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    White Collar Crime Case Study

    1. What aspects of the schemes described in this case were: a. Unethical? b. Illegal? c. Fraudulent? 2. When would a healthy skepticism by senior management, or professional skepticism by an accounting or legal professional have been useful in combating the opportunities faced by Walt? 3. Wa

    Essay/Reflection Paper Business Ethics

    Ethics in business relationships include both the external and internal relationships that develop around the organization. For this assignment, we will focus on the internal relationships that develop inside the organization. Studies have indicated the more positive the environment within the organization, the more productive

    Royal Ahold Case Study

    1. A vendor may offer a customer a rebate of a specified amount of cash or other consideration that is payable only if the customer completes a specified cumulative level of purchases or remains a customer for a specified period of time. When should the rebate be recognized as revenue? At what value should the rebate be recorded

    Perverse Incentives: Reimbursement and Bilateral Surgery

    Perverse Incentives Perverse Incentives: Reimbursement and Bilateral Surgery, in the text (Buchbinder, Shanks, & Buchbinder, 2014) • Create a list of legal and ethical concerns you would have as a health services manager in this situation. • Discuss what regulation requirements may be most problematic (include consequen

    Corporate Social Responsibility

    Visit the library, and find a scholarly article related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).  In 1-2 paragraphs, define what is meant by CSR. Briefly summarize the article (1-2 paragraphs). Discuss the contribution of the article to our knowledge of CSR - i.e., discuss why the article is important to our understanding o

    Ethics on Courage, Honor, Trustfulness

    Choose three virtues (e.g., justice, fairness, integrity, courage, honor, truthfulness, etc.), and define each using a reputable online dictionary (e.g., http://www.merriam-webster.com/). Using a section heading for discussion of each of your chosen virtues, discuss how each virtue applies to some ethical issue raised by the Ma

    The 1920 Farrow's Bank Failure: A Case of Managerial Hubris

    For this assignment, read the case study, "The 1920 Farrow's Bank Failure: A Case of Managerial Hubris." This case is located in the ABI/Inform Complete database found in the CSU Online Library (see reference below). Hollow, M. (2014). The 1920 Farrow's bank failure: A case of managerial hubris? Journal of Management History,

    PPACA :Success or Failure?

    In 2015, the PPACA will achieve its 5-year milestone. Since the inception of PPACA, many changes have occurred in the way health care is delivered and purchased by consumers. Read the Levitt article below on how well the PPACA is working. Consider whether or not you agree with the Levitt article, and why. As Levitt asserts,

    Policymaker and Health Policy Issue

    Identify a policymaker in your area. This could be a member of the U.S. Congress from your state of residence or an equivalent legislative person that you identify if you are from a territory. Provide the name, title, contact information, and web page if available. Also, explain why you selected this policymaker. Select a health

    Case: Criminal Behavior by Healthcare Provider

    The United States federal government has created numerous programs to combat fraud and abuse in the health care industry. The government now encourages health care facilities to have a corporate compliance program, a plan that reduces the chances that the facility will violate laws or regulations. A corporate compliance program

    Coca Cola: Ethical Crisis

    Hello, I would like to request your assistance for my Ethics Course Assignment. There are four questions and I am in need of assistance. Your assistance is needed by Sunday, 10/23/16, 2:00 p.m. CST. Thanking you in advance and if you need anything from me to assist with the assignment, please let me know also, if you are u

    Code of Ethics Importance

    Begin by preparing a code of ethics for a fictional company, which should include a minimum of 10 elements. Once you have compiled the code of ethics, respond to the following questions: 1. Why did you include each of the 10 elements? Why is a code of ethics an important part of every business from an employer standpoint? 3.

    Ethics Assistance

    Hello, I need assistance with 4 questions. With your response, please list all outside references (APA format) and indicate it within the paragraph. Your assistance is needed by Sunday, 10/16/16. The assignment reading and questions are attached. Let me know if you need anything additional.

