Essays and Research Papers on Business Ethics

A paper which looks at overseas recruitment in the NHS and the ethical and professional issues which it raises. Bibliography lists 6 sources

A 3 page paper analyzing the mission statement of this popular coffee vendor. Starbucks' mission statement is meaningful, valuable and to-the-point. It avoids grandiosity, and it is not restrictive aside from keeping the company on the path it has set for itself. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper is a discussion of social responsibility, including the elements found in most definitions and the argument for companies to be socially responsible. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 9-page paper brings up an ethical issue as it pertains to management accounting, and discusses solutions that the controller needs to consider to remain on the right side of ethics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 9 page paper analyses the differences approaches to environmental strategy that may be adopted by companies. The paper looks at different models, from total environmental commitment to the view of environmentalism as an unimportant aspect of strategy. The way in which the models may be applied is illustrated with real examples. The bibliography cites ...

10 pages in length. The writer discusses the problems each company may face when reintroducing their respective products – Vioxx, Celebrex – to the market if FDA approval is received. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 3 page paper considers an ethnical dilemma faced by an insurance company. The paper outlines the case where payment of a claim has increased premiums, this increase in costs may for the company paying the premiums into administration. The paper looks at how the facts were gathered and a resolution reached. The bibliography ...

3 pages in length. Can the broken relationship between business ethics and public perception ever be mended? Will there ever come a time when business ethics are not governed by whistle blowers? While there can be no doubt how stakes are high when whistle blowing is involved, one might conclude that without ...

An 8 page discussion of the types of ethical dilemmas that confront employees in the workplace. Ethical discretions, such as the issue of e-mail privacy, have the potential to be tremendously deleterious to employee and workplace. This paper provides an example of a fictional systems administrator and corporation whose high ethics serve to ...

This 9 page paper considers the subject of corporate strategy and examines the potential conflict of expectations by stakeholders and how this will impact upon organisational strategy. Examples are used to illustrate the points raised. The bibliography cites 11 sources.

This 5 page paper examines a workplace scenario in which we are called upon to solve an ethical dilemma with regard to a co-worker. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 10 page paper considers the topic of how strategy is formed and the way in which competing stakeholder needs may impact on that decision. Business has the goal of satisfying shareholders. However shareholders are not the only stakeholders. If a company does not satisfy the needs of other stakeholders they may loos business or ...

This 6-page paper examines the ethics behind Genetech and Novartis' blocking of partner Tanox's experiments on TNX-901, a drug tested for prevention of peanut allergies. The paper explains why the fight against testing and release of this drug was not a moral one.

This 7-page paper covers the ethical behavior (or lack thereof) of Sprint and auditor Ernst and Young in terms of early 2000 exercises of options. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5-page paper is an overview of the discussion of ethics in accounting. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3-page paper discusses a New York Times article about Wal-Mart, entitled "Social issues tug Wal-Mart in differing directions," which talks about Wal-Marts attempts to be socially responsible in the 21st century. Bibliography lists 1 source.

4 pages in length. A company and its staff do not stand independent of each other; rather, the need for mutual visions and values is critical to the synergistic coupling required for success. Organizations might well rely quite heavily upon employees who harbor the same sets of values and visions it reflects, however, ...

This 15-page paper presents a fictitious financial institution in the UK that is suffering from operational problems, customer service lapses and general employee morale problems. The paper presents solutions that the compliance officer must think of. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page paper weighing whether business is good or bad for people and for the world. Socialists and intellectuals condemn business as being everything from merely distasteful to downright evil; others call for close corporate regulation to keep business in line. There is no question that business has been less than attractive ...

A 7 page critique of the Professional Engineers of Ontario Code of Ethics. This paper concentrates on the seemingly perplexing, concerning, and even contradictory provision that one engineer not review another's work without their full knowledge. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 10 page paper examines the theory and the practice of the well known oil company Shell in terms of the attitude and practice they display towards broad social issues, The paper focuses on the environmental issues, consider where they have gone wrong in the past and looks at the way they are performing today. ...

A 7 page paper discussing the ethics of religious discrimination that a company wants to commit but has not yet done. Its receptionist has converted to Islam and has adopted the full attire of an orthodox Muslim woman, projecting an extreme image for visitors to the company's headquarters. The company wants to place ...

This 4 page paper examines sweatshops and other forms of labor that entail poor working conditions. Should the American consumer do something about it? The paper argues in the affirmative but looks at the other side as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5-page paper provides an analysis of foundation company Warnaco and the problems of its $145 million overstatement of inventory on its balance sheets during the late 1990s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 8 page paper discusses the high incidence of work-related injuries and deaths in Australia, and what might be done to stop this epidemic. Bibliography lists 6 sources.