Influence peddling

Managing the Risks of Global, Bribery in Business Case Analysis for ACCT 6390 – Spring 2016 Ebraheem Almakrami The issue of bribery has long been considered unethical and unfair. This classification led people to invest in finding ways to justify bribery differently based on their culture. Bribery could be descried as gifts in many countries like Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In other parts of the world like Brazil, Russia, India, and China, bribery is looked at as business expense. The issue of bribery is complicated and requires clear distinction between right and wrong, between gifts and bribes. In Business, there are three main ethical issues related to bribery. Added costs of business is the first issue, where businesses are forced to pay bribes to conduct business in certain places. For example, Walmart paid government officials to get the necessary licenses to operate in Mexico. Walmart paid these bribes to get preferred and fast services from these Mexican government officials. Another example is RAE Systems Chinese joint ventures. The company paid some officials to secure a 3 million contract. Moreover, companies have used bribes to stop their competitors from competing in new markets. In China, Coca Cola paid some officials to get an exclusive deal for three years to sell in Chinese markets and keep Pepsi out. The issue of gaining advantage for a bribe is clear where the stakeholders are government officials, companies and their competitors.…

advertisements, they are used as a sex object and for appeal or shown as a “good housewife.” “Good” mothers on TV or in advertisements were seen as “true princesses” (Douglas 44). They “never complained, smiled a real lot, were constantly good-natured, and never expected anything from anyone” (Douglas 44). In today’s society, the “good” wife works and is still expected to fulfill the duties listed above. Using women in advertisements started early in the 20th century and has progressed over…

powerful sources of information. This allows news outlets to easily access and present information from a variety of competing perspectives (Bennet, 2007). The two-step model of mass communication naturally implies that the flow of communication from media outlets to their audience will have some type of effect. An example of this can be seen in the results of Iyengar’s (1991) experiments on episodic and thematic framing. The way the problem is presented influences who viewers hold responsible…

If the parent is supportive of the child and keeps encouraging him or her, the child will have a high sense of confidence. When the student gets good grades, it will increase their confidence that shall influence their self-image. How his friends view a person will also have an impact on his self-image. If these three groups take active roles, then the child will not turn to the mass media to build his self-image. Moreover, the media has a small role to play in inducing eating disorders. Imagine…

Introduction The 20th century through to the 21st century has seen significant changes in how the mass media has evolved. This evolution, due to the advent of emerging sources of information verification, has also questioned the strength of the early media effects on the mass media audience. Briggs and Burke (2005) define the early strong media as newspapers, magazines, radio and television (TV). The then mass media (press, radio and film) in the 1920s and 1930s were willed with considerable…

Servant leaders rely more on persuasion than power and authority to motivate employees to do things (Swearingen & Liberman, 2004). The power of persuasion allows employees to accomplish tasks because they want to rather than because they have to. When leaders use power to force employees to do things, it often ruins their relationship and causes employee rebellion (Hunter, 2012). A leader who uses power to influence employees is not likely to have the employee’s respect. They will eventually…

At this state, leaders tend to seek for respect, trust, and admiration from their employers by staying through difficult moments with them. Leaders influence their followers by forgetting themselves and put their heart into their actions towards the employers. They are the role models for the whole company to follow. Leaders should make their employers feel valuable and motivated by helping the employers to overcome their weak…

upon men who frequently go to this restaurant to see the girls as well as eat the food (Rasmusson, 2011). When thinking of what it takes to become a Hooter girl, one may automatically think that such a person should have big breasts, be beautiful, and obtain long hair that’s worn down (Rasmusson, 2011). Hooter girls symbolizes what would be considered the girl next door (Hooters, 1983). A social influence for purchasing behaviors reflects on friends, family, and relatives as it affects and…

from the people they reach out to follow and that they can no longer find pictures based on hashtags or keywords. I am interested in this topic because I have worked with kids since I was in 7th grade, I was a gymnastics coach, summer camp counselor, and I worked at my sunday school teaching art. I know a lot of kids, girls and boys, and it kills me to think that something they use for fun, such as Instagram, can have such a negative effect on them. Through social media sites, eating disorders…

3. POLITICAL IMPORTANCE Media stories carry mil¬lions of people, in all life spheres, to the military and political fronts. They provide them with significant place for presidential ceremonies or football contests. They enable the public to socialize among themselves by sharing political experiences, exchanging information about particular political leaders, such as watching political discussions, parliament debates or senatorial investigations. Such involvements thus form public opinions about…