...| Money, Attitude, and Unethical Behavior | Business Research Methods | | | December 11, 2013 | This research paper focuses on the relationship between money, attitude, and unethical behavior. Comparing the data found in regards to gender and major according to a study by Dr. Chen and Dr. Tang. | Introduction Many believe that the success of a business is determined by they amount of money they generate on an annual basis. Because of this widespread belief, we often see a lack of morals, values, and ethics incorporated into the business. Many businesses feel as if there is no room for ethics in the business world and that the relationships built should focus solely on the generation of revenue. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, we can define ethics as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” Every company has a code of ethics in order to determine the company’s culture and values. It also acts a driving force behind any decisions made by top executives. In market where there are so many profit-based businesses, often times we see the many difficulties in balancing the pursuit of profits while staying true to their code of ethics. The balance of ethical practice and profit maximization causes companies to face difficult decisions and many times businesses choose profit maximization. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer transactions require frequent interaction. In every type of business transaction...
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...In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the major themes was money and social class, and how it affected each of the characters. Jay Gatsby believes in the need for wealth and materialism in order to obtain love from Daisy, but is crushed by a world of unattainable dreams. With the use of money-related diction to illustrate that wealth is pursued for the sole purpose to impress others and to bring happiness, Fitzgerald demonstrates that during the 1920’s, money was most important to people in order to gain social class, but resulted in the complete opposite. Daisy is a good example of how money has influenced her and even changed her throughout the novel. She met Gatsby and fell in love with him despite how he had no money or social class. Once he went off to war, she promised to wait for him, but once she met Tom, she couldn’t resist his wealth, and...
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...What Money Can’t Buy. We need it to pay the bills, eat and sleep in our warm homes. Most importantly we need it to survive. Money plays a very important role in everyone’s life across the world. Money can be the most important thing in the world, but many forget that there are many other things that hold value, more than the dollars in your bank account. Still, very astonishing to me how one piece of paper can control the minds of billions of people. How we let it dictate a majority of our life and think that we need it to make us happy. Even though money can buy you all the lavish goods in the world, but it can never buy you happiness, knowledge, good health, love or time. In my personal experience with money, I’ve had the amount of an average American family. Meaning that I wasn’t filthy rich but I wasn’t poor either. The amount that I have is enough to make me happy because I’m not struggling with anything life food and other necessities. I don’t live comfortably, because my idea of comfortable is not having to work, but I still have to pay bills and maintain. But, looking at others who don’t have much money makes me appreciate my life more even if I am not wealthy. Being average isn’t so bad when you still have gratitude. Money can’t buy you happiness and I actually believe that in some ways money can actually negatively consume your life. What I mean by this is, say for instance someone is desperate for money, they will do anything to get their hands on it. That...
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...A The Decline of the West Hanif Kureishi published “The Decline of the West” in 2010 in Collected Stories. The story deals with the modern western capitalistic society and which affects it has on family life. The materialistics values have marked the West, which affect the family life. The father in the history want the family to look good outwardly, even if the family is in disorder, specially between the father and the oldest son. The father, called Mark, obvious thinks that happiness is given by material amenities, but instead the family bond falling apart. In the story we meet the father Mark, his wife Imogen and their common children Tom and Billy. We meet Mark immediately after he has been fired and arrives to his house. Mark is used to working late and because of the firing he has a complicated relationship to his family. The family has also been used to have their material things, but after Mark has been fired, the family must get used to live the more poor life, which would be a problem since the to boys already talks about they want to live somewhere else, a place which is more bigger just like there classmates. The two boys are used to get what they point out, but still the boys feel they are being neglected by their parent, maybe because Mark show his love to his boys through material values. Mark isn’t the typically family man if you ask his family. Mark just get fired and it’s hard to tell his wife, especially because he has a problem with women who...
