1,277 words

Advertising's negative influence on society and consumer behavior

Generally, advertising has been part of economies across the globe since the commencement of trade as merchants have primarily sorted out the benefits of their goods in the marketplace.

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 754 words

Workplace Idle Time: An Employee's Ethical Framework

An employee explores the ethics of downtime at work, balancing guilt over idle hours with realistic workplace cycles and quality performance standards.

Ethics

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,853 words

Public Relations: From Manipulation to an Ethical Profession

Examines how public relations evolved from P.T. Barnum-era publicity stunts to a credible, ethics-driven profession guided by codes of conduct and research.

Communications

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 751 words

Arrington's Defense of Advertising: A Critical Analysis

A critical analysis of Robert Arrington's "Advertising and Behavior Control," examining his autonomy-based defense of advertising and its key weaknesses.

Ethics

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,063 words

Ethical Issues in Accounting: Budgeting and Projections

Explores ethical obligations of accountants when projection errors occur, using AICPA and IMA standards to analyze stakeholder impacts and professional conduct.

Accounting

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,246 words

Managing the Contractor-Customer Relationship in Outsourcing

Explores ethics, benefits, communication, and risks in contractor-customer relationships, with guidance on outsourcing due diligence and vendor management.

Business

~12 min read

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662 words

Employee confidentiality agreements and ethical conflicts in military service

As a standard rule, employee managers generally require new workers to sign an agreement or contract to ensure the safety of the company and employee in terms of confidential information. In employment contracts, there are generally two main interested parties: the employer and the employee.

~4 min read

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932 words

Ethical analysis of pump-and-dump stock market schemes

With respect to outcomes, the moral issue is that the analyst, if guilty of executing a pump-and-dump, is knowingly increasing his profit with the knowledge that many viewers will not sell at the right time and will consequently lose money.

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734 words

Ethical leadership and moral principles in military interactions with civilians and prisoners

The field of ethics is extremely complex and it has applications in all domains of life, including social interactions, as well business and military ones. The military filed is renowned for its high levels of discipline, which consequently implies high moral values.

~4 min read

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1,739 words

Ethical contradictions in Monsanto's corporate practices and policies

Monsanto (NYSE: MON) is one of the largest food production companies in the world, if not the largest. The company, based out of St. Louis, is a global conglomerate with subsidiaries operating around the world.

~9 min read

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