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What cultural elements within Enron supported unethical behavior?

M7A1 Case Analysis: Enron’s Ethics Policies

Creating and evaluating ethics programs is a crucial component of a strong ethical corporate culture. Without a focus on the creation of an ethics program that allows a healthy ethical culture to develop, the ability of individuals to behave ethically is often severely damaged. Understanding a strong ethics program that supports ethical behavior requires that we first evaluate companies that have failed spectacularly. Perhaps one of the most well known corporate failures related to unethical behavior is Enron.

Enron is interesting for several reasons. First, the organization had a very well-written ethics policy that espoused ethics as an important and valued part of their corporate culture. However, the unethical behavior that was rampant within the company clearly illustrates the need to embed into the culture an ethics program based on the espoused ethics policies. Second, the unethical behavior became embedded in all levels within the organization.

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Using your text, the readings from this module, and at least three additional resources, evaluate Enron’s corporate ethics policies, ethics programs (if any existed), and corporate culture.

Consider the following questions in your case analysis:

  • What cultural elements within Enron supported unethical behavior?
  • Imagine that the company survived the scandal. What changes would have to be made to the ethics program to shift the corporate culture to one that valued ethical behavior?
  • Based on what you have learned from this case, how would you evaluate a company’s ethics program? Make sure that you use what you have learned from ethics theories and the material throughout the course to support your argument. Be specific in the conclusion and recommendations section of your paper.

Develop your case analysis using the five following sections:

Section 1: Introduction and situational analysis: Describe the ethical dilemma, giving appropriate background information. The term “dilemma” implies that there are pros and cons to various options, even if some are clearly more socially acceptable than others. This is also where you do your situational analysis – identifying factors related to the individual(s) involved (consider the readings from this module), company and managerial practices and policies, external factors such as economic pressure, and any other aspects of the situation that you believe helped create the dilemma.

Section 2: Stakeholder analysis: Identify the key stakeholders and how they are potentially impacted by the various options inherent in the dilemma.

Section 3: Analysis based on ethical theories: Analyze the ethical dilemma from the perspective of cultural relativism (how it relates to cultural norms – what society would view as acceptable, as well as what is legal), teleology (looking at consequences and acting for the greater good), deontology (duties and principles), and virtue.

Note that stakeholder analysis is particularly pertinent to the consequentialist approach, and that one of the challenges is estimating positive and negative impacts on relevant stakeholders. Do the best you can, looking at both good and bad consequences for each stakeholder group. Make sure you summarize the overall situation and come to a conclusion about the greater good.

Section 4: Conclusion and recommendations. Up to now, you have been analyzing and comparing options. Here is where you pull together the different threads of your analysis and determine whether or not the company did the right thing. Also, make recommendations about what the company should have done. Make sure your justifications clearly flow from your analysis. Make managerial and policy recommendations that would help avoid similar ethical dilemmas in the future and provide guidance to help those facing a similar dilemma.

Section 5: References. List at least three sources (in addition to the Dowie’s article and your text) where you located additional information about the company and the associated ethical dilemma(s).

General guidance: Include a title page, and label the five sections. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. All citations should be in APA 6th Edition format. Double space your paper, use Times New Roman, 12-point font, with one inch margins. For more information, link to APA Tip Sheet, 6th ed.[PDF file size 177 KB]

Would you leave the product on the shelves because you feel your duty as a corporate manager is to maximize shareholder profits?

Ethics, Law, and the Judicial System@Prof Xavier

400-600 words, no header/running head necessary

 

Corporations have a lot of influence over the economy, the community, and people. The traditional view of corporate responsibility is that a corporation has no additional social responsibility beyond making a profit for its shareholders. In more recent years, arguments have arisen with the belief that corporations have a high degree of social responsibility to people affected by the corporation’s decisions.

You are returning for a second interview for a management position at a pharmaceutical corporation. The hiring committee wants to hear your views on a corporation’s social responsibility. The hiring committee has even provided to you a case example to review and discuss during your interview. To prepare for the interview, you decide to write out your thoughts that you plan on discussing with the hiring team.

