...By definition, an ethical dilemma is a situation that will often involve an apparent conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. When one combines this definition with the many problems employees and management face on a daily basis, you are bound to have plenty of examples for many different kinds of businesses, regardless of what the business is or the line of work. This internal conflict that people experience can cause many issues in today’s workplace, and in the next few paragraphs I will explain how, why, and produce some examples. One of the most popular examples of an ethical dilemma is the story of the man whose family is starving and he steals a loaf of bread for his family’s survival. At its core, this example covers all the bases: conflicting imperatives with regards to a need for food and breaking the law by stealing the food. There can be arguments made on both sides with no clear decision on what the right thing to do would be. When translated into today’s work environment, employed persons have conflicting thoughts and feelings every day because they face problems at work but also in their personal lives as well. Anytime one has two completely different sets of problems their chances for an ethical dilemma will rise. According to Puja Lalwani, who writes articles for buzzle.com, “A lot of people believe that there is no room for ethics in the workplace. In a world of fierce competition where everyone...
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...Reducing cultural shock with global brands and advertising Eliane Karsaklian - Advancia-Negocia Abstract This paper aims at demonstrating that expatriates represent a specific target for companies as they tend to consume global brands during their stay abroad in order to avoid cultural shock and thus should be addressed with specific communication. The literature review articulates global brands and advertising with cultural shock, explained on the basis of Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner’s dilemmas’ theory. The qualitative method used in this research were 53 in-depth interviews. Results demonstrated that expatriates relay on well-known brands to adapt to new environments when they are abroad and that specific advertising help them to reconcile dilemmas. Key words: Global brands, advertising, expatriates, cultural shock Introduction Economic and social factors are working to increase global competition and global operations, and subsequently an acceleration of traffic in expatriation and repatriation. Johansson and Ronkainen (2005) state that research shows that one of the most common features of a globally integrated marketing strategy is the adoption of one brand name around the world, whereas Callow and Schiffman (2002) talk about how advertising interpretations are dependent on cultural factors of the viewer. Therefore, the present paper is relevant because it demonstrates that particular attention should be drawn to expatriates during their sojourn abroad. While struggling...
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...and Teacher Education 27 (2011) 648e656 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Teaching and Teacher Education journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tate Teachers’ critical incidents: Ethical dilemmas in teaching practice Orly Shapira-Lishchinsky 1 Department of Educational Administration, Leadership and Policy, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Received 21 March 2010 Received in revised form 10 November 2010 Accepted 11 November 2010 The aim of this study is to explore ethical dilemmas in critical incidents and the emerged responses that these incidents elicit. Most teachers try to suppress these incidences because of the unpleasant feelings they evoke. Fifty teachers participated in the study. A three-stage coding process derived from grounded theory was utilized. A taxonomy of critical incidents by means of the ATLAS.ti 5.0 revealed a multifaceted model of ethical dilemmas, among them clashing with rules, standards, or norms in school, as well as a multitude of derived responses. The results encourage the development of educational programmes based on teachers’ critical incidents. Ó 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Teaching Ethics Ethical knowledge Ethical dilemmas Schools 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical background Teachers deal with many ethical problems in their practice. They encounter issues such as inappropriate allocation of resources, situations in which...
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...which invisibly saved people’s money. In addition, the true value of smart-phones is more than these. There are two most popular operating system using in smart-phones which are Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Based on these two major operating system, customers could download and run thousands of applications on their smart-phones. Apple, for example, added software to its products as extra value to make profit from customers. “Users spent $10 billion last year in the App Store, with $1 billion coming in December alone.” (Brustein, J, 2014). Customers are willing to pay the applications on App Store; however, they have no idea that the company is tracking their locations, habits, and friends. Allegation of Fact Apple has a big database to collect big data from all of its customers. When customers run an application, the tracking technology hiding in the software can automatically detect their whereabouts back to the Apple’s database though the Internet. The official statement of Apple and Google is that...
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...major problems in bringing up its new system. Is there a lesson here for organizations seeking to adopt new information technology? What is it? 6. What should Lassiter do now? Case Study 11-1- Vendor-Managed Inventory at NIBCO 1. What was the catalyst for NIBCO to develop a VMI program, and why was it able to respond? 2. Describe what types of transactions are involved in NIBCO's VMI program. 3. What types of benefits have been attributed to the VMI initiative-for both NIBCO and NIBCO's customers? 4. What new initiatives would you recommend that NIBCO pursue next to continue to take advantage of its current IT capabilities? Case Study 11-2- Real-Time Business Intelligence at Continental Airlines 1. Describe "active" data warehousing as it is applied at Continental...
