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Self-Assessment, Career Goals, and Ethics in Business Education

A professional reflection on personality assessments, terminal degree aspirations, business ethics in education, and a career strategy for the federal Senior Executive Service.

Career

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801 words

Contract breach, self-interest, and business ethics analysis

Group A: The situation with the journalist reflects on the ethical implications of a contract. A contract is an agreement, and is legally binding. Under law, there are provisions for how and when a contract may be broken -- a more lucrative offer from a competitor is unlikely to be among these.

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 1,393 words

Why Unethical Business Practices Deter a Career in Business

A student essay reflecting on unethical corporate scandals—from tainted milk to bailout bonuses—and their impact on career choices in business.

Ethics

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 667 words

Business Course Retrospective: Bias, Media, and Stakeholders

A business course retrospective examining how journaling and online discussions revealed personal and stakeholder biases, media influence, and globalization challenges.

Business

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870 words

Four ethical principles in business practice: autonomy, beneficence, justice, and accountability

Generally, ethics consists of four types of conceptual concerns: Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice, and Non-malfeasance (Hursthouse, 2005; Mihaly, 2007).

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405 words

The gap between legal conduct and ethical conduct in business

The Toys "R" Us case is just one isolated example of the substantial gap between the limits of the conduct that is actually prohibited by formal law and violations of fundamental principles of ethics in modern business.

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1,377 words

Global software development teams: ethics and knowledge management

The stresses of knowledge transfer and knowledge management are especially prevalent in the software industry. The time and cost pressures of global software development amplify and make more challenging the issues of globalization affecting every high technology business today.

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676 words

Three ethical dilemmas in modern business: transparency, healthcare, and environmental responsibility

What do you consider the three most important ethical issues or dilemmas encountered by modern day businesses? Explain and give examples of each. How do laws, societal changes in values and globalization present challenges for corporate business ethics?

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1,687 words

The tension between profit and ethical conduct in business organizations

Business ethics mean different things to different people, which is quite clear in the way some unethical organizations do business.

~9 min read

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926 words

Ethical purchasing standards and procurement integrity in business

Business ethics can be defined as systems of principles and values that direct choices and dealings within a company. In the business world, a company's culture often sets the values for determining the distinction between good and bad decision making and actions.

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