In your paper, you decide to include the following topics:

  • Definition of what corporate social responsibility means to you
  • Arguments supporting social responsibility
  • Description of a real-life example of a specific corporation acting in a socially responsible manner
  • Your opinion and supportive reasoning on the case example and questions provided below

Case Example: Phishy Pharmaceuticals is a corporation that recently kicked off the sale of its new weight-loss pill, Lose It Fast. After three months of sales, the management team has received some troubling reports of some unanticipated side effects caused by the pill. The management team asks the accounting department to run some numbers to determine how much it would cost to recall Lose It Fast, to suspend manufacturing, and to conduct more tests to determine the pill’s safety and other possible side effects.

After running some numbers, the accounting department states that it would be more cost-effective to leave the product on the market shelves and propose settlement proceedings with anyone who is injured and initiates a lawsuit.

The corporate attorney has advised that the product states on the package that the pill is not FDA approved, and off-the-record has stated that everyone who buys a weight-loss product knows there are some risks involved, so it is likely that the majority of injured consumers will not initiate a lawsuit.

If you recall the product, it will result in a delay of dividends paid to shareholders and a loss in revenue, affecting shareholder profit. Consider the following questions regarding this example:

  • What would you do, and why?
  • Would you leave the product on the shelves because you feel your duty as a corporate manager is to maximize shareholder profits?
  • Would you recall the product because you feel the corporation owes a duty to the public, consumers, and the government in terms of social responsibility?

How can an applicant tracking system improve a company’s talent management efforts?

FOR PHYLLIS YOUNG ONLY

 

 

  1. Explain the six steps of conducting a job analysis and discuss how the information is used.
  2. Discuss three methods for collecting job analysis information.
  3. How can an applicant tracking system improve a company’s talent management efforts?
  4. Define strategic management and describe each step of the strategic management process.

Each response must be at least 200 words in length per question.

When and where were the systems introduced to the United States?

Medico legal Death Investigation

  1. Research the history of the coroner system and the medical examiner system.
    • When and where were the systems introduced to the United States?
    • What is a brief history of each?
    • Provide a URL for any Web site(s) you used in researching the coroner system and medical examiner system.
  2. Then, compare and contrast the coroner system versus the medical examiner system–consider specialization and expertise, licensing, and employment status.
  3. Choose a jurisdiction (state, county, or city) in the United States. What are the qualifications to become a coroner and chief medical examiner in the jurisdiction of your choosing? Provide a URL for any Web site(s) you used in researching the qualifications.
  4. Which position (corner or medical examiner) seems more interesting to you, and why?

4 paragraphs and no more then 25%: plaigiarism

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How was the land acquired and what did each acquisition cost?

short essay

1 )Homesteading is a major theme in the settling of the American West. Write a factual essay that:

(a) explains the major ideas/philosophies that led to homesteading laws and who originated them

(b) lists how the U.S. was assembled – how was the land acquired and what did each acquisition cost?

(c) lists and briefly discusses three major homesteading laws/bills that disposed of former Indian land and transferred them to settlers or resource developers

(d) explains two myths about climate that made people believe they could farm in the arid West

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How would you design the logical structure of Active Directory for the Rough Country Miles of Alaska, and what domain naming structure would you suggest?

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Deliverable: Word document of 2–4 pages, APA format (excludes APA cover page and abstract; include reference page as applicable)

Rough Country Miles of Alaska (RCM) is a teardrop snowshoe manufacturer (worn by lumberjacks) that has contacted you to install Windows Server 2012 R2 and Active Directory. It owns the RoughCountryMiles.com domain name. It has 300 users, equally dispersed in three locations: Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks.

Anchorage is the headquarters, while the Fairbanks office handles the Northern Alaskan region, and the Juneau office is in charge of the Southern Alaskan region. The security policies, such as password length and account lockout, are more laidback in Juneau than in Fairbanks. The company headquarters establishes financial goals and general operations policy, but it allows some regional operational autonomy.

