Money And Desire : A Powerful Combination

What Money Can’t Buy; The Moral Limits of Market by Michael Sandel argues the relationship between markets and our morality. His central concern is the influence of money on the sphere of life traditionally governed by nonmarket norms such as rights as a citizen, care for others, and civic duties. He demonstrated that market is responsible for destroying our sense of morality by placing monetary value to it. This paper will argue the relationship between market and morality through demonstrating the type of goods corrupted by money, the flaws in the market system that causes such problems, and the political solution for this problem as suggested by Michael Sandel respectively.

Through written form and literary techniques, the book feed elaborates on many ideas that Anderson puts forth to the responder, one idea that is evident in the book is the idea of morality using it to show that corporations are in fact evil. Morality is the ability of humanity to distinguish between right and wrong, and once we have lost this capability we symbolically lose the core of our humanity. Anderson influenced by his social context where money is power writes “We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.” The repetition of the word “we” and the high modality used in the

Layoffs are not always the best solution for a decline in company profits. A business must resolve the conflict that exists between their responsibility to meet economic targets and the ethical responsibility of non-maleficence. Furthermore, it must be determined if the layoffs would even maximize stakeholder welfare from a utilitarian perspective (Arce & Xin Li, 2011).

At a time when many companies experience a difficult economic situation, they have to cut costs by laying off workers, and worse if your employees decided to leave for other competitors. Losing a talented worker is costly and to replace your top employee’s knowledge, experience and customer relationships is not something as simple as ones might think. So why do good employees quit? Even with high wages or great benefit, employees can still depart from the company if they do not get along well with their managers. So in order to keep good employees on board, the managers play an important role in knowing and matching their workers’ needs. In what follows, I going to analyze the case study: “Why are we losing all our good people?” which is about a fictional firm called “Sambian Partners”; what's really the reasons that is driving talented people out of the company and offering some solution to help Sambian stop the talent drain.

"After the Layoffs, What Next?" is a case study involving the aftermath of the downsizing of Delarks, a Midwestern clothing store chain. In this case Harry Denton, the architect of the downsizing, is able to orchestrate a considerable financial turnaround, but in so doing he alienates most of Delarks' remaining employees and most of Delarks' upper-management. Denton is an inexperienced CEO whose management experience rests solely in managing a national chain's flagship store in New York. Though Denton's restructuring of Delarks' business model will cause Wall Street to take notice and toast Denton's efforts, his inexperience may in the end eventuate in Delarks' collapse. Delark's downsizing was done in a rather abrupt way in which most laid-off employees were entirely unaware that they were about to lose their jobs. The problem Denton unknowingly faced was that the employee-pool at Delarks was very tight-knit where members felt as if they belonged to one big satisfied family, and the unexpected lay-offs caused great distress within the company.

If corporations are given unchecked power they would quickly run over the workers in order to increase profit. It is not in the corporations’ best interest to provide livable wages and benefits to employees. It is almost impossible to imagine a world without pensions, paid vacations, and sick leave. A happy and healthy work force is more likely to be more productive. The human element is often lost by a company as it grows.

Suicides were abundant as fortunes were lost overnight, companies’ stocks were deemed worthless, and grand companies of manufacture, were split over the course of the day, a stock that was a great investment was now for all its merits worthless. Thousands, millions were lost, not only affecting the rich of the Americas, but the workers, and employees of the then near-default and defunct companies of this

Corporations began placing less value on employees and more value of the money. Many individuals at the top of the hierarchy, such as stakeholders and board of director members were making deals that placed value monetary gain. While at the bottom of the hierarchy, where the employees were, had the opposite experience. Some were seeing pay cuts or no pay increases, while others felt the sting of loss of jobs and company closures. Many of these decisions were being made within split second timing and were not discussed or worked on over an extended period, meeting the guise of an emergency or immediate

“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” shows us how basic human nature does not change, whether it is firing as a means to resolve disputes, or in the

