Business/Professional Ethics Directors/Executives/Acct
Business/Professional Ethics Directors/Executives/Acct
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ISBN: 9781337485913
Author: BROOKS
Publisher: Cengage
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Which of the following MOST likely indicates a clear violation of an NFPO’s code of conduct? John Adams, a volunteer for the local pet shelter, also owns a pet store and has offered a discount on pet food to the local shelter. Cecilia Lam used inappropriate language on her Facebook page when referring to the NFPO for which she worked. Mark Adams, an employee for a legal society, used the organization’s computer to research a new job. Hanpreet Kaur, the accountant for a sports rehabilitation society, offered the society’s services to his sister free of charge without her needing to qualify.
Able, a Certified Fraud Examiner, interviewed a suspect involved in an environmental crime. The suspect, Blake, admitted to purposely polluting the environment. Blake’s action eventually caused almost thirty people to develop serious environmentally related illness. Upon hearing this fact from Blake, Able should: A. Scold Blake for his conduct. B. Make no comment whatever. C. Treat Blake with decency and respect. D. Ask Blake to apologize to the victims.
Your HR Manager approaches you regarding a worker whose performance reports have been deteriorating lately and seeks your opinion on whether to keep or fire the worker. To balance things out, the manager says that the business has invested a lot of time and money in educating this employee on company-specific procedures, and that it would be a shame to let that money go to waste. What response would you have?
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    The Department of Education called the attention of LBC (Luzon Brokerage Movement) management for showing a commercial that encouraged wrong spelling among children. In a spelling bee contest, the emcee played by Edu Manzano called the contestants to spell remittance, affordable, and instant. They spelled out "LBC" instead. DepEd said that the commercial was encouraging wrong spelling of words.    What is the social responsibility of entrepreneurs or advertisers to customers based on the example given above?
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  • In her book The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, Jennings explains: “When an organization collapses ethically, it means that those in the organization have drifted into rationalizations and legalisms, and all for the purpose of getting the results they want and need at almost any cost.” Discuss what you think Jennings meant by this statement in the context of the giving voice to values discussions in Chapter 2.
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  • According to the 2011 National Business Ethics Survey conducted by the Ethics Resource Center, Generational Differences in Workplace Ethics,83 a relatively high percentage of Millennials consider certain behaviors in the workplace ethical when compared with their earlier counterparts.These include: • Use social networking to find out about the company’s competitors (37%),• “Friend” a client or customer on a social network (36%),• Upload personal photos on a company network (26%),• Keep copies of confidential documents (22%),• Work less to compensate for cuts in benefits or pay (18%),• Buy personal items using a company credit card (15%),• Blog or tweet negatively about a company (14%), and• Take a copy of work software home for personal use (13%). The report further concludes that younger workers are significantly more willing to ignore the presence of misconduct if they think that behavior will help save jobs. a. Choose one or more behaviors and explain why Millennials might view a.…
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    Nancy John, a bright, female investment analyst about to give a major presentation to a group of bankers supporting a corporate acquisition. After walking in and meeting the bankers before you give the presentation, you're asked by your boss to "be a dear and serve them coffee." Imagine the insult and awkwardness of such a situation-what do you do? Do you carry through with the task, sacrificing your dignity or doing something wrong because you can't afford to lose the job? Or do you speak up? A group of Swiss occupational health researchers have recently started a program of research on illegitimate tasks, or tasks that violate "norms about what can reasonably be expected from a given person" in a job. Question: 1. What do you think of this situation? 2. What might cause supervisors and managers within organizations to allocate these kinds of tasks? 3. Can you explain it based on 'positive reinforcement' behavior and suggest some suggestion?
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