The Ethics Of International Organizations

Where would you rather live, the United States or Qatar? Easy, United States, but what if you had the choice between the United States or Qatar, but if you chose Qatar you will be given five million dollars and you only had to be there for 3 weeks. Okay, most of you reasonable people would choose Qatar, and I would imagine most of you would do it for the money. FIFA or the International Federation of Associated Football (Soccer) was bribed into making that same decision over the 2022 World Cup (Berlin), which is without a doubt the most watched and visited sporting event in the world, and now it will be witness in one of the smallest and hottest countries in the world. Now this raises the question on how these very prominent issues such as corruption (Berlin), Doping (Drepper), Money Laundering (FBI 24 Years Bribery and Corruption), the Violations of Basic Human Rights

In our socratic seminar about the article “Soccer’s Corrupt Soul,” we talked about FIFA’s deep-rooted corruption and where their greed has lead the World Cup’s future. FIFA is soccer’s main governing body, an oligarchy composed of very wealthy and powerful people. It has been discovered that these corporate bigwigs were associated with many deceitful and dishonest acts in the pursuit of making more money.

With just over six months remaining until the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the host country Russia is in the news for all the wrong reasons including concerns over racism and homophobia, Russia’s recent past with hooliganism, and the increased risk of terrorism. On December 2nd of 2010 Russia was awarded the hosting rights for the 2018 world cup beginning in June. As honoring as it is to be awarded a major event like a world cup, it doesn’t come without many years of hard work and preparation. As we are quickly approaching the six-month mark until the games begin Russia seems to be far behind schedule of the original plan as well as ethical issues. Players came out about their concern of the extreme racism in Russia along with

Based in Zurich, “The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)” is the international governing body of association football, futsal, and soccer. It has been recognized as the “United Nations of Football”, affiliated with 209 associations across the globe (FIFA, 2015). Like any other sport organization however, FIFA has long experienced allegations following the decision of Russia being awarded the 2018 World Cup and Quatar having the 2022 hosting rights. According to the reports, the United States Department of Justice reviewed the contracts related to the 2014 Brazil World Cup involving FIFA, commercial partners, and suppliers.

I did that so I could find some kind of reasoning for their actions, lessons I could learn from these previous situations, or how would I react? First, being part of the committee why were they in such denial of incidents occurring previously before the UEFA tournament? Was it because they didn’t want the world to see it or did they truly think nothing of it? What we can learn from these situations is the realization that politics are very much involved in sports. There can or will be certain groups that will take the platform that sports have and try to use it promote their cause. As a possible future administrator if we had a zero tolerance in policy by golly we would follow that policy. Possibly the Ukraine and Poland might have been a good time to show we will not put up with this behavior and would give them two options, one to move the tournament completely and secondly to let them host only if significant change has been made before the tournament. With being a local or citizen of those two countries is their behavior due to demographics slash cultural upbringing? There was some strong agreesive, and radical influences spread there from the World Wars

are affected due to if there will be another World Cup where they can show off their talents to all of the countries around the world and make a salary to provide for their families. The final peripheral stakeholder in this case has to be the fans due to the fact that they are the ones that fill the seats and have the World Cup make so much money in the first place and without them, there would not even be a World Cup. Also without funding there will be no FIFA organization. It is an absolute disgrace and one of the worst decisions that FIFA has ever made. It is without a doubt a symbol of the blatant corruption and back scratching that goes on in the 'world game ' and an affront to the history of the World Cup. Not to mention that stories continue to emerge of the systemic corruption that has occurred around the awarding of the World Cup rights.

Can Soccer become the fifth major sport? Michael Rowe Ms. Taylor Sports Lit. 8/19/14 The four sports that are considered to be “Major Sports” in America today are Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Basketball.

“Corruption in Australian sport is not a new phenomenon. A series of high-profile cases in Australia, combined with an increasing international focus, has seen a reassessment of Australian sport’s vulnerability to illegal activities such as match-fixing, use of inside information for betting purposes and the use of performance and image-enhancing drugs. This has led to the development and endorsement of national policies on match-fixing and doping, the establishment of sport integrity units, inclusion of specialist intelligence units in law enforcement and the creation of new match-fixing offences.”

FIFA has no credibility. Just look at where the next two World Cups are being played at. They must be wonderful footballing nations, right? Ha, not at all. In 2018, the world turns to Russia, who might have tampered with the 2016 U.S. election. Four years later, the world will be broiling in Qatar during winter un-the-less, who have violated humans rights by being stuck in the dark ages with slavery. And both countries were right in the middle of the FBI's investigation of FIFA's World Cup brides. Nothing FIFA does can be taken serious….

