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  • Code of Ethics

    Code of Ethics

    The case I am analyzing is about David Wittig, the former Westar Energy chief executive. He has been convicted of looting the utility. In a ruling last Tuesday, January 3rd, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson upheld the majority of the Kansas City, Kansas jury's decision in September requiring Wittig to forfeit millions of dollars in stock, insurance payments, incentive bonuses and other assets tied to his crime. But Robinson said that the government failed to

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    Essay Length: 399 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Atonement Ethics

    Atonement Ethics

    Atonement is to compensate, amend or satisfy a wrong. Briony is the one responsible for the wrong act that needs atoning. A lot was running through this thirteen year old mind before setting out with this act. Firstly, she witnessed what seemed to her as sexual apprehension between her sister, Cecilia, and Robbie at a water fountain outside her window. After seeing her sister stripped down to her underwear, she misunderstood this as aggression on

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    Essay Length: 487 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Environmental Ethics

    Environmental Ethics

    Taylor Taylor’s view is that the actions of humans impact everything living on this planet. He thinks that this life-centered approach is very important to take because, “…all living things, not just humans, have inherent worth.” There is no doubt that human beings are the superior beings of the Earth. I believe it is this superiority that has lead people to take a human-centered view when it comes to environmental ethics. To adopt Taylor’s

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    Essay Length: 767 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethics in Information Technology

    Ethics in Information Technology

    Are the ethical decisions that a technology user must make fundamentally different than those facing the ordinary person? No, because it is difficult to resolve competing interests no matter what the nature of action or behavior is contemplated. Is the existence of competing interests’ reason enough to impose a set of rules, or codes of conduct, within the technology environment? Unfortunately, the large number of activities, and their complex nature, conducted by information technology professionals,

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Monika
  • Ethics Article Review

    Ethics Article Review

    The CPA firm; a necessary audit for today’s small businesses. A Certified Public Accountant is responsible for auditing and income tax work for their clients. (Myers, 2005) Over the years the environment has changed, but the most significant change of all was the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, this federal law established the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. This

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    Essay Length: 278 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Steve
  • What Roles Do Ethics and Power Play in Journalism?

    What Roles Do Ethics and Power Play in Journalism?

    What Roles Do Ethics and Power Play in Journalism? For the most part, journalists have power that can hurt, instead of help citizen autonomy. The ways journalists treat their subjects and sources have generated much concern. The ethics of these two endeavors share much in common, because both use people in various ways to reach each others goals. The well-developed guidelines in research designed to protect research participants’ autonomy, to guard against needless deception, and

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    Essay Length: 1,450 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Fonta
  • It Ethics

    It Ethics

    Business Ethics Most companies ought to have an IT department. This appears to be an obvious observation. However, it is worth recognizing that, in the memories of more than half the working population of the United States, a company department organized solely around information technology was unheard of. The IT department has evolved from a narrowly focused data processing element of the accounting department to a function that supports and, in many cases, drives, nearly

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions

    Ethics and Equality in College Admissions Dale Norton, Alex Flores, Doug Schwartz University of Phoenix Ethics in an Academic Environment-GEN 300 Dr. Michael Gottleib September 25, 2007 Ethics and Equality in College Admissions College admissions counselors face many decisions today when it comes to decisions that involve which students get to attend their college of choice. College admissions counselors are faced with concerns about ethics and equality. In 1996, the State of California banned affirmative

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Operations Management and Ethics

    Operations Management and Ethics

    Richard Branson once wrote that, “If you run one business well, you can run any business well.” (Business). In one short sentence, Branson defined his vision of operations management. Regardless of the business being a record label, an airline, or a cellular phone company, operations management is a process of implementing policies and tasks as necessary to satisfy ownership, employees, and customers (Operations Management). Operations management is also the management of the processes that

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    Essay Length: 699 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Nicomachean Ethics

    Nicomachean Ethics

    Nicomachean Ethics Although Aristotle values friendship, justice and contemplation, friendship and justice are virtues essential for human happiness because contemplation for a human being can be too much to handle. In order for any human being to be happy they must surround themselves with friends and have many friendships. Aristotle considers a friend to be “someone who wishes for and does good things, or things that seem good, for the sake of the other person,

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • Ethics in College Admissions

    Ethics in College Admissions

    Admissions Essays Most state colleges, as well as, private colleges are asking that prospective students submit an essay based on certain criteria before they can even begin the admissions process. When an essay is written by the prospective student at least two college employees may read the paper and decide based on what the person wrote if they should be admitted to the college. These essays can range from extracurricular activities to why they want

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    Essay Length: 524 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Ethics in a Workplce

    Ethics in a Workplce

    1. Introduction Introduction describing a particular ethical dilemma in the workplace goes here. Paper responds to the questions associated with the case United Virtualities is an online marketing firm that seeks to help companies with their technology by preventing consumers from deleting cookies from their cache memory. United Virualitities’ theory is that the online shopper is ‘technologically challenged’. Meaning that the internet shopper does not know when to delete or keep cookies. Cookies are vital

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: David
  • Ethics Scenario

    Ethics Scenario

    Each team should respond in paragraph form to the questions that follow the scenarios presented below. Any disagreements or complications that occur within the team regarding the correct response should be noted in the Learning Team Reflection Worksheet for the week. Individual After the teams have completed their responses, each member should consider his or her individual responses and reactions to the various ethical perspectives. Rate yourself on the scale at the end of this

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    Essay Length: 732 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Business ethics and corporate social responsibility have become an increasing area of focus for organizations today. However, this has not always been the case in the American business environment. Chapter three “Conducting Business Ethically and Responsibly” (R.W. Griffin & R.J. Ebert, p.56 - p.87) concentrates on the development of ethical codes of conduct as it relates to business. The chapter also focuses on the social responsibility an organization holds in relation to everyday decision making.

