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Nike's sweatshop labor practices and corporate social responsibility

In the 1990s, Nike faced accusations of using sweatshops in Indonesia and other cheap labor countries in Asia to manufacture its products. As depicted in the video, workers were subjected to utterly inhuman conditions that denied them their dignity as human beings.

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2,498 words

Ethical decision-making and personal values in organizational leadership

A focus on ethical decision making is vitally important for the organizational leader of today and in the future. In accordance with ethical standards, every person in an organization is responsible to those whom his or her actions directly affect.

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The American Psychological Association's ethical principles and core values

The core values and ethical principles are a fundamental feature of any organization or profession. The purpose of ethical principles and core values is to facilitate the presence of guiding standards that are conducive to promoting honesty and integrity.

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Legal and illegal insider trading on Wall Street

It is a little known fact that there two types of insider trading -- legal and illegal. Usually, when we think of insider trading, we think of only the illegal, unethical acts of individuals trying to make their millions in a shady, underhanded way. Not necessarily true.

~11 min read

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Ethical responsibility for illegal music downloads under the U.S. Copyright Act

Serving as the catalyst of the debates, litigation and ongoing legal precedents that seeks to define the ethical responsibility for illegal music downloads and copyright infringement is 17 U.S.C. § 106(3) which defines the exclusive rights in copyrighted works.

~13 min read

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Ethical leadership and sweatshop labor in the Kathie Lee Gifford scandal

One of the biggest advantages of globalization is that many different companies are able to receive cheap labor to produce a wide variety of products that are sold at numerous retail stores in the United States.

~17 min read

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Ethical dilemmas in human subjects research: Tuskegee and Milgram

This paper deals with the ethical and moral dilemmas of researchers and scientists when conducting their research on their fellow man.

~12 min read

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3,403 words

Comparing the economic impacts of monopolies and corporate mergers

While there are vast differences between the two situations, they also have many similarities, and both can have drastic effects on competition, pricing, suppliers, product quality, innovation, and the economy in general.

~18 min read

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How moral development levels shape ethical decision-making in organizations

The process of making a moral or ethical decision is governed largely by the values that are applied when making the decision. In any case where a decision is being made, there are a range of values that can potentially impact the decision.

~8 min read

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Ethical violations in academic publishing and intellectual property

Several ethical issues emanate from this scenario. I was not informed as the member of the faculty about the main objective behind the issue to be discussed. It did not communicate clearly the sole purpose for the issue discussed.

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