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The "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list as an ethical business indicator

The "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list, compiled by Business Ethics magazine, is designed to serve stakeholders with "with excellence and integrity," (Graves, Waddock, and Kelly).

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Milton Friedman's 1970 argument on business profit and social responsibility

Milton Friedman famously proposed in 1970 that the "social responsibility of business is to increase its profits," and that notion of business ethics is still prevalent today, though the debate about the subject has yet to abate.

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Discipline in business management: Frederick Taylor and Peter Drucker

Management is the process of delegating tasks to groups that are meant to achieve an overall goal. It is a popular, worldwide practice that pertains to versatile cultures and civilizations. Organizations under every sphere and scope of work employ this tool to function efficiently and productively.

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Jim Cramer and Blake Mycoskie on success and ethics

He touched on a few different subjects in his speech. One moment was when he related a story about ethics. It was basically about this time he had an opportunity to steal, but did not.

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Corporate accountability and international standards for business oversight

What community or global concerns do you feel need attention and how would you propose to address the problem? The biggest global concern that needs attention is the runaway abuses that are occurring at the hands of business.

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Stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility ethics

Positioning Stakeholder Theory within the Debate on Corporate Social Responsibility by Branco & Rodrigues (2007) argues that corporations should take a total stakeholder view when considering their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

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Sustainability as an integrated framework for business, environment, and society

Across the globe there continues to be a crescendo in the discussion by political and business leaders, academics, the science community, and ordinary citizens regarding the notion of sustainability.

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Employee privacy versus workplace monitoring spyware ethics

The question of whether or not it is right for a company to put spyware on all of its employee's workstation computers in order to detect private usage and so increase productivity -- or at the very least stem the loss of work hours due to private use -- that the company believes is occurring is…

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Workplace diversity: ethical imperatives and business advantages

Cultural and individual diversity in the contemporary business environment and workplace is a topic of debate in many companies today. It is a subject that is often to be found in journals and literature on modern business.

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Strategic philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in business

Stockholders understandably might resist a program of strategic philanthropy, seeing it as a dilution of stock value and a diversion of funds from a form that the company can use to one where the company is simply giving these funds to others.

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