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Drug Testing in the Workplace: Ethics and Privacy Concerns

Explores drug testing in the workplace through five ethical theories—utilitarianism, Kantianism, libertarianism, Rawls, and egoism—balancing safety and privacy.

Ethics

~6 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 673 words

Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Strategy Tools

Explores CSR measurement challenges, stakeholder vs. shareholder perspectives, and B corporations as a framework for evaluating social responsibility's business impact.

Business

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,612 words

Social Media Background Checks and Hiring Ethics

Explores how a hiring manager applies utilitarian and Golden Rule frameworks to evaluate a candidate's social media activity during a job selection decision.

Ethics

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,642 words

Theory vs. Practice in Small Business Management

An interview-based analysis comparing small business management theory to real-world practice, covering multitasking, CSR, BPM, ethics, and HR challenges.

Business

~14 min read

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662 words

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.

~4 min read

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1,265 words

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.

~7 min read

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679 words

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.

~4 min read

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633 words

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…

~4 min read

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1,503 words

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.

~8 min read

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826 words

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.

~5 min read

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