Case Study A: What concerns would you have about operating this business as a sole proprietorship if you were Stan? What alternative form of business organization would you recommend and why? In this case Stan is thinking about starting a toxic waste disposal business. He is considering operating this business as a sole proprietorship. Although this is a valid business organization it also carries numerous disadvantages, if not all aspects of the company are taken into account. I will explain
Desperate Air: What would I do? Management is often faced with ethical dilemmas that have no clear cut correct answer. In our case study, (1)Desperate Air, George Nash, Vice President of Real Estate faces a conflict of values similar to the CEO in Seglin’s article, “How to Make Tough Ethical Calls”. They both want to tell the truth and they want to protect their companies, their investors, their employees, and their own livelihood. Neither Mr. Nash nor the CEO conducted a through examination
hundreds of residents from Warren County, North Carolina protested a toxic waste landfill that would take over the largest African American community in the state. “This demonstration has been described as the first national protest by blacks on the hazardous waste issue.” (Visgilio and Whitelaw, ix) Subsequent to Warren County, the U.S. General Accounting Office examined the community and “found that 3 out of the 4 offsite hazardous waste landfills in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s)
asked to identify and clean-up hazardous waste sites. However, thirty years later the United States is facing additional new threats to the health and safety of the American people. The Superfund sites themselves are becoming “nightmares to deal with, due to disturbances and damage caused by extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change” (Treadman, 2010). The EPA website states, “hazardous waste sites can discharge and release large quantities of toxic substances when subject to flooding, tornados
success. This is the backbone of our approach to CSR’. (Marks and Spencer 's, Retailer) ‘CSR is the business contribution to our sustainable development goals. Essen5ally it is about how business takes account of its economic, social and environmental impacts in the way it operates maximising the benefits and minimising the downsides.Specifically, we see CSR as the voluntary actions that business can take, over and above compliance with minimum legal requirements, to address both its own compe55ve
readers through twelve separate stories of communities in the United States that have been unwillingly exposed to high levels of environmental toxicity. In each of these cases, citizens of those communities reacted to and pushed back against being exposed to toxic chemicals, sometimes successfully and sometimes less so. In every case, the people most heavily exposed to these health hazards were minorities and low-income citizens, which, Lerner argues, is why government officials and corporate decision-makers
which is Ajungle. Nearly thirty kilometers away from the cities largest slum is a landfill where nearly 1000 people live and work. Despite being characterized as scavengers of garbage, they are actually entrepreneurs. These people have created a business from what they find in the dump and how they are able to make a profit from what others didn’t find value in. This essay will explore the social, economic and environmental issues they go through to secure a living. Socially, the documentary depicts
meth labs operating in or near their homes. The prison system is overwhelmed by the needs of incarcerated meth users. Hospital emergency departments (ED) report that meth is a significant drug problem. The cost of meth labs to society is large. A study done by the University of Arkansas found the cost to prevent abuse in one county to be around $20 million. Although many measures have been placed, abuse has been steadily increasing. In 2003, there was a 68% increase in workers who tested positive
Balogun Grace Dr. McCray Sociology 210 August 28, 2017 Environmental Racism Environmental racism refers to the inappropriate exposure of low-income or minority individuals to heavy chemicals, pollution, toxic wastes, pesticides, and, most importantly, clean air. According to Bullard, environmental racism refers to racial discrimination in environmental policy making, decision making, and/or any practice which results in equitable distribution of environmental burdens borne by society and based on
Cash for Comment case studies (one or more) and at least one major theory studied in this unit. | The aim of this essay will be to examine how social and cultural changes have forced corporations to re-evaluate many of the principles they work upon, it will open up by looking at a few of the major ethical issues that corporations must deal with when serving the needs of the community. The essay will explore the Werribee Residents Against a Toxic Dump (WRATD) case study and highlight some