It is obvious that all researchers will wish to be seen as behaving in an ethical manner, but in reality this is a difficult judgement as it is a subjective interpretation of the behavior and actions of the researcher in both their research and their reasoning and purpose behind the research. It is for this reason that the design of research projects should be undertaken not only with the determination of the goals in mind, but also a recognition of the biases, both social and personal that may influence the completion of the project as well as the interpretation of the results (Brown et al
It is agreed by scholars that the ethics should be seen to have certain guidelines and rules to enable us to understand the behavior and live by the rules to avoid any confusion and dispute. Therefore to simplify, ethical principles are set out to allow for what is to be considered as honourable, honest and socially acceptable practices (Hayes & Orell PG)
The practice is highly unethical because it allows the individuals involved to profit in the process of causing significant harm to other stakeholders: the shareholders of the companies left with worthless stock, employees of both companies not involved, and the general public, by depriving licenses to companies legitimately interested in pursuing a business model based on telecom licenses. The government officials involved violated their fiduciary duties (Halbert & Ingulli, 2009) to the general public and to the national government
Therefore, the best approach to reducing the risk of this type of unethical conduct would be to make sure that penal laws and civil liability laws impose severe enough penalties to deter those inclined to this type of unethical practice so that the risks of the consequences outweigh the possible benefits or financial profit associated with those practices. Payroll Manager Embezzlement A female external operations manager of a UAE company was charged with having embezzled millions of dollars from corporate accounts in connection with her payroll responsibilities that gave her access and control over those funds (Kumar, 2008)
Ideally, those levels of oversight should include formal protocols and individual responsibility for oversights at every level because that promotes conscientious compliance (Svensson & Wood, 2008). Employee Charged with Pilfering Recharge Cards Throughout most of 2009, a 26-year-old Syrian sales executive perpetrated fraud by embezzling funds from his employer (Nammour, 2011)
Business Ethics Issues A Company's Scandal in India Telecom rights are a valuable asset that is typically strictly controlled by national governments. Currently, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been engaged in investigating and prosecuting the unauthorized sale of telecommunications licenses in connection with the illegal practice of bribery in the selling of licenses to entities that were not rightfully eligible for those licenses (Sahota, 2012)
Therefore, the best course of action would be to install oversight mechanisms and protocols capable of detecting payroll theft immediately instead of relying so long on the expectation that employees with access and control of substantial funds will necessarily adhere to fundamental ethical and legal business practices. Typical examples of solutions that could be implemented in the future to prevent this vulnerability would be departmental audits and deliberately redundant levels of immediate oversight (Svensson & Wood, 2008)
This text will concern itself with the Balanced Scorecard and the Triple Bottom Line. Components of the Balanced Scorecard and the Triple Bottom Line and How they Can be Utilized to Enhance Ethics and Business Performance The Balanced Scorecard, in basic terms, "is a management system that focuses on all the elements that contribute to organizational performance and success including financial, customer, market, and internal processes" (Ferrell, Fraedrich and Ferrell, 2014, p
249). The four key components of the Balanced Scorecard include: the financial perspective, the customer perspective, the learning and growth perspective, and the internal business perspective (Jackson, Sawyers, and Jenkins, 2008)
Accordingly, we are guided by the definition offered in the text by Brennan & Lo (2002), which establishes that "environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents." (Brennan & Lo, 1) in other words, prior to the inception of a popular environmental movement, the notion that we as a species have a responsibility to live in harmony with rather than in dominion over our surroundings would be broached in the philosophical context first
In the town the doctors had become more and more puzzled by new kinds of sickness appearing among their patients." (Carson, 2) That the correlation between these collected symptoms and the use of pesticides in our predominantly agricultural towns had yet to be recognized at this point in history is important to consider
Ideologies may surge and flow across the face of these realities, but environmental issues cannot be argued or deconstructed away." (Peritore, 30)
This morass of conditions denotes that "while we should not necessarily be sanguine about environmental protection in developing countries, we need not be pessimistic either." (Warshawsky, 114) This is to say that the international community is increasingly drawing to a consensus on the need to curb behaviors which have are causing trauma to the environment, with the leadership change from Bush to Obama in the United States promising significant new level of improvement in regulatory enforcement
The simplest solution to any suspect change is, of course, to stop it, or better yet, to revert to a romanticized past: make those ugly gasoline stations look like Anne Hathaway's cottage or (in the Far West) like ghost-town saloons." (White, 2) This point of focus is a useful one for beginning to understand the orientation of such nations as the U
The increase is a demonstration of how unreliable oil is not just in terms of its lack of sustainability but in terms of its negative economic implications, which associate it to dangers of economic inflation. (Whitehall, 1) This denotes that the ecological effects of America's poor orientation toward environmental ethics have clearly identifiable economic consequences as well
For example, take Enron. Enron's board of directors virtually waved the corporate Code of Ethics to allow Enron financial officers to complete the now famous off-balance-sheet deals that ultimately led to their bankruptcy (Williams, 2005)
It is recommended that Earth Friendly Foods maintain proper records and ensure their accessibility as a measure of preventing the contamination for instance from Salmonella Enterica. Compliance to this record keeping measure should be ensured by frequent monitoring and auditing of the records and their accessibility should be guaranteed by the requirement of the managers to submit frequent and regular summaries of the reports to the CEO of Earth Friendly Foods (Espinoza)
There is hence a need to institute a corporate ethics program that will establish the operations standards and grant Earth Friendly a competitive advantage while still being low cost, easy to implement and evaluate. Lack of accessibility of relevant information to the outbreak investigators exacerbates the situation further by making it difficult to assess the situation (Fusaro)
The expected behavior change from the second recommendation is the maintaining of proper records and making them accessible to the relevant parties. The executives will be expected to submit the proper summaries of the records to the CEO so as they can be evaluated and acted by the investigators whenever they are needed (Jackson 1229)
RECOMMENDATIONS Proper training of employees in personal hygiene and prevention of microbial contamination of produce When the employees of Earth Friendly Foods have proper knowledge and skills to handle food without causing contamination, then the infection spread can be controlled. This will also impact positively to the consumers trust when Earth Friendly Foods employees' are perceived as being well trained in the matters of personal hygiene (McNamara)