In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many commentators attempted to analyze the roots of the conflict from a political or economic perspective. Anthropologist Karen Ho, a veteran of Wall Street as well as an academic, attempted to understand the reason that Wall Street behaves the way it does in her 2009 anthropological study of American finance entitled Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street from a cultural perspective. The central paradox with which Ho begins her book is: " the economy experienced not only record corporate profits and the longest rising stock market ever, but also record downsizings," further concentrating the wealth in America (Ho 2009: 1-2). But how can corporations grow richer as the American public as a whole grows poorer? Corporations no longer view themselves as responsible for taking care of their employees, creating good products, or serving their original mission. Instead, the focus is on generating shareholder wealth (Ho 2009:3). Shareholders, not the larger public, have become the symbolic and real focus of firm strategy. The shareholder "symbolized and 'stood in' for the whole of the corporation and became the sole locus of concern and analysis" during the time Ho conducted her study in the late 1990s and continues to this day (Ho 2009:175)

Some people argue that money is a main motivator through business and job opportunity, but is not always completely true as there are others factors to considers such as working conditions, environment and the peoples we work with. This essay discuss the arguments that are both for and against money being the key motivator in Singapore.

Other significant stakeholders that deserve priority are Enron’s employees. The employees present threats to Enron in two ways: they can form coalitions to exercise their legal rights, and they can also leave the company. They will most likely sue the company as they have lost vast amounts of their retirement savings (Moscoco and Deans, 2002). The urgency in this situation matters a lot as some employees are reaching their retirement age. When it comes to employees leaving the company, it is important to note that these employees have the necessary skills and are essential for the business to succeed. Here is where we see the opportunity. How is Enron going to recover without them? That being said, Enron has to do something to retain its employees.

Sex and money, according to a booklet entitled “Making Marriage Last”, which is published by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, problems relating to financial matters are a major reason why marriages break down. For instance, in my marriage, my wife has tendency to spend a lot of money, but she doesn’t want to help pay our bills. She keeps her money herself and spend my money. This is the problem most couples have today's, and therefore our marriage is becoming more and more stressful. Sex is another stressful problem in marriage. Whenever couple have an issue about money, one partner might decide not to satisfy sexually his or her husband and refused any sex intercourse between them. The selfishness of both conjoint makes things complicated in married couple. In my case my wife always wants to have the last word in our taught, she has multiple shopping credit card. When we first got married, I had very good interest to be with my wife, for example I couldn’t wait to go home after my job but now it has been seven months that we got married; I am already tired of this marriage and I also lost any interest in being around her because every time we are together, we will get into a fight. Sometime the boredom in my marriage is another problem. For instance, I can have interest in something I want to buy that is different from my wife this will be a big problem and lead to fight. Sometime, my wife thinks I lack intimacy toward her because I am always busy with my work

The collapse of Enron and all of the questions that arise to try and explain how this company failed, it all comes back to the values of management. The last option on our training plan will provide training in ethics. Enron executives and employees were caught in the desire to report ever-increasing earnings in order to keep stock prices rising, and to protect their jobs and wealth in their retirement plans (,2002).

So, people who can explain how they earned the money also show that they been paying the taxes are allowed to keep it, but people with holding more than 250,000 rupees in cash has to explain the source of the money to tax authorities. People found them selves lacking the money for basic transactions, like buying supplies and retail businesses came to a standstill because people hoarded the little cash they had for supplies. The government did not print the new bills until after the announcement and not did it recalibrate ATM to dispense the new bills. There was long lines formed at the few ATM that were operating, but many of them ran out of bills. The printing presses have only churned out more than $50 billions rupees, but the government was initially forced to limit ATM. ATM was limited to give out only 2,500 rupees and banks was limited to give out 24,000 rupees per week. About a third of business India is done with black money and in a heavily regulated economy. Government officials invest much of this money in real estate and not only is the property purchased with black money. The sellers pay less tax than they should because the prices have been understated. So if people just start hoarding the new bills? The government say that in order to work and plan has to inflict enough pain on tax avoiders that they change their behavior. If people keep their money in banks and more will be available for lending or people will become accustomed to paying taxes. There are many