...Desperate Air Case In the Desperate Air case, As the Vice President of Real Estate at Desperate Air Corporation, Nash is facing with ethical dilemmas, and there are some moral reasoning about the conflict of personal and business ethics. Nash was told that pending sale of Florida property potentially had toxic waste buried beneath the surface. Thus, should he mention the hazardous materials to the Fledgling representative before he closed the sale? In my opinion, if I was in George Nash’s position, I would proceed with the sale without disclosing the information regarding what I had heard about the toxic waste. Using Deckop’s decision making models, the ethical decision-making may meet three goals: utilitarianism, profit maximization, and universalism. This means that if people use different perspectives, they would make different decisions. Profit maximization is actually a subset of utilitarianism, and the utilitarian is often portrayed figuratively as holding a scale, with the benefits on one side being weighed against the harm on the other. According to the profit maximization point of view, compared to harm, the decision may bring more benefit. In this case, Nash is conflicted between remaining silent and closing the sale immediately. Remaining silent will help his company stay solvent which in turns results in people remaining employed. Nash also have responsibilities to the company and employees. While speaking up and informing Fledgling about the toxic waste could delay...
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...Desperate Air Corporation (DAC) flies routes along the U.S. East Coast. DAC acquired a number of hotels and undeveloped properties five years ago as part of a short-lived diversification strategy (Halbert & Ingulli, 2008). DAC has previously experienced considerable losses such as cash flow and bankruptcies. DAC owns a large, undeveloped oceanfront property on the east coast of Florida, which is up for sale. Brenton Williams is the CEO of Desperate Air Corporation. George Nash is vice president of real estate. Williams has assigned Nash to find a buyer for the property. The corporation currently is in desperate need of the money, so the property has to be sold. After some searching Nash a good prospect for the property, he finds Fledgling Industries who is a new developer for retirement villas. Fledgling is interested in a property for a retirement condos that included walking trails and recreational facilities. DAC conducted an Audit on the property and found no problems, a fledgling representative also found no problems. However a friend of Nash walked the trails after a rumor and found buried metal containers marked DANGER/BIOHAZARD, RADIOACTIVE MEDICAL WASTE....
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...Desperate Air Managers are constantly faced with ethical dilemmas. The book, Managing Business Ethics: Straight talk how to do it right, defines an ethical dilemma as a situation when two or more “right” values are in conflict (Trevino & Nelson, 2010). A decision can sometimes be legally correct, but it does mean it is always ethically correct. A decision may not always maximize the benefits to society or stakeholders. In the following essay, I will review Dash decision and how the RDCAR approach helps me make a better decision. The case of Desperate Air Corporation (DAC) is a company going through financial difficulties. In hopes to turn the company around the CEO, Benton Williams, wants to sell a large underdeveloped ocean front property on the east coast of Florida (McGraw-Hill). He requests DAC’s Vice President of Real Estate, George Nash, to find a buyer. Nash is able to find a buyer. A developer, Fledgling Industries, wants to turn the land into condominiums, walking trails and recreational facilities (McGraw-Hill). DAC had conducted a full environmental review of the land and found no problems. The buyer and the seller proceeded to negotiate with the sale. During the early stages of negotiations, Dash finds out that the land had toxic waste. Dash confirmed the news by walking over to the site and sees signs of radioactive medical waste. Dash reported his findings to Williams and Williams made it clear to Dash that this sale needs to happen. The state of Florida does...
