The main purpose of this article is to discuss the Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Responsible Business which has described moral standards for suitable behavior in the workplace. Breaks in company honesty, whether among a small amount or a lot of individuals, compromise the beliefs of workers and for this reason the ability of an organization to provide people’s needs. The main idea of the article is to determine a universal code of ethics in the CRT and talk about the standards for behavior in the workplace. The most important information in this article is the principles themselves and the similarities and/or differences to Jerry White’s Biblical guidelines. The first principle of CRT is to respect stakeholder beyond shareholders
The law on confidentiality and restrictive covenants are in place to ensure that employer’s business interests are protected. Employers may rely on mechanisms such as the confidentiality clauses and restrictive covenants to protect their businesses from damaging competition, disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information. The objective of these provisions is to avoid employees from abusing they employer’s business interests when the employment has come to end. The degree of protection provided to employers differs if the employee has ended the contract of employment. The implied duty of fidelity protects business interests and imposes a obligation employee must not disclose any information or trade secrets of their employers business.
Ethical Concerns Valdez (2014) advises, “Loyalty programs that reward decision makers may run into ethical issues when the decision maker is separate from the payer.” (para. 4) Frequent shopper programs must avoid kickbacks of any sort. If a customer is being rewarded twice, from a business and personal aspect, this can be considered a kickback. It is important to list the personal shopper depending if they are shopping for their business or employer versus personal use. Information Security
Unless the customer, whom Joe criticized, by using a company computer, came back and filed a complaint against John or the company, I strongly believe that Joe can be dealt with internally before our company takes any further action. Through the contract, the company has the right to monitor its employees’ usage of company computers and systems. Therefore, Joe can technically be disciplined for threatens to sue the company for invasion of privacy. I would review our company policies once again to explain the rights, privileges, and commitment of individuals involved as a means of governing working relationship. If Joe fails to improve, the best decision would be the termination of his employment under a mutual understanding to avoid going to
Some policies should include the inability to process family/friends’ transactions and disabling cell phone and personal email use during work hours (except for emergencies). I would also enable supervisory programs that can track employee work history and set web portal controls through organizational databases. Video surveillance would be an important addition to the physical security plan in order to conduct investigations in the event of an actual incident. Hard drives and USB sticks should be banned unless they are considered company property and used appropriately. Since email monitoring tends to be controversial, it might be beneficial to look into software programs that can trace anything communicated through company technology that would be considered a threat instead of monitoring every
I believe that this concern should be left to the company owners as individuals. Personally, I don’t agree with the fact that the way America gets other countries to bend over backwards is by threatening to cut off financial business ties. I feel that America is trying to gain control of the world by doing so. However, I do agree that any sort of discrimination is unethical and should not be tolerated. That is something that each countries governments should have control over, not a foreign country that threatens to cut off business associations.
Although clients share certain characteristics with a group attention should be paid to the individual’s experience of their difference not to carry preconceived ideas about them. For example not to assume all Indian client lives in a large expended family or all immigrants don’t work. From a client view point resistance may exist initially towards a counsellor who does not share their culture such as race, religion or gender. A Japanese businessman may, for instance, view a female counsellor as sub servant. A client past relationships may impact on the age or gender of their preferred counsellor as it may remind them of someone in a positive or negative manner.
I recommend the company should respond to the former employee’s charge of constructive discharge by first apologizing. This former employee has had a negative impact on their life do to our company, and an apology would not hurt the situation. The government has various laws and statues pertaining to constructive discharge, management needs to avoid anything that could be misconstrued as discrimination in the work place. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) refers to processes and techniques of resolving disputes that fall outside of the judicial process (Alernative Dispute Resolution Law & Legal Definintion, 2011). Legally, this could save the company bad publicity, a great amount of stress, and money that isn’t necessary to spend.
They needed the support of the manufacturing company to have the town survive. Our Government needs to be more involved with helping the American businesses by using trade agreements and import quotas similar to the ones that Ronald Regan imposed. Regan imposed temporary quotas on some Japanese goods, trying to give American manufactures the time to compete with the reliability and efficiency of the cars arriving from Japan. However, the plan did not work as Regan had hoped it would. The Japanese opened factories in the United States.
It also affect the creativity and ideas of marketing because everyone will discourage by these bribes and they will know that new business which has less financial resources could not exit for long time and thus they avoid the concept of the new business with new ideas and finally it overall effect the market competition. Q2: In your view In my view the Lockheed’s payment to various Japanese parties were bribes not extortion because they made these payments with their full consent to the various Japanese in order to sell their aircraft and compete illegally to their competitors The payments were so called bribes, were paid to the various Japanese parties to support Lockheed and make possible the sale of their aircraft in various countries. QNO#3 In my judgment, Mr.A.Carl Kotchian did not act rightly from the moral point of view because he adopted a wrong route for getting success. This illegal circulation of money among the government officials badly affects the society’s welfare and also it affects the competitor’s ability and courage that run their businesses through legal approaches. Mr. Kotchian was the president of Lockheed and thus he was morally responsible for his action because he got the support of political parties through bribes and brews their market illegally.