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Ethical issues in marketing: Rip Curl and Commonwealth Bank

Ethics can be defined as standards employed by people to choose the right course of action amongst diverse, often conflicting possibilities. Ethics are reliant on a logical and rational set of principles to arrive at a decision, which in essence, is a cognitive procedure or practice.

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Cross-cultural management challenges for IKEA's U.S. operations

Business across borders has presented significant challenges for multinational organisations. Due to cultural differences between countries, a multinational organisation is compelled to take the differences into account during important processes such as human resource management (HRM).

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Why maintaining an ethical culture is imperative for organizations

In business, culture is what drives an organization. If it is a negative culture, outcomes will be negative: in-fighting will exist, employees will not rise to the challenges placed before them, management will not communicate well, leadership will be absent.

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Ethical leadership as the foundation for corporate social responsibility

Ethical Leadership in business is an essential part in the conduct of proper and honest affairs. It represents the most important framework of moral values shared by a company or corporation.

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Bill Smith's ethical dilemma: cashing the erroneous credit check

If ethics is correctly defined "as the values that guide us to do the 'right thing' even when no one is looking" (Plotczyk, P.N.D.), then the dilemma facing the Global Investment Banking employee (Bill Smith) is one of deciding whether to cash the $2,500 American Express credit check, in absence of…

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Comparison of six primary ethical systems and their applications

Duty-based ethics: Regardless of consequences, certain moral principles are binding, focusing on duty rather than results or moral obligation over what the individual would prefer to do (Trevino & Nelson, 2007, Chapter 4).

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Aston Global MBA program strengths and career development goals

Aston Business School has a vaunted reputation, a program defined by excellence and a metropolitan context that I personally find extremely compelling.

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Ethical problems with seniority, inbreeding, and nepotism in promotions

The role of ethics is increasingly gaining ground in every sphere of activity. This is stemming from the perception of declining standards in public life raising issues regarding the cost of wrongdoing by the very individuals charged with the responsibility of safeguarding public interests and…

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Ben & Jerry's preservation of mission and brand after Unilever acquisition

Ben & Jerry's business model from the beginning was one of the most unique in the history of business, in that it successfully integrated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), commitment to product, economic and social initiatives that successfully balanced both product quality and concern for the…

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Ethical decision-making in computer technology workplace contexts

The issues of workplace ethics in the context of computer technology have been pointed out to be filled with several instances of ethical dilemma (Parker, 1981).

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