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...Desperate Air: What would I do? Management is often faced with ethical dilemmas that have no clear cut correct answer. In our case study, (1)Desperate Air, George Nash, Vice President of Real Estate faces a conflict of values similar to the CEO in Seglin’s article, “How to Make Tough Ethical Calls”. They both want to tell the truth and they want to protect their companies, their investors, their employees, and their own livelihood. Neither Mr. Nash nor the CEO conducted a through examination of the problem they faced. I believe the decision to remain silent made by both Nash and the CEO to be short sighted, based solely on short term profit, and would not have been the route I would have taken. Given the same set of circumstances Nash faced, I would have applied the RDCAR framework discussed in our lecture- acknowledged the problem, assembled information, performed a thorough evaluation of the information and situation, supported an ethical resolution internally and reflected on the results of the outcome before making a recommendation to management. Nash correctly recognized the ethical predicament he was faced. He learned that toxic waste was seeping into the ground of the property that his company needs to sell in order to delay becoming bankrupt. He is conflicted between remaining silent and closing the sale immediately. Remaining silent will help his company stay solvent which in turns results in people (including himself) remaining employed. While speaking...
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...Bithja Laurent MGMT6213 Desperate Air 2/14/16 The hypothetical given in Desperate Air mimics the scenario displayed in the “How to Make Tough Ethical Calls” article written by Jeffrey L. Seglin. In hindsight, the easiest possible answer is to avoid disclosing matters that are non-material. The Florida law does not require disclosure of hazardous substances on commercial property so long as there hasn’t been a fraudulent misstatement about the condition of the property. In retrospect, good ethical practice does considers that if there is the faintest question about whether or not to disclose an issue to potential buyers, avoid the potential for liability and tell all. (NOLO) Generally, a seller is responsible for disclosing only information within his/her personal knowledge. (NOLO) So what is a person to do in this case, where Nash was informed about the toxic waste on the property but was instructed by a DAC lawyer that it is not required to disclose? Let’s first consider the facts before a decision is rendered. As mentioned, the Florida law does not require a disclosure. However, I believe there are different factors at hand that may overrule that law. One factor to consider is conducting negotiations under good faith. This rule requires parties to act honestly. During negotiations, Nash provided Fledgling with a copy of the full environment audit report that was conducted 6 months ago. By providing that document, it demonstrated that Nash began the negations under good...
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...those who turned to systematic use of suicide warfare, lost their war. In addition to the Japanese Kamikaze pilots air campaign, the essay also explores other suicide weapons and tactics in World War 2, and the military and cultural rationale of suicide warfare, in order to better understand this type of fanatic threat that the free world is facing once again. Kamikaze pilots - Japan's last weapon Kamikaze, which means "Divine Wind" in Japanese, was Japan's last attempt to balance the ever increasing technological and material advantage of the American forces advancing to Japan. The Kamikaze attack tactic was suggested on October 19, 1944, by vice-Admiral Onishi of the Japanese Navy, when he was assigned to command the air attacks against the huge American invasion fleet off the Philippines, and then realized that he had less than 100 operational aircraft for this task. There was no way to sink or even severely damage the American fleet in any conventional tactic, so the Admiral needed a force multiplier, a way to get a significantly greater striking power from a given force. The solution was obvious. Guided weapons provide dramatically greater accuracy and lethality than unguided weapons, producing much greater damage per weapon unit and per sortie. Such weapons already existed and were operational for over a year then, but not in Japan. The German Air Force successfully used large radio-guided Fritz-X bombs against battleships and cruisers since September 1943, but...
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...Analysis of Case Study for International Business By Assistant Professor Asif Mahbub Karim MBA, CA(Inter.), KPMG, MCFC,MBA, B.Com. PhD Research Fellow, Malaysia Coordinator – BBA & MBA Program Stamford University Bangladesh Introduction Background of the Case Established in 1972. Company has $10 billion in annual revenue. It sells in 140 countries. It only Sub Contracts. Employs 550,000 all around. Mission Statement “ Just Do It “ Accusations !! Products are made in Sweatshops. Many are Child Worker. Work in hazardous condition. Less than Subsistence Wages. Nike have become symbol of Evils of Globalization. Global Exchange – A Human Right Organization targeted Nike for repeated critisicm. Accusations !! The condition at foreign factories was at stake. Subcontractors were not matching minimum local labor laws. Long working hours. Working environment very poor. Minimum Wage rate very low. Safety & Security compliances not followed. Case Against Nike In search of cheap labor Nike looks factories as such in target countries where minimum wage level is not set. Targeting literate , disciplined and desperate job seekers. Mostly young women are hired. Labors don’t share Nike’s huge profit. They work 6 days a week for only $40 a month - just 20 cents an hour. Attack on Nike’s Sub Contracting Some factories were employing 11 years old labors in Indonesia for their sneakers. Wage...
