intervarsity Press, 2008, 276 pp; $14.95. Niquitha M. Dawson Alexander Hill’s Just Business is the first book that I have read that is based on Christian Ethics for Business. In Just Business Hill poses the question “Is A Christian Ethic Possible in Business?” (p.12) Hill gives us a base to support the application of Christian values and ethics in decision making in business. With…

negative search led to another distasteful disappointment, fueling her curiosity of the underlying ethics of this corporation, allowing other corporations to sink at their expense. As a matter of fact, these reasoning skills, better known as critical thinking, are sought by businesses (Kubasek, Brennan, & Browne, 2015, p. 2). Ramona was equipped with superior knowledge of what constitutes proper business practices, yet all too soon in her completion her MBA degree she was seeing first-hand…

problem of balancing work and private life is addressed. In this case, the issue of Josh’s prioritization of his family, mental and physical health, over devoting his life to working can be justified through care ethics. In the “Ethics of Care as Moral Theory,” it states that “the ethics of care is on the compelling moral salience of attending to and meeting the need of the particular others for whom you take responsibility (10). This means that in Josh’s case, he has the moral need not only to…

1. I think the situation is an ethical dilemma because the leading candidate is the best candidate, but he is not a trustworthy person based on the writing service that he provides to other students. It is obviously that offering term papers for students is not the right thing to do. The service is ruining other students’ creativity and the purpose of education. Imagine if everyone buys and sells term papers, then no one should go to the library and spend hours to research and write papers…

Introduction and situational analysis In August 1970 Ford introduced the Pinto. According to Mark Dowie; “Iacocca argued forcefully that Volkswagen and the Japanese were going to capture the entire American subcompact market unless Ford put out its alternative to the VW Beetle (Dowie p.1) So to keep up with the Japanese; Iacocca ordered the designed of the Pinto. He did not want to wait he wanted the cars ready in 1971. Since the engineer was on a short deadline, some of the cars parts were made…

solve the problem she can take some additional courses of action. First, Mia should discuss this issue with her supervisor, Ted. He will be able to help solve the problem by taking the appropriate courses of action. Second, Mia should contact an IMA Ethics Counselor to review other possible solutions and get a better understanding of these solutions. Finally, she should contact her attorney about the ethical problem. The attorney will be able to advise her on legal obligations and represent her…

always treat both yourself and other people as ends in themselves, and never only as a means to an end” (Quinn, 68). In this case O’Connor vs. Uber Technologies, the formulations of Kantianism display some flaws in Uber’s ideas and plans for its business. The Kantian formulation of treating people as ends only and never as means to an end is contradicted by Uber’s ideas with keeping their drivers as private contractors. By keeping drivers as contractors, Uber is withholding employee benefits.…

Hannah for her university lectures. As Hannah purchased the product for $2000 on the assurance that the product would do as she needed Hannah has the right to claim remedies from Bolt. The ACL is in place to protect consumers and to avoid unfair business practices. As Bolt is an Australian company, they fall under the ACL and therefore must abide by the guarantees. The fact that Bolt has stated to their customers that they are not bound by the guarantees of the ACL is a huge contravention of the…