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...Halper Draft This paper takes an in-depth look at the relationship between the author, Mitch Albom, and Morrie who is the main subject. Their relationship starts when Mitch is in college while Morrie is his sociology professor. Morrie seems to be a man who wants to leave a legacy behind after he dies since he has been told by the doctor that his life is coming to an end. Mitch considers it a privilege meeting someone who teaches about life and offers solutions to life challenges. As Morrie happens to meet with Mitch, his past student and friend, they plan to start meeting on Tuesdays and Mitch is to go to Morrie’s home. They get into the discussions for fourteen Tuesdays where they discuss life issues such family, death, marriage, love, money among others. Morrie dies and he is buried on a Tuesday. The discussions of each Tuesday are analyzed to reveal the deontology and utilitarianism of the two and their humanistic and social significances. Tuesdays with Morrie The book Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, young man, and life’s greatest lesson was written by Mitch Albom in 1997. It is a non-fiction book talking about Mitch’s experience with an old man who was his college sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. The book is a chronicle that talks about the author’s interaction with the professor as the professor was about to die. The author gives the reason as to why he wrote the book saying that in every person’s life there is a teacher. A person who tells one...
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...playing a game that an athlete loves. Michael Jordan, along with several other professional athletes, think getting paid millions of dollars is perfect. In the 1996 season, after playing 3,106 minutes, Michael Jordan made 170,000 dollars a day which is the equivalent of 160.97 dollars a second (Christian Science Monitor). Another unbelievable statistic is Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley. In a single second, he made 281,000 dollars (Christian Science Monitor). Alex Rodriguez will be paid $29 million this season, making him the highest paid player in baseball (Newsday). Rodriguez’s salary is $4 million more than the entire 25-man roster of the Houston Astros will make this year (Newsday). Athletes do not deserve all that money. President Obama’s salary is 400,000 dollars. President Obama is the leader of the ‘United States of America, and he is paid less than a professional athlete that sits on the bench in any professional sport. Professional athletes are easily the most over paid job in America. Professional athletes are overpaid in several professional sports. Professional sports generate massive revenues, and the athletes who play these sports are being paid tremendously high salaries. New York Yankees baseball star, Alex Rodriguez, signed a contract in 2008 that includes him being paid $275 million over the next ten years (Newsday). Many other baseball, football, and basketball superstars have multi-year contracts worth more than $100 million. Because teams...
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...true passion. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” The above quote is credited to Confucius, the well-known Chinese legend. I believe many of you would have come across the above quote at one time or the other. Many career coaches often cite this quote at will during career counseling to drive home the view that a person’s career decisions should be based on passion and not pay. Like what he said, I believed that if we were passionate enough about doing what we love, the money would come rolling in. Thesis: Choosing a job based on your passion is important because true passion is more valuable than money and no obstacle will stop you from achieving success. Preview/Transition: For example, I believe Main Point/Example #1: Which is better, love or money? Love is the key to happiness. People say having money is what life is about. I don’t believe that. The true happiness is going after what you love. When I was in high school, I always hoped I could get an honored job such as a talented doctor, a famous lawyer or a skillful engineer, so I could make a lot of money and got rich. However, I grew up and became more mature. Now I believe that true passion is more valuable than money. It doesn’t matter what kind of job I will have soon and how much my income is, as long as it should be something I enjoy, then it will lead me a happier and fulfilling life. I believe you should strive to do what you love for a living. Most people hate waking...
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...desire for money and social status is a destructive force. The story is about a young boy named Paul who tries to win his mothers love by gambling for money. Paul has a supernatural power which he can commute with his rocking horse to find out the winning races. However, in the end Paul tries too hard to win his mothers love and dies. The moral theme is revealed through Paul, who is the protagonist, and his relationships with the characters. The relationships which result in conflict is between Paul's mother and father, between mother and Paul, Oscar and Paul and Paul and himself. The standard of living in their society is very important to Paul's family but it becomes a destructive force. The symbolism unrolls the theme by Paul's wooden rocking horse, his wild eyes and the whispering within the house. Thus, the theme is revealed by the use of relationships, and symbolism which in the end leads Paul to his awful death. D.H. Lawrence accomplishes the theme by using dramatic relationships with the characters. Paul's mother, Hester is determined to fit in with society but she does not notice that her desires are ruining her family. A conversation with Hester and Paul displays how she feels about Paul. Hester believes that being lucky is the key to becoming rich, but her belief has a large impact on Paul. Paul is determined to receive his mothers attention when he says "I'm a lucky person," and then she goes on to say "excellent," but in a sarcastic manner, which makes him more compelled...