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...full-time employment grew by 2.0% (+274,000). Social and Demographics: Marketing communications has always played a key role in creating an image to attract a target market. Budweiser and Bud Lite are popular brands in the NFL and NASCAR, and true fans will then purchase those specific brands. It becomes their brand of choice. Labatt Blue had sponsorship ties with the NHL and Canadian teams and the CFL and several teams but recently, Molson has taken over the sponsorship of The Toronto Maple Leafs, which Labatt used to have. This was a huge loss for the company as Toronto is the largest city in Canada and generates one-fifth of the gross domestic product of Canada. This being said, The Air Canada Center sells Molson Canadian rather than Labatt at hockey games. There are 18,800 seats at the Air Canada Center, and say at least 16,000 people purchase at least one beer, which costs $8.00, that is $128,000 in sales that Labatt...
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...The Comeback of Global Warming (Global Warming vs. the environmental “solutions”) Who could turn or live back 50 decades ago without technologic advances, mass media invention and the most important pure air? Sometimes I spend time with my grandmother who lives in the interior of the island of Puerto Rico and I enjoy what she tells me her stories about her youth and the environment where she was surrounded. Suddenly she expresses me how she misses living in those times, when she used to go to the rivers to pass the day in the water or in simple a fun water puddle, enjoying the nature. It’s sad and lamentable what we have to see and hear about the damage of our planet. How Mother Nature is decaying in her environment and shows sense of impotency of doing something for fighting. By the time we are letting ourselves go with the hope with the ambitious government plans, dubious magnates’ idea and investments or should we call it environment sciences? The truth is that if we find the certain solutions maybe we won’t find them anywhere near of us. Most solutions pretend to have the best intentions to help better the environment and at the same time minimized the global warming. As for example, the fluorescent lamps may help to limit the consume of energy but however it contains mercury substances which can affect negatively the environment, limiting the ways to its maintenance. Others, try to executes the use of natural gas which is visualize like one excellent solution in...
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...markets. However, most parts suppliers do more business selling replacement parts to airlines than selling original equipment to Boeing and Airbus, so the airframe makers do not have an iron grip on their suppliers. When the airline industry does well and orders more planes from Airbus and Boeing, parts suppliers can negotiate more favourable supplier contracts for themselves. All airlines employ various subcontractors around the world to complete parts of production which will be finally assembled at their assembly plants. But the usage of rare resources such as carbon-fibre and requirement for specialized facilities for production has shifted the bargaining power towards the suppliers. In addition, the high switching costs of airliners in case of moving to other suppliers has increased bargaining power of suppliers. Customers are also price sensitive. Aviation Turbine Fuel prices constitute around 80% of the total operating costs of Airline Industry. The industry has lately been plagued with high ATF prices which have...
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...2012 Zurich-Noch Airport Case study Team Name: Sparta Submitted by: Aman Jhalani Anshul Choubey Mayank Tyagi Date of Submission: 1 March’12 INTRODUCTION The case here deals with improving the business performance of a Swiss based airport Zurich-Noch, which lies outside the Euro Zone. The airport began as a flying club in 1930s and then extending its service to provide schedules within central Europe. By 1989 the airport was handling 500,000 passengers per year. It is forecast to increase to 3.5 million for both incoming and outgoing passengers in the current financial year to 30 June 2011. The airport mainly serves holiday makers flying to destinations within Europe and only 5% of the passengers who use the airport are business travellers. The company is not listed in the stock exchange and is a joint venture of a group of four local governments known as LSGs which are divided into four geographical zones. The board of directors proposed a development plan in 2009 and aimed at gradual and phased development of airport company. Assumption Used in Analysis: The airport is assumed to be unaffected by the Euro Zone crisis which is currently prevailing in Europe and may well be extended to 2 or 3 years more down the line. The maximum airlines with which the airport deals are assumed to be affected by the Euro zone crisis. Positive inflation is assumed so the factors of cost are expected to increase subsequently. The strategic development...