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...European University | Googles HR Dilemma | Management Skills – Case 02 | | Sousan Shabi, Benazzouz Zouhair & Lukas Fischer | 11/2/2014 | | During his last interview the Human resources director of Google told the world that we have only 0,2% chances to get hired in his company, he stated that each year Google receives 3 millions job applies and that they hire only 7000 out of the 3 millions. Everybody wants to work for Google, the video posted on internet on the work conditions there make us all dream, but why ? In this part we are going to analyze that corporate culture of Google envies by all. Let us first talk about the first aspects of this culture, which shows up in the text through the eyes of Mister Schmitt who discovered that each Friday the co founders Larry and Sergey would organize meetings to share the company progress with all the employees and that on some occasion they would share detailed financial analysis with them. This shows a spirit of transparency and a need of sharing all details giving to all employees enough data to see how they would make this progression even bigger. Most companies don’t do that or at least they stop at a certain hierarchal level, showing those kind of progress to only top managers and the board. This was not the case of Google since the very beginning, it became in the early stages of the company part of it culture, so much that Schmitt could not do anything about it. This founders action leaded to the organization...
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...tab on the prisoners, so necessary for an efficient jail system. The primary goal of prison management is to incapacitate inmates while providing rehabilitation and programs; however the goal of maintaining control within the prison system takes precedence over rehabilitation and treatment (Craig 2004, 92S). The activities of the Nigeria Prison’s services in terms of records keeping has for a long time been a huge problem to the service as there are no proper facilities in place to ensure that they are able to store and retrieve information on prisoners very quickly. Prison system models provide conceptual clarity regarding the complex workings of the prison system as well as the strains on and dilemmas of each system (Steele and Jacobs 1975). Record keeping are still done using big old files which have to be shelved once that file is full and then replaced with another and so when the need comes to get information on prisoner’s, they will have to look through the old files according to the dates they assume the information could have been stored and then go through all files that were recorded during that period until the file is found. This very tiring and time consuming activity usually leaves them with no other option but to record the prisoner details again in a new file to avoid going through so much stress but...
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...objective of Bandon Divisions is to provide office information systems and offer value-added services and technology integration according to the specific needs of their customers in particular markets. Bandon Group targets at mid-market companies by offering mid-tier equipment at reasonable prices and they have earned a good reputation through their quality-manufactured products with at cost-effective prices. With the continuous development of Bandon Group, a commercial off-the shelf package is in need to support administrative information systems of Bandon Group, so Office Machines Dealership (OMD), which supports the meter-based billing application, is adopted. By 2010, the four divisions were connected to the central OMD system, but data migration was hard to achieve due to its lack of flexibility. Under the decentralized sales strategy, divisions begin to adopt different sales tools to boost their sales volume in their respective market. Although Pivotal, a sale prospecting system was introduced to all of the divisions, it was used to a varying degree and worked for various purposes. For example, at Bandon Phoenix, Pivotal applications enable sales forecasting, customer retention, sales analysis and sale compensation. At Bandon Portland, a new Microsoft CRM package is used. Microsoft CRM is compatible with Microsoft Office application, but is fails to integrate with the proprietary OMD database. At Bandon Salt Lake, a sales prospecting package named Soaring package is...
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...Ethics, Moral Dilemmas, and Tough Decisions: The Many Challenges on Working on IT I. Introduction Information technology in combination with changes in organizational structures and methods of working has led to an increasing amount of information and also to totally new forms of information and in the creation of records. Much of the information previously produced on paper is now being produced in electronic form, for example as e-mail and in databases. The Dutch archive theoretician Eric Ketelaar [1999] has invented the word “archivalisation” to describe the phenomenon where more and more material is deemed to be worthy of documenting and archiving. This means that a considerably larger amount of information requires handling. Electronically generated and stored information is also exposed to change and manipulation in quite a different way to that involved with paper-bound information. The e-government services, where the whole idea is to exchange information electronically, will radically redirect paperbound information and documents towards electronically generated and managed information and documents. A 10-year period is a long time when dealing with the preservation of electronic records. This is of course due to the rapid technological development, and includes, for example, the problems associated with obsolete software and file formats. Goldstein [2004]0 stresses the need for a quick solution to the problem of archiving electronic information for the future...
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...I. Abstract This qualitative exploratory study examines why the luxury online shopping industry has not been more successful in today’s highly digital age. A literature review as well as, a self-conducted study will be used to address this question. First, literature is presented on what luxury goods are and what factors motivate people to consume luxury brands. Next, research is used to describe the consumers of luxury shopping online. Following this, the literature review covers three dilemmas when using the Internet to sell luxury brands. The first describes whether or not brand integrity is diluted on the Internet because of the ability for everyone to have access to these luxury products. The second dilemma concerns whether or not the sensory nature of the luxury shopping experience can be translated onto the Internet. And the third deals with the Internet’s inherent ubiquity and whether that compromises the exclusivity of what luxury brands stand for. Finally, existing literature is used to demonstrate how to measure service quality on the Internet as well as propose web site design issues faced by online retailers. The following section, Section V, describes the research method used in this study to explore how well the design of luxury e-stores meets customer expectations, while conveying the luxury consumption factors without the sensory aspects of a traditional store. The results of this study show that luxury e-stores have a long way to go in terms of replicating the...