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...for me. I've spent a lot of time to search for the happiness of my life. And I've found it. I usually ask what to do to achieve happiness. Is the money the way to achieve happiness ? I believe that money is the important thing, but not the way to achieve it. I studied the biographical of historical characters such as Napoleon, Lincohn, ... Bill Gates, ... and find out that money is not the most important aspects of their lives. Money can help us do a lot of things, but it is not the way to achieve happiness... I also contact a lot of people to see if they are happy with their life. Do they 'work to live' or 'live to work' ? Which one is better for ourselves. Steve Jobs says 'You got to find what you love'. I realize that finding the meaning of my life, or the happiness for ourselves is to find what we love. No matter what we try, if we can not find out what we love, we will not achieve happiness. Some people love working, some people love money, some people love power, ... However, I know that finding what we love is not enough to achieve happiness. Many of us like money, but because of that, we're worried all the time about it, we can not sleep well in the night, and all the day we just keep thinking about it. Do we feel happy ? I also learn about different religions to find out how happy the people are. An important conclusion is that some people feel happier, but some other feel less happy. Religions offer the people a feeling of contacting with Gods and with...
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...thank my family members, for their selfless support，thoughtfulness and encouragement． Abstract Jane Austen was one of the distinguished realistic novelists in the nineteenth- century-English literature．Pride and Prejudice is a world wide popular novel published in 1813．Austen set the story in the first decade of the nineteenth century．At that time，marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition. The author of the present thesis will analyze the five marriage patterns from the perspective of sociohistorical literary criticism to explore the important role that money and love plays in marriage. It can be seen clearly that Austen fully expresses her original views on marriage：property, social status and love are three indispensable elements in a marriage．It is wrong to marry for money，but it is unwise to marry without money. Austen’s views on marriage emphasize love and economic...
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...intent to reestablish or build relationships in the first place. In contrast, the relationships in “The Lottery” are disregarded but reestablished shortly after and reestablished with intent to do so. In Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner”, Hester is a member of an upper class society and in maintaining her perceived superior position, she fosters and insatiable desire for money. However, the upper class custom of keeping up a lavish lifestyle has become meaningless for Hester for when she comes upon more money, it fails to satisfy her and only sharpens her cravings. The relationships she has with her children suffer as a result. Hester is so consumed with greed that she is unable to feel love in her heart for anyone and thus neglects her children and finds her marriage disappointing. Her children know she does not love them and her coldness towards them dissolves her relationship with them over time and this relationship is not reestablished. The same can be said about her relationship with her husband. She married him “for love” but “the love turned to dust.” Hester does not value love,...
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...NWhat part does money play in the presentation of the character of Silas in the novel and what happens to him? Discuss the importance of money in Eliot’s novel, being sure to concentrate in detail on a number of important passages in order to build your argument. Money is a very important theme throughout this novel. The conclusion explains money doesn't necessarily make people happy. The author, George Eliot teaches this point through its characters: The Cass family have money but they never seem satisfied. Dolly Winthrop is poor, but happy in a fatalistic way and Silas Marner in his days at lantern yard saw faith as more important than money. The novel appears to argue that some things such as happiness, trust and faith are more valuable than money and wealth. The story of Silas Marner starts with Silas being a good, honest man. He is a very religious man, who in Lantern Yard was involved in a religious community. His little savings amounted to "three pounds five of my own" and "a large proportion of his weekly earnings had gone to piety and charity." This suggests that Silas was more concerned with faith in his God, than in money. Silas was accused of stealing money, which belonged to the church. Silas was astonished but unafraid, "God will clear me," and invited the church to search his home. His friend William Dane found the empty moneybag in Silas's room but still he trusted in God "God will clear me." Silas suddenly realises that William Dane has betrayed him but he still...