Within corporate headquarters are the following business units:

  • Operations
  • Manufacturing
  • Executive
  • Logistics

Within the two regional offices are the following business units:

  • Sales
  • Purchasing
  • Management
  • Inventory
  • Finance

The chief information officer (CIO) would like to delegate the ability to manage users and groups to the business unit level, without delegating control over security policies.

The three locations are joined by communications lines that are 80% saturated from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Answer the following questions:

  1. How would you design the logical structure of Active Directory for the Rough Country Miles of Alaska, and what domain naming structure would you suggest?
  2. How many domain controllers, DNS servers, and global catalog servers would you suggest? Where would you place them? What is your reasoning?
  3. For the benefit of the upper management who are nontechnical, please describe how forest functional levels, trees, domains, OUs, and sites function in Active Directory.
  4. What edition of Windows 2012 R2 server would you use for your domain controller? If you needed a high-availability fault-tolerant clustering system for RCM’s Web server, what edition of Windows Server 2012 R2 would you use?
  5. You will be building these servers. How would you select your server components? What would you do if you added a backup peripheral device to your server and the mouse froze?

 

Adhere to APA formatting and reference guidelines when writing your response. Additionally, your response should be free of grammatical errors, use complete sentences, and give specific details to

What recommendations will you provide to the executives regarding the actions Panera Bread needs to take to strengthen its competitive position?

Assignment 3: Resource and Competitive Position Analysis

Using your text book, the AUO library and the Internet, research Panera Bread Company.

You have been hired by Panera Bread Company as a consultant to assess their internal and external environments in relation to their current competitive strategy. You are scheduled to meet executives at Panera Bread this week to discuss your assessment and recommendations. In preparation for your meeting, discuss the following in 2-3 pages:

  • Prepare a SWOT analysis of Panera Bread and discuss what your analysis revealed about the overall attractiveness of the company’s situation.
  • Does the company possess core competencies or distinctive competencies? Support your response with examples.
  • What recommendations will you provide to the executives regarding the actions Panera Bread needs to take to strengthen its competitive position?

By Wednesday, February 17, 2016, submit your assignment to the M1: Assignment 3 Dropbox.

 

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria 
Maximum Points
Provided a comprehensive SWOT analysis and explained the company’s overall attractiveness of their situation.
40
Examined and explained the company’s core competencies and/or distinctive competencies.
30
Demonstrated specific recommendations based upon findings that strengthen their competitive position.
20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
10
Total:

What are the advantages of assigning numerical scores to the categories and subcategories included in a supplier surveys?

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I need you to answe this 2 qustios in short paragraph for each one . (2 answers for each qustion for s syudents)

 

Why must organizations develop suppliers? Is supplier development a long term trend or just a fad? Explain (100 words max)

 

What are the advantages of assigning numerical scores to the categories and subcategories included in a supplier surveys? (100 words max)

 

Do the policies support ethical behavior?

Executive Summary

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Internal Control Executive Summary

This assignment uses the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital,

Locate and research the internal control system policies regarding employee behavior.

Write an executive summary of 100 -150 words describing your findings of the policies.

Select the single biggest internal control problem you found in your review. Answer the following questions in your summary:

  • Do the policies support ethical behavior? Explain.
  • Do the policies promote the organization’s goals? In what way?
  • Include citations.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

 

How does that happen?

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ECO100

  • I would have to say consumption. According to the BEA, there was a 2.4% increase in real GDP from 2014 to 2015. Consumption of goods and services account for approximately 70% of GDP, and because there was an increase in consumption it was able to offset increased imports and decreased exports. There was also a decrease in government spending and nonresidential investments. Residential investments increased, but that alone would not be able to completely offset the other components without increased consumption. First on a Thursday?! How does that happen?

LEG100

  • I believe the business is liable for the expense of the products ordered.  Even though the company did not go through the rules and regulations of the hiring process, they continue to let the friend work in the capacity of an employee. The friends took on the responsibility of an employee such as ordering from vendors and wearing uniforms. They even tell others they work for the business. As the owner of the business, they are liable for the business debts because they gave the employee consent to operate the business whether they personally signed contract or not. They gave the employee consent to run the business in their absence or the business could end up being sued for damages.

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