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Ethical Awareness Issues -- Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems was a company that sold computers, software and information technology -- including the popular Java programming language and the UNIX operating system. In 2010, they merged with oracle, but prior to that had a business philosophy that was pro-open systems, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethics. For the focus on ethics, this is the idea that any organization now has a responsibility to not only produce products in a sustainable manner, but to make sure that all aspects of the company work in an ethical way.
Sun knew that it was facing pressure from competitors and public opinion of larger corporations, particularly after the Enron scandal. The company decided to provide ethics seminars. These seminars became more and more intense - and finally evolved to include all managers in every office globally to undergo ethics training....
The company would bring in experts to present information, and then have groups break out to discuss ethical situations and problems. Once the employee finished the seminar, they were given a larger binder that explained how this information should be shared and used in daily business activities. Sun continued the program with refresher courses, and also had managers take online courses that were available in eight languages. The idea seemed to be that using ethics within the workplace was so important that it need to become a "way of life" and a part of the corporate culture. Overall, it seemed like the idea was to show everyone in the company that management was behind ethical behavior for Sun, that each individual contributed to the overall idea of ethics in the workplace, and that the company was ethically only as good as its weakest link.
Part 1 -- Microeconomics is the study of small…
references. Command economy and administrative economy are systems that were used in the Soviet Union and China. In the 21st century global economy, though, developed and developing nations are communicating better, stakeholders have a higher degree of expectation, and consumerism seems to be driving the global economy -- none of which work well for planned economies.
Part 6 -- Gross Domestic Product is the total of all the goods and services produced within a country. Total productivity is the relationship between goods and services and what is needed to produce them (example: Human Resources, Raw Materials, Money). Productivity impacts GDP in the medium and long-term because the higher the productivity, eventually the higher amount of goods and services produced. The two issues, GDP and TP have a positive relationship -- the larger the TP the larger the GDP. The more production, the more workers employed who also spend -- and the more products available for export.