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...with "Prince Charming." Sibyl is in love. Mrs. Vane's attitude is more realistic and down-to-earth. She wants her daughter to think of her career. Sibyl has all the idealistic enthusiasm of an innocent seven-teen-year-old. Wilde states the metaphor describing that "joy of a caged bird was in her voice." Sibyl does not want to hear about Mr. Isaacs or money. What is money compared to love? James hates the "young dandy" who is courting his sister. He warns his sister that the man wants to enslave her and repeatedly threatens to kill the "gentleman" if he does Sibyl any wrong. Why was it added? The absence of Dorian and Lord Henry from this chapter makes it seem like filler. It is a chance for the reader to catch a breath after the whirlwind engagement announcement that ended the previous chapter. However, this short chapter serves an important function in the novel; it introduces and describes characters and sets up events that will be developed later in the story. After controversy of the first publication, this innocent girl is introduced to cool the situation. It can also be argued that chapter 5 was added in order to humanise Sibyl – before she is a ‘creature’ and this makes her seem more ‘real’. The characters Sibyl is described as "the girl" -> infantile like Dorian -> naivety, innocence -> "pouted" childish again -> her dismissal of the importance of money is presented as idealistic and childish "love is more than money" -> "the joy of a caged bird was...
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...save him from the results of his actions. In this way he has secretly married Molly Farren and fathered a child, been blackmailed to misuse money due to his father - and yet still somehow hopes to wriggle out of everything and marry Nancy Lammeter. Godfrey is insensitive, weak and deceitful: We are told he has an easy disposition and prefers good. Eliot conveys her opinions about Victorian society in her novel. With Godfrey, she is able to explore the issue of social class. Eliot disagreed with the commonly held belief of society at the time that the upper class were morally superior to the lower class. Through Godfrey is morally questionable character she is able to promote instead the integrity and values of the working class. For a while fortune favours him: Molly dies, Silas takes Eppie and Nancy agrees to marry him. With all his privileges and his loving wife, in the end Godfrey is unhappy because, ironically, he has to appear childless, his only child apparently having died. He had a child whom he disowned - he did not deserve to be a father. Silas adopted the child and was truly a father to her. Godfrey often seems to expect that money will solve his problems; he gives Molly money which she spends on opium; he gives Silas money when he adopts Eppie; he expects Silas and Eppie to agree to his adoption plans because of money, and finally, he pays for the wedding reception at the Rainbow. In many ways Eliot presents Godfrey...
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... Theme and Narrative Elements of “The Gift of the Magi” O Henry’s short story written in 1906 “The Gift of the Magi” identifies the theme elements as poverty and love. The lack of money and living in a poor neighborhood affected both Della and Jim. They expressed their unconditional love for each other by sacrificing their most prized possessions in order to buy a Christmas gift. Through this act of love both Della and Jim saw how much they really loved each other by wanting to make their partner happy. This short story identifies that love has no boundaries over having money through self sacrifice when it comes to giving all you have for the one you love. The couple sacrificed items that brought them joy such as Della’s hair and Jim’s watch which was important to the both of them but wasn’t worth much financially (Clugston, 2010). The plot’s analysis centers around the initial situation which states that Della only has $1.87 to purchase her husband Jim a gift on Christmas Eve. Both Della and Jim are poor and love her husband more than in the whole world. Della’s long hair and Jim’s gold watch were the only things they had and gave them up for one another. In the conflict, Della sells her hair to get the money in order to purchase her husband Jim a gift. This solves the problem of not having enough money and later she finds the perfect present for her husband. This opposes a new problem Della is not sure if Jim will be upset over the loss of her hair in order to purchase...
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