Business Ethics statements
...discrimination and is steadily increasing. 3. What is the highest percentage of all outcomes in retaliation cases? Article 11 1. The litigation costs associated with the rise in harassment complaints are enormous and increasing. Therefore it is essential to prevent incidents that might lead to harassment claims. 2. One hallmark of an effective non-discriminatory and anti-harassment policy is corrective action upon a finding of misconduct, with specific examples of possible actions. 3. Employees who are subjected to harassment tend to assume it's because of a protected characteristic. Article 12 1. A majority of Americans believe that affirmative action programs have improved conditions for black-Americans. 2. 51 % of whites believe affirmative action programs have helped a lot for blacks. 3. What percentage of people favored permitting parents to choose which public school they send their children to. Article 13 1. Barry Maher says, "because women still dominate sales, men are reluctant to hire them into upper management. 2. Why are female salespeople being shutout of the highest ranks of the sales profession? 3. The more women enter into the higher ranks the more the stereotypes will fade. Article 14 1. Severance is generally a tiny part of the Human Resource budget 2. A beefed-up severance is now being used to lure workers into the workplace. 3. A large majority of companies gave severances to all full-time employees who were laid off. Article 15 1. Half of the overall unemployment is white-collar workers 2. What does the term offshoring mean and how does it affect the U.S.? 3. Globalization is the biggest trend in the business world right now; even health care is picking up on the benefits. Article 16 1. One of Enron's major problem were the top executives who turned their back to the questionable accounting maneuvers. 2. Another major problem with Enron was the discounting of employee's questions of their accounting propriety. 3. Arthur Andersen had a lot to blame with the collapse of Enron. Article 17 1. Companies are now encouraging whistleblowers in the workplace. 2. Creating an effective internal whistleblower program is one of management's best tools for heading off possible government enforcement actions. 3. A whistleblower program is useless without an effective communication and education policy that reaches all levels of employees. Article 18 1. Trying to find the line being crossed between academic values and the lure of profit is a hard one. 2. Has commercialization already taken a toll on the quality of educational programs? 3. Because some university practices involve money as a value it is hard to measure the significance this places upon the students. Article 19 1. Strict ethical criteria molds business behavior now in the business world. 2. How far should CEO's go to protect shareholders? 3. The real ethical dilemmas are not choices between right and wrong, but choices between right and right, in which both options seem correct. Article 20 1. Without proof Clair should not be fired until due process and proof is found 2. A new ethical problem at work is internet pornography 3. What might be a reason for treating Clair differently than the employee fired for violating company policy? Article 22 1. The e-commerce marketplace must rely on presenting a trustworthy environment. 2. Consumers must trust organizational promises or claims made to them 3. Trust requires integrity and consistency in following a known set of values, beliefs, and practices. Article 23 1. What is a good strategy to set a business moral compass? 2. A climate of integrity requires leaders to build an ethical infrastructure with seven strategies. 3. One strategy is to emphasize ethical behavior and social responsibility in training and management development. Article 24 1. Is lying, if it proves success, worth the risk? 2. If business people want to change the ethical climate, they must do it themselves. 3. The Sarbanes-Oxley law forces chief executives of publicly traded companies to verify their financial statements. Article 25 1. What is really driving the ethics boom? 2. There is no evidence that suggests the growth is a result of a decline in standards. 3. Do better corporate ethics fuel higher profits? Article 26 1. Emerging from the 60's and 70's is the concept of corporate social audit. 2. Why will the social audit work now if it did not back then? 3. The election of Ronald Reagan was a seminal event in signaling the pendulum swing toward a more conservative agenda. Article 27 1. Scandals are discouraging investment trusts and hurting the stock market. 2. The flow of money into mutual funds has been decreasing since 2000. 3. Unless corporate America moves quickly to regain public confidence then Wall Street should languish for years. Article 28 1. Will the fixing of corporate governance restore the public's faith in the system? 2. The confidence of shareholders has been eroding since the 54 billion write-off of Time-Warner. 3. Plato stated that as a matter of basic fairness, no one in a company should make more than five times tan the wages of an ordinary worker. Article 29 1. What does NIOSH define as workplace violence? 2. OSHA guidelines include policy recommendations and practical corrective methods to help prevent and mitigate the effects of workplace violence. 3. Bullying has a direct effect on productivity and profits because it creates absenteeism and low morale. Article 30 1. The theory behind ethical imperialism is absolutism, which is based on three principles. 2. One problem with absolutism is the presumption that people must express moral truth using only one set of concepts. 3. Belief in one set of global standards for ethical behavior is considered a problem. Article 31 1. In order to get the best employees, you have to build a company you feel good about. 2. A CEO must always know where their corporation's responsibilities begin and end. 3. Antiglobalization protesters should be dealt strategically by business leaders. Article 32 1. Leadership is meant to lead and not for self-adulation. 2. Your credentials as a leader and your motives will always be questioned. 3. What is the most important virtue to have as a leader? Article 33 1. The function within business firms most often charged with ethical abuse is marketing. (Murphy & Laczniak) 2. High intrusive marketing strategies are e-mailing and banner ads. 3. Leveraging the degree of ethical interactivity will help to tailor marketing actions according to consumer ethical flexibility. 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