"Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) " Please respond to the following: From the e-Activity, determine the ethical theory or theories (from Chapter 1 of the textbook) that best support(s) the B-corp concept. Support your response. B Corp firms must have an explicit social or environmental mission and a legally binding fiduciary responsibility to take into account the interests of workers, the community and the environment as well as its shareholders. I think
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine July 29, 2012 Legal 500 As a manager and supervisor of an accounting firm, the following scenarios regarding At-Will employment would be handled accordingly. In the examples given, Jennifer was a recent graduate from college. However, she doesn’t have the applicable work skills necessary to complete the job in many areas. According to the Employment-At-Will Doctrine, employers are able to “dismiss their employees at will for
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Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Equal Pay Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. HR should also encourage these organizational leaders to better understand the legal and safety issues associated with the company. In addition, technology plays a major role in Human resources. There are legal issues associated with email usage as well as internet use and organizational leaders need to be aware of these issues. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires
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Standards and expectations for leaders in many organizations are different for women than men. Why does it seem so difficult for women to advance to high-level leadership positions and have the same opportunities as men? Why is it so uncommon for a woman to be CEO? Are women compensated equally for doing the same job as their male counterparts? If a woman is older than 40 does she have as many opportunities as men the same age? Is there still gender discrimination occurring in the workplace? These
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Chevron, Bright Prospect or Investment Peril? Business Analysis I Bridgette Kahana’oi University of Phoenix Management MGT 521 Christopher Romano June 21, 2012 Abstract Chevron is a fortune 500 corporation, ranked #10 out of 500 companies by CNN Money. Its target group is people who use petrol diesel for vehicles and other uses. Chevron has a wide range of stakeholders from internal shareholders and employees, to external ones like governments, airline companies, shipping companies and
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The situation: This assignment is based on Chapter 10, page 311, Portfolio Builder 24. You work for Kelly Services, which provides staffing solutions to more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Click this link for more information about Kelly Services. Your team has been asked to select a Fortune 500 company like Chrysler, Ford, Intel, or DuPoint. Your first task after you’ve selected the company is to research the company and write an informal analytical report. The audience for the report
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impress Walmart and will prove to Walmart that we are all you need for temporary staffing and all things associated with such. Maintain legal and ethical standards, demonstrate your awareness by writing a tailored message for your business. • Kelly Services provides employment to 560,000 employees annually. • Kelly Services is currently ranked 441 in the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies • Kelly Services has been recognized for its quality processes, management practices, supplier diversity
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Dale Earnhardt Sr. Hi, I’m Dale Earnhardt Senior! Do any of you watch race car driving? Have you ever been to a NASCAR race? NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. I was born in April 1951 and grew up in Car Town, North Carolina with my parents Ralph and Martha Earnhardt along with my brothers and sisters Kaye, Kathy, Randy, and Danny. My daddy worked in a cotton mill in Kannapolis and did some race car driving on the side. My daddy didn’t graduate from high school with
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Global Fortune 500 Company Home Depot | Economics for SocietyAyesha MuhammadSeptember 1, 2014 | Global Fortune 500 Company Home Depot | Economics for SocietyAyesha MuhammadSeptember 1, 2014 | Global Fortune 500 Company Home Depot Home Depot is one of the largest home improvement retailer in the world. With stores in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus, along with investment banker Ken Langone and merchandising
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Karen Olsson’s Up Against Wal-Mart: Advocacy for the People Karen Olsson the author of an essay called Up Against Wal-Mart where Olsson posits the employees of Wal-Mart are quite literally “up against Wal-Mart”. Olsson goes on further to provide authoritative evidence to Wal-Mart's questionable practices in regards to the treatment of its employees. More specifically Olsson goes on to point out the success that Wal-Mart has achieved; the questionable practices involved in preventing employees from
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