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Concept of Business Ethics

    The Concept of Business Ethics

    The concept of business ethics has tried to change the way businesses operate over the years. Business ethics is a form of ethics that governs the actions of businesses to circumvent the affects business has on every day society. But some question its effectiveness in the application of capitalism. Several case studies have shown that this is the case; many companies place the pursuit of money in front of the pursuit of virtue. Although, the

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethics

    Ethics

    Some people feel that ethics only has to do with the individual who does wrongdoing and has nothing to do with the organization beliefs of a company as a whole. This has been found to be completely false and these ethical wrongdoings reflect the core values of an organization and can be influenced strongly by management. Two specific examples of corporate wrongdoings involve Sears automotive and Beach-nut Nutrition. In both cases, the companies lacked a

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Vika
  • Ethical and Legal Obligations

    Ethical and Legal Obligations

    The FASB, SEC, and PCAOB Ethical financial reporting is critical to ensure consumer confidence within an economy. Accounting entries record cash transactions in the form of financial reports. Financial reporting is used to interpret and analyze business activities for the purpose of investing and efficient management. Misrepresentations, whether intentional or accidental, can send the wrong signal to interested parties resulting in wrong decisions being made. Companies have an ethical and legal obligation to financial reporting.

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Steve
  • Advertising Ethics

    Advertising Ethics

    The age of advertising today is not what it used to be years ago. Pharmaceutical companies are spending on average billions of dollars to market their drugs directly to the consumers. With this comes a potential harm to some consumers due to the fact that they feel like they are free to ask for anything that may stop the symptoms they have. Should the FDA take a stand in putting a stop to how certain

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Organizational Behavior Trends: Ethics and Technology Influences

    Organizational Behavior Trends: Ethics and Technology Influences

    Abstract Managers must be concerned with questions such as how do ethics influence the decision-making process and how is work-related stress affected by technology. Ethics in business is not a new issue. In 1550, Charles V of Spain contemplated the status of the natives discovered in the New World. Should they be slaves or be assigned a higher status? As of today, management is still affected by business ethics and needs to be aware of

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethics Theories

    Ethics Theories

    Kevin Faini Communication Ethics Professional Code Paper January 26, 2006 Being a future Public Relations Practitioner, I chose the Public Relations Society of America’s Code of Ethics to help answer the assigned questions dealing with professional code. The code I am using was adopted in 2000 and is the set of code that all Public Relations Society member is instructed to use in order to carry out their work in an ethically responsible nature. 1)

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Iphone and Ethical Issues

    Iphone and Ethical Issues

    On June 29, 2007, Apple Inc. launched sales of the iPhone at Apple and AT&T stores across the country. Many hours earlier, enthusiastic customers lined up outside stores to get the first iPhone in their hands. The iPhone is more than just a breakthrough mobile-phone device. It is a strategy that may expand Apple’s sphere of influence. Apple elegantly combined a mobile phone, mp3 player, and personal digital assistant (PDA) on the same machine characterized

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Roy Moore’s Ethics

    Roy Moore’s Ethics

    Moore-ily Ethical A few thousand years ago on Mount Sinai, Moses was given the Ten Commandments, carved in stone, and proclaimed them as laws of God which were to rule supreme over the Israelites. In August of 2001, a monument of the Ten Commandments, also carved in stone, was mounted in the rotunda of the State Judicial Building by Judge Roy Moore. However, people are questioning Roy Moore’s intentions when he used a governmental

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Ethics of Xenotransplantion

    Ethics of Xenotransplantion

    With the transplant waiting list growing every day because of a lack of human organ donors, there is much talk of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs and tissues for transplantation in human) among the scientific community. With the many technological and medical advances, it is quite possible to use organs, or parts of organs to save a life. There have been debates back and forth whether or not this is considered an ethical

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Ethics Case

    Ethics Case

    6. Mae Tom went to Kresge’s store on November 15, 1977, slipped, and fell on a clear substance on the floor. No one ever determined what the substance was, but Kresge’s did sell soft drinks in the store, and customers could walk around with their drinks. Ms. Tom wishes to recover for her injuries. Can she do so? [Tom v. S.S. Kresge Co., Inc., 633 P2d 439 (Ariz. Ap. 1981] I believe Ms. Tom can

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Artur
  • Ethical Issues: Walmart

    Ethical Issues: Walmart

    “WAL-MART SUCKS …. Life out of our communities.” This bumper sticker became the start of a long thought process. As I researched and pondered this small and simple line, I decided that another should be added to this sticker. It should say, “Wal-Mart sucks… life out of our communities, our people, and smaller underdeveloped countries.” In this essay I will focus on one of the many ethical issues surrounding Wal-Mart, labor rights and the

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Tommy