Key Players

Gloria has now been in business for 2 years. Her business is called International Widgets, and she employs more than 300 people in the business headquarters. In the early stages of the business, she created a Code of Ethics to govern employees’ behavior. Recently, one of her salespeople, John Anderson, seems to be underperforming. Historically, he has been a stellar employee and salesperson, bringing in new clients every month. However, over the last 6 months, not only has he not brought in any new business, but 30% of his accounts have gone to a competitor. Even with this downturn, John was on the road 5 days a week and continued to submit expense reports. Is this ethical?

Janice is the director of human resources at International Widgets. Recently, Janice met with Gloria to let her know of a rumor in the company that John was actually steering some of his accounts to a competitor because the competitor gave him a kickback.

John has been employed by International Widgets for 14 months. He likes his job but was recently approached by a competitor with an offer he could not refuse. The competitor wanted to expand his domestic market and asked John to work with him for a few months. He asked that John provide him with the names and phone numbers of the customers he services. He said he didn’t want John to get into trouble with International Widgets so he would contact the customers and not John. However, he told John that for every customer who left International Widgets, John would receive a “1% payment from the customer’s first order.” John didn’t think he was doing anything wrong. He has two children in college and needs the extra money, plus he could continue to try to work with the customer to stay with International Widgets.

International Widgets Code of Ethics

Confidentiality

International Widgets is committed to maintaining the highest degree of integrity in all our dealings with potential, current, and past clients, both in terms of normal commercial confidentiality and the protection of all personal information received in the course of providing the business services concerned. We extend the same standards to all our customers, suppliers, and associates.

Ethics

We conduct business honestly and honorably and expect our clients and suppliers to do the same. We train our employees to be ethical and expect them to always act in the best interests of International Widgets.

Duty of Care

Our actions and advice will always conform to relevant law and we believe that all businesses, including International Widgets, should avoid causing any adverse effect on the human rights of people in the organizations we deal with, the local and wider environments, and the well-being of society at large.

Conflict of Interest

Employees of International Widgets must act exclusively for the benefit of International Widgets. Employees should avoid providing services to a direct competitor of International Widgets, or engage in any type of business relationship that is not in the best interests of International Widgets.

Our contract will usually be in the form of a detailed proposal, including aims, activities, costs, timescales, and deliverables. The quality of our service and the value of our support provide the only true basis for continuity. We always try to meet our clients’ contractual requirements, particularly for situations where an external funding provider requires more official parameters and controls.

Intellectual Property and Moral Rights

We retain the moral rights in, and ownership of, all intellectual property that we create unless agreed otherwise in advance with our clients. In return, we respect the moral and intellectual copyright vested in our clients’ intellectual property. Employees are not to use the intellectual property of International Widgets for any means other than the terms and conditions of their employment and to advance the interests of International Widgets.

Quality Assurance

We maintain the quality of what we do through constant ongoing review with our clients, of all aims, activities, outcomes, and the cost-effectiveness of every activity. We encourage regular review meetings and provide regular progress reports. This consultancy has been accredited under a number of quality assurance schemes. Further details are available on request.

Professional Conduct

We conduct all of our activities professionally and with integrity. We take great care to be completely objective in our judgment and any recommendations that we give, so that issues are never influenced by anything other than the best and proper interests of our clients.

Equality and Discrimination

We always strive to be fair and objective in our advice and actions and we are never influenced in our decisions, actions, or recommendations by issues of gender, race, creed, color, age, or personal disability.

Assignment

You are the assistant director of human resources. Janice Marshall has asked you to review the Code of Ethics to determine if John has violated its provisions. You are to prepare a paper that addresses the following.

Assignment requirements:

the air temperature drops from 94 dagrees to 72 dagrees in 15 minutes.what is the change in temperature?

Proposal Argument

Learning Outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Your task for this assignment is to compose a 2100-2400 word original academic essay in which

you write about a current social, ethical, or environmental issue that concerns or interests you—

discuss what the roots of the problem are and how education or your field of study can also help

rectify the issue and provide solutions for it. If you like, you can use part of the information you

worked on in Essay 3, re-work it, and incorporate it into your Essay 4, if your topic is similar in

nature. However, you can NOT just copy and paste pages or paragraphs from your Essay 3—a

substantial revision between Essay 3 and Essay 4 has to take place. In other words, although you

may work on a similar topic as you did in Essay 3, the purpose and the nature of the assignment

are different: Essay 3 focused on critique and analysis, while Essay 4 focuses on proposed

solutions. You cannot write about broad topics such as global warming, or alternative fuel

solutions, unless you have something insightful and realistic of your own to propose. Choose a

topic that is more specific. In the beginning of the essay, describe what the problem is and

establish the scope of the problem and the sources of the problem; you will then propose

solutions to the problem. You can choose any social, ethical, or environmental topic that interests

you. In this essay, you are also required to use at least three outside academic sources, plus two

readings from the class reading list, and at least one film or podcast lecture. In other words, you

need to have at least six (6) sources. Finally, you should include a graphic image, such as a

spreadsheet chart that illustrates data, in this assignment

Consumerism and Planned Obsolescence

Consuerism and Planned Obsolescenc

DUE1/30/17

The purpose of this discussion is to help you understand the growing concerns surrounding consumerism and how this concept is applied to varied contexts. Prepare and post a response to the following prompts:

·  Describe consumerism. Describe a specific context and explain what consumerism means in the setting.

·  What is planned obsolescence? What role does planned obsolescence play in consumerism? Describe one product or service and explain how planned obsolescence is incorporated into its design.What are your personal beliefs and biases about consumption?

·  Having separated your personal beliefs and biases, use ethical theories and concepts to present how you feel about consumerism and planned obsolescence as societal issues.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required resources and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references in APA style

I have attached chapter 9 from the textbook if needed. I have attached a file with ethical theories.

DUE1/30/17

The purpose of this discussion is to help you understand the role of corporations in the modern world while evaluating ethical aspects of corporate market domination. Prepare and post a response to the following prompts:

·  Describe the difference between a corporation and a conglomerate.

·  Consider the ethics of media conglomerates in the United States. What are the ethical advantages and disadvantages of allowing large conglomerates to control the mass media? What are alternative ways the media might be organized that would be more ethical or moral? Explain your reasoning using both concepts from the course and academic resources.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required resources and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references in APA style 

I have attached chapter 9 from the textbook if needed. I have attached a file with ethical theories.

• From the e-Activity, infer the justification behind Google’s dividend policy.  Next, infer the justification behind Verizon’s dividend policy. Provide a rationale for your response.
• Identify one (1) type of investor that might be satisfied collecting a dividend, as opposed to looking for a large capital gain due to stock price appreciation. Provide a rationale for your response.