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...least organized citizens, such as domestic workers, sharecroppers, new immigrants, blacks, and unmarried women, reaped few of the New Deal benefits. FDR's great experiments, then, did not end the Great Depression. Only mobilization for a world war would bring an end to the most devastating economic crisis in United States history. In late 1939, a full two years before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided it would be necessary—and perhaps wise—to invest time and money into national defense. Despite his promise to keep the nation out of the war escalating abroad, Roosevelt carefully and deliberately prepared the country for a worst-case scenario. By the spring of 1940, he convinced Congress to increase defense spending, enlarge the army, and expand the U.S. military air fleet. Through billions of dollars in federal spending—largely focused on rearmament and national security—he managed to funnel money into a peacetime draft, increase wages for military personnel, offer subsidies for defense manufacturing, and grant loans to aid Great Britain and the Soviet Union. (Not exactly invoking neutrality in his decision to assist the...
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...1 The American Red Cross Dr. Jack Huddleston Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Case July 21, 2013 2 1. Determine the impact of this event on ARC’s “benefits of business ethics” (employee commitment, investor loyalty, customer satisfaction, and bottom line). The American Red Cross (ARC), also identified as the “The Face of Recovery”, is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. The ARC is a non-profit organization that offers services in five areas of society. The community service sector helps citizens that are in need. In the communication sectors, the ARC provides comfort for military members and their families. The collection, processing and distribution of blood and blood products are also services provided by the ARC. There are also educational services on preparedness, health, and safety which are imperative for recovery acts. Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic Hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes. Hurricane Rita hit the coast of Louisiana and Texas only a month later and was even larger category 3 storm (Ferrell, Ferrell, Fraedrich 2011). The ARC raised more than 2 billion in private donations to fund massive relied efforts for both these disasters...
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...You’re crushing me!” I frantically tried to move and shift the bodies on top of me. I couldn’t breathe. “Mercy! Mercy!” I begged, but the bodies on top of me ignored my pleas and shoved those on top of them. ”Mercy!” again, my cries were futile, no one took their weight off of me. I struggled and cradled the violin case against me, but the weight was only pressing down harder. I, Juliek Von Abramvich, was about to die. But, it wasn’t my life I was worried about, that “Juliek! Can you hear me Juliek?” I was so tired.Why couldn’t I just slip into a dreamless eternal sleep? But no, something in Eliezer’s voice compelled me to at least give him a feeble answer of, “Yes… What do you want?” Breath was something I was in short supply of....
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...There are many types of engines and fuels in today’s world that people can use to be more environmentally friendly. For example bio diesel was created because regular diesel fuel was making so much bad emissions that is harming the air quality and the environment. So they create it to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions for diesel vehicles. Diesel engines are more complex than a normal car engine. Instead of spark to start the engine like normal cars, a Diesel engine uses what’s called diesel compression. It’s what you need for the diesel engine to start. Instead of a spark plug it uses compression to heat up the cylinder to ignite the fuel, there is no need for a spark plug. But in the winter when it’s cold, they do have glow plug. All the glow plugs do is heat the cylinder up enough to get the fuel to ignite. Also Diesel engines run at a much higher compression than gas engines do. A diesel engine typically runs 16:1-23:1 or 250-350 psi. (Robert Baker February 2010) Biodiesel is made from used cooking oil mostly. It can be made from any type of vegetable oil, used or not, but not from petroleum based oils, like motor oil. It has to go through a cleaning process through adding ingredients such as catalyst and methanol. You cannot take straight used vegetable oil and run it through your motor; it will clog the engine and create huge problems. Using biodiesel has been known to make engines run smoother and cleaner. It has higher lubricity content then diesel does...
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