Ethics in International Business Chapter Outline OPENING CASE: Wal-Mart’s Chinese Suppliers INTRODUCTION ETHICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Employment Practices Management Focus: Making Apple’s iPod Human Rights Environmental Pollution Management Focus: Unocal in Myanmar Corruption Moral Obligations Management Focus: News Corporation in China ETHICAL DILEMMAS THE ROOTS OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR Personal Ethics
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CHAPTER ONE LIMITS, ALTERNATIVES, AND CHOICES CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter begins with a discussion of the meaning and importance of economics. In this first chapter, however, we will not plunge into problems and issues; instead we consider some important preliminaries. We first look at the economic perspective—how economists think about problems. Next, we examine the specific methods economists use to examine economic behavior and the economy, including distinguishing between macroeconomics
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Detrimental Effects of Reward Reality or Myth? Robert Eisenberger Judy Cameron University of Delaware University of Alberta Based on seemingly overwhelming empirical evidence of the decremental effects of reward on intrinsic task interest and creativity, the use of reward to alter human behavior has been challenged in literature reviews, textbooks, and the popular media. An analysis of a quarter century of research on intrinsic task interest and creativity revealed, however, that (a) detrimental
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Political Obligation First published Tue Apr 17, 2007; substantive revision Fri Apr 30, 2010 To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one's country or state. On that point there is almost complete agreement among political philosophers. But how does one acquire such an obligation, and how many people have really done what is necessary to acquire it? Or is political obligation more a matter of being than of doing — that is, of simply being a member of the country
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The new economy has brought greater transparency and greater flexibility but also greater complexity and therefore new and greater risks. It has become very crucial to look at how the new economy had brought greater complexity to the business environment changing the ethical dimension and raising new ethical issues. It goes on to outline the varied dimension of the new economy like—Globalization, technology, assets, framework, recruiting and retaining the talent. These factors have brought
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mTELECOURSE STUDY GUIDE FOR The Examined Life FOURTH EDITION author J. P. White Chair, Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College contributing author Manuel Velasquez Professor of Philosophy Santa Clara University This Telecourse Study Guide for The Examined Life is part of a collegelevel introduction to philosophy telecourse developed in conjunction with the video series The Examined Life, and the text Philosophy: A Text with Readings, tenth edition, by Manuel Velasquez
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La cuestión criminal 1 Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni Suplemento especial de PáginaI 2 1 1. La academia, los medios y los muertos En cualquier lugar de la superficie de este planeta se habla de la cuestión criminal. Es casi lo único de que se habla –en competencia con el fútbol, que es arte complejo–, mientras pocos parecen darse cuenta de que molestamos demasiado al planeta y le podemos provocar un estornudo que nos proyecte violentamente a quién sabe dónde (por no usar alguna expresión poco académica)
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Adam Smith – profeten for den selvregulerende kapitalismen 1) Hvordan mente Adam Smith at ”den usynlige hånd” ville regulere samfunnet og økonomien? Ifølge Smith er vareproduksjon fremstilt med henblikk å byttes på et marked. Visse forutsetninger må ligge til grunn; horisontal arbeidsdeling og privat eiendomsrett. Produsentens arbeid er privatsak, bestemmer selv hva og hvor mye de skal produsere. Produksjonen på samfunnsplan er planløs, uten innblanding fra myndigheten på forhånd hvor mye
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Glossary of Sociological Terms |11-Plus Exam |Examination introduced with the 1944 Education Act, sat by all pupils in the state sector| | |at the age of 11. If they passed they went to the selective Grammar School, or if they | | |failed to the Secondary Modern School. This exam still exists in some counties such as | |
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Exam 1 ECN 201 Microeconomics Chapter 1 5) What does scarcity have to do with the fact that people must make choices? Answer: Scarcity implies that people cannot have everything they want. This implies that ways must be found to determine which of the many goods that people want will actually be produced. Further, since any person cannot have everything he or she wants, the person must decide which specific things to acquire. That is, the person must make choices. Diff: 2 Topic: 1.1 The
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