The image in the popular UK daily newspaper showed Blatter being showered with US dollar bills. All in all, although the money was fake, the image created controversy. The image portrayed high rank officials and upper class people in a whole, being money hungry. After a lot of investigation, it was found that the corruption had started long before time. More than a decade earlier from the time Blatter and other officials were convicted. Sepp Blatter was the man in power, he was head of FIFA and could bring a positive change but he misused his power. In the movie spider-man the conversion between two characters beautifully defines the job of peoples in authority. “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” (Spider-Man). It is a quote said by Benjamin Parker, a character more commonly known as “Uncle Ben” in the Marvel movie series “Spider-Man”. This simply means if you have the ability to do something, make sure that you do it for the good of others, but a lot of people think that, once they have some form of power, they can usually laud it over people and abuse it. History has a lot of people showing them becoming corrupted because of great power. Media and literature portray upper class people who have power over others in a negative way. In the story Duty Patrick Rigg tries to portray his power by saying “I can produce my SIG any time I want and snuff out the fourteen lives in closest proximity to me and still have one bullet left for myself. I can kill the Ukrainian women sitting beside me on the uptown train, or Harrison Phelps, the shy man in my company’s bonds department” (Schickler 111). Patrick is a rich guy and gun owner and has great power over people that aren’t wearing a gun, so it is his responsibility not to abuse this kind of power. It shows how rich people belonging to upper class society have no regards for others life. This

Originally I remember hearing about a scandal of sorts during the last world cup but I never bothered to delve into it since I never cared much for sports in the first place. I find the whole situation to be extremely sketchy. Starting off, the 2022 World Cup was announced to be held in Qatar, a place that not only has no long-tradition of soccer, but has a relatively hot climate that reaches up to 113 degrees in the Summer, which

According to McMillan and Gandz case study, FIFA has had both the success and its failures with the main issue on the case study been its scandals, which include corruption, bribery, and tax avoidance. Other issues highlighted also include FIFA sponsorship deals, reforms, and unfavorable workers’ conditions that has contributed to the attitudes of most of the employees . According to the Transparency International, corruption within FIFA might involve referees taking a bribe, clubs demanding kickbacks for player transfers, or companies seeing nPow (need for power) and government rigging the bids for construction contracts. The case study has only mentioned one successful high-profile lawsuit concerning FIFA corruption due to the allegation of plausible bribery surrounding the awarding of Russia and Qatar right to host 2018 and 2022 World Cup respectively.

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” (Steinbeck) International Sports Organizations have long been regarded as entities who are committed to the highest level of honesty among many multinational governing bodies. They set programs in place for mass inclusion, fund programs designed to help conflicting communities through sport, and demonstrate commendable levels of fairness and transparency. Self interested policies could never exist within such a fair democratic structure, many times the policies implemented are meant to provide the utmost level of cooperation needed to further the expansion of sport on a global and local level. At least that’s what they would have you believe. The argument to be made is whether international sports organizations, specifically FIFA, are engaged in questionable practices that allow them to impose their will upon those who stand in their way. FIFA has long been regarded as the dominant governing body in the world of football as they control the entire process behind all aspects of the World Cup and other international tournaments. However, have you ever stopped to think about why they have been so successful in remaining the sole actor in this role? International sports organizations maintain a high level of influence on a global scale, the amount of power amassed by FIFA since their inception has exceeded that of many governments and has allowed them to be massive

As stated before no two people are the same, and now two people’s thoughts are the same. But at the end of the day everyone’s views on ethics boils down to knowing right or wrong. For example, if someone were to rob a bank that person knows for a fact that is it wrong and that he may go to jail. There would be no “Maybe it was right for him to rob the bank.” This is the same for FIFA. Allowing bribes to be placed on the next place that should hold the world cup

As a passionate marketer for FIFA, and a lifelong fan of the organization, the recent scandals involving top FIFA officials have been heartbreaking for me. With all of the media presence and accusations that have been surrounding FIFA for the last few decades, I am truly worried about our future. In order for us to rebuild our organization, we need to take decisive actions to ensure these types of scandals never happen again. Despite the protests of those who think we should be lenient with corrupt officials, we must ensure justice is served and these crimes are never committed again. This presents an ethical dilemma because imposing these strict regulations may reduce the success of our historic organization. Nonetheless, I propose a range of solutions, including making sure every call throughout the FIFA organization is monitored, triple-checking all transactions that occur involving top FIFA executive officials, and creating a new process where officials are constantly switched out.