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...There is little doubt that technological advances have made our lives easier. Thanks to them the world has become a much smaller place. We can now traverse the Oceans in a matter of hours. We can stay up to the minute with current affairs via the expansive news networks available through various media, including the internet. Gone are the days of the home based phone being our only option to communicate (voice) with loved ones and friends. Think of a world without heat in the winter and air conditioners in the summer. It existed believe it or not! A lot of our manual tasks are taken up by machines, which manufacture, assemble and pack the products for them. People are leading longer and healthier lives due to development of vaccines and availability of state of the art surgical equipment. The advent of technological era has brought many changes which have made a considerable impact on human life. If we take each of these advances and look into their history, it is very likely, if not guaranteed, that we will find predecessors that were improved upon through innovations of the particular technology. Those advances would have been considered transformational and the innovations would have been cutting edge. Throughout history, humanity has sought to better itself through science and technology, well before those terms even existed. Prehistoric man’s quest for survival could be argued to be the building block for our desire to innovate. Man needed to eat, so he ate berries...
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...TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES College of Engineering and Architecture ANALYSIS IN tire gasification process for alternative electrical energy Megaminds Alorsabes, Danlor P. | | Assistant | Beltran, Andryn Jill D. | | Hardware & Interface 2 | Calaoagan, Saulo N. | | Software 2 | Corporal, Zarah Minette T. | | Scribe 1 | Mabango, Ma. Sholly Louie Rose S. | | Logistic | Marquez, Justine Anne A. | | Leader | Masanque, Marivic | | Treasurer | Sabello, Irizz B. | | Hardware & Interface 1 | Sugay, Emmanuel Jr. M. | | Software 1 | Tria, Kim Keryll G. | | Scribe 2 | Abstract Renewable energy has been a tough challenge to everyone not only here in the Philippines but for the entire world. This dilemma basically answers a big question of how to produce an alternative energy without sacrificing the environment’s status qou. Last 2008, former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 (Republic Act 9531) which seeks to promote the development of renewable energy resources and its commercialization. It aims to achieve this by providing incentives to institutions that invest in the sector. Sources of renewable energy include the sun, wind, bodies of water, organic matter and the earth’s heat. The campaign for this energy saving and energy producing with a minimal environmental effect has been a trend in today’s rampant consumption of energy generation. In relation to this, the challenge has been shared not only to those...
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...| Syllabus School of Business ECO/561 Version 7 Economics | Copyright © 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course applies economic concepts to make management decisions. Students employ the concepts of scarce resources and opportunity costs to perform economic analysis. Other topics include supply and demand, profit maximization, market structure, macroeconomic measurement, money, trade, and foreign exchange. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. The discussion question points are now combined with the participation points for each week. You, as the instructor, may create a separate line item for discussion question points if you choose. Please note that some assignment points may have changed. Course Materials Ball, L. M. (2009). Money, banking, and financial markets. New York, NY: Worth Publishers. McConnell...
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...the dirty deals and sketchy personal agendas keeps you out of trouble and within respectable name sake. Maintaining both personal and professional relationships is incredible important to a person’s overall happiness. Being unable to find that personal balance of work and play is a make or break for goals of success. Without our ability as human beings to adapt, we would have been wiped off of this planet a long time ago. Effectively reading and reacting to a situation takes awareness, experience, and proper instincts. All of these lessons pertained to professional life as well as real life. In a perfect world, the ethics discussion portrays the simple comic book difference between light and dark. It should be a classic battle of good versus evil, but Business Ethics, in the reality, is mostly made up of gray area. Some people use the rules of ethics to find legislative loopholes, and others are guided by a moral compass steering them in the right direction. Ethics are determined by social norms of the public. To me, that means that sometimes you really don’t know you’ve done something wrong until the deed is done and the public governs your decision as either clever or unethical. I never really understood it until the blunt truth was told in...
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...Case 13-02 Buck’s Dilemma: Gross or Net? Background Buck’s Hunting and Equipment Inc. (Buck) has determined that it’s time to expand their retail operations. Buck is planning to build several retail stores over the next three years. In order execute their plan, Buck entered into a $100 million, three-year revolving line of credit (the Facility) with their bank on January 1, 2010. Buck and his auditor and management would like to know how to book presentation of cash flows through the use of a revolving line of credit is whether to report the amounts borrowed and repaid on a net basis or on a gross basis. FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification 230-10-45-7 states “information about the gross amounts of cash receipts and cash payments during a period is more relevant than information about the net amounts of cash receipts and payments.” (FASB, ASC 230-10-45-7). However it is often enough to report the net amount of these cash receipts and payments. ASC 230-10-45-8 states that net presentation if appropriate when there is a quick turnover with large amounts and short maturities. Solution 1 — Classification with the Statement of Cash Flows Buck should present the borrowing and payment activity as a cash flow from financing activities. ASC 230-10-45-14 states that “proceeds from issuing bonds, mortgages, notes, and from other short- or long-term borrowing” are a cash inflow from financing activities. Similarly, ASC 230-10-45-15 states that “repayments of amounts...
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