    Interchangeable Ethics and Law

    Discuss the interaction between the following pairings of characteristics: • Ethical and legal • Unethical and legal • Ethical and illegal • Unethical and illegal

    Firm Sustainability: Ethically Effective Cultures

    How would you characterize an ethically effective culture, the one that would effectively lead to profitable and valuable long-term sustainability for a firm? How would you hire the best workers for that culture? What would you do with the ones who do not share the corporate culture?

    Ethical culture within the organization

    For this assignment, you will take on the role of a vice president of a major organization. The CEO has assigned you the responsibility of educating the leaders within the organization of the importance of maintaining an ethical culture. The tone of the presentation should be of a persuasive nature, as you will also be asking th

    Legal and Ethical Issues in Management

    Mary works at Acme, Inc. The company is heavily regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and it has an audit scheduled for next week. Mary's boss approached her and requested that she not tell anyone about the recent toxic waste spill that happened on the company's property. She later witnessed her boss destroy

    Sexual Harassment and Deontology

    The topic is sexual harassment in the workplace and the ethical theory being used is Deontology. I need 350 words on impact of the topic (sexual harassment) and theory Deontology.

    Duty and Ethics: Enron

    Discuss how the Enron case informs our understanding of what it means for companies to be "socially responsible." 1.In the context of CSR, in what ways did Enron demonstrate - not social responsibility - but social irresponsibility? Consider how the company's actions ran counter to the tenets of CSR through its neglect of dut

    Apply Duty Ethics to the Enron case study

    In the Module 4 Case, you will be applying duty ethics to the Enron case. Required Reading Madsen, S., & Vance, C. (2009). Unlearned lessons from the past: An insider's view of Enron's downfall. Corporate Governance, 9(2), 216-227. Retrieved from ProQuest. Optional Reading Chandra, G. (2003). The Enron implosion and

    Ethical Decision Making in Difficult Situations

    1. On the issue of overseas bribes, Terris asks the questions, "Who was hurt by the [overseas bribes to secure sales of aircraft]? The competitors, of course, but what was unethical about beating out the competition that was playing by the same rules?" (p.59). What do you think about a situation where underhanded and back door d

    Principles and Practice

    600 words. The Association of Fundraising Professionals has a code of ethical principles and practices. What does this code have in common with the Association's Donor Bill of Rights?

    Memo to Company about Environmental Ethics

    A public company is changing its mission and business entity to be a for-profit benefit corporation that is required to show social and environment benefits besides a profit. But so far, the company has not altered their actions and policies with regards to enormous environmental waste being generated. You are an external cus

    Business Ethics and Stakeholder Theory

    1. Describe what you consider to be the responsibility of top leadership in a large organization with respect to reaching a balance between profits and stakeholder concerns. Please support your position by giving some examples from the text or from other sources where CEOs did a good or poor job of finding this balance. 2. Te

    SOX Compliance

    I need some assistance with this topic: I need to expand my paper and have some more depth to this topic. Can you assist me ? I also need resources. Thank you, Brief historical summary on SOX enactment •The key ethical components of the SOX •Social responsibility implications regarding mandatory publication of corpora

    Ethical Delimma's in Research

    A researcher on your team copies sentences from another study and incorporates them into the final written report for a project. What do you do? Ensure response includes: 1) ways this problem might have been anticipated, 2) how could it have been address it in the research proposal, 3) and what boundaries researchers must

    Corporate response to an ethical incident

    I need help writing this paper I need more substance to complete this assignment. Here is the articles I used to start my paper. http://proxy1.ncu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=59904653&site=ehost-live Eweje, G., & Wu, M. (2010). Corporate response to an ethical incident: Th

    Top 5 ethical issues facing business managers today

    I need assistance determining the top 5 ethical issues facing business managers today. The issues should be described in detail and then ranked according to literature in business management of by the importance placed upon them by the current media. In assessing a rank order, a justification must be provided for the ran