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Sarbanes-Oxley Act Dana Smith LAW/321 December 6, 2011 Michelle Hamilton Sarbanes-Oxley Act In the corporate world today the rules and regulations are stricter than they were in early 2000. The development of corporate governance that established procedures to be used by officers and directors for lines of responsibility, approval, oversight by key stockholders, and set the rules for corporate decision making became more extreme. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 made the use of

WorldCom Group, was a telecommunications company that filed for bankruptcy protection on July21, 2002. Between 1999 and 2002, WorldCom had overstated its pretax income by at least $7 billion through the use of accrual releases and the capitalization of line costs. The corporate culture which was in part established by CEO Bernard J. Ebbers, the pressure to maintain an expense-to-revenue ratio that showed growth, and the lack of internal controls, corporate governance and individual responsibility

To what extent were the actions of Bernard Ebbers indicative of leadership, and to what extent did Ebbers display destructive deviant behavior? Provide examples of leadership and deviant behavior from the case. When Ebbers started his business he challenged all the surrounding obstacles; and he never gave up to reach success. His challenge and rapid success result in gaining the trust of his employees "Ebbers displayed a simple charm that led key staff members to describe him as a charismatic leader

The absolutes in the WorldCom would be unethical work culture, manipulating account, threatening to the employee, lying about fudged up account and fraud. The Ebbers ethical style who stole the $400 million from faulty account at WorldCom. It is clearly seen that there is the violation of the laws as Ebbers used allegedly funds for other business ventures and drop down the stock price which brought questions to WorldCom as “Earning”. The staff within the company did not want whistleblower for a

Introduction One of America’s famous corporate leaders rose to prominence like a whirlwind and, then years after the euphoria, he fell from grace. Bernard Ebbers, a Mississippian native, became the face of America’s corporate world just for a short time. Then, his glory ended only to face allegations of fraud, abuse, and other corporate malpractices. The rise and fall of Bernie Ebbers shocked the business world for he lived, then, in modesty, supported education and contributed to his community.

powerful people in the telecommunications industry. Bernard Ebbers undoubtedly demonstrated outstanding leadership during his early years of entrepreneurship. His entrepreneurial story is full of legends. His story about "bartenders" napkin sketched "Communication Rhapsody"was knew by people. And after the acquisition of 70 small and medium-sized telecommunications companies he swiftly revived a small local telecommunications company as the second-largest US long-distance telephone company at that moment

For 12 years, beginning in 2000, I worked for MCI in the prepaid phone card division. Initially, the business was supported by the company, and provided substantial revenue to the corporation. After MCI was purchased by Verizon in 2006, the new management decided to close the group. While there, I obtained the knowledge of operations management, and the principles of managing distribution. I also obtained the required comprehension of contract law as it applied to third party business relationships

Introduction The three communication theories I have applied to provide the most insight into understanding the dynamics of the observed conversation between two people are; the transmission model (Shannon & Weaver 1949), Foulger 's ecological model (Foulger 2004), and an expanded model of communication (Eunson 2012). In this essay I have used a conversation I had listened to which was between my friend (from here on will be named George) and his friend (from here on will be named Mark). Problems

ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES IN MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION* Ivan Malbašić** Ruža Brčić*** Received: 14. 3. 2012 Accepted: 14. 11. 2012 Review UDC: 65.012.3 Organizational values have recently been regaining importance, which is reflected in the fact that they are commonly referred to as organizational foundations. Indeed, practice has proved that those values provide the basis for decisionmaking at all levels of the organization – from senior management to the nonmanagerial employees. This paper

Recruitment Documentation In this assignment I am going go through how and what companies do when they are hiring people and what candidates need to do to get their job. I am also going to describe the recruitment documentation used in a selected organisation. The selected organisation I am doing is Tesco. When companies are looking for recruitments, firms produce two documents to hire people; one document is the Job Description. The job description includes responsibilities, duties, who responsible