QBT Task 4 – Final Version 2 Robb Farrell Western Governors University Student ID# 000242903 THE REAL BOTTOM-LINE OF TODAY’S BUSINESS Research reveals that companies that focus on adhering to ethical standards and investing in socially responsible practices to the benefit of all stakeholders have a significant business advantage it today’s market place. Socially and ethically conscious originations have compelling business results in related to employee loyalty, company profits and consumer affinity. There was a time in our capitalist society that an organization’s number one priority and predominant focus was profits and shareholder interest. Indeed things have and are changing. In today’s market climate, companies have had to increase their consciousness as to what really matters.
Why are ethical behaviour and government regulations important to marketing? Ethical behaviour is used within many businesses to ensure the business provides accurate information to customers as well as other businesses to engage in fair competition. It is important for a business to have ethical behaviour in relation to the marketing side of the business so that goods produced, promoted then sold do not provide misleading information. If identified by consumers, it can have a major impact on all functions of the business as it has the potential to ruin the business’s reputation placing the business at a declining stage of the business’s life cycle. In a similar manner government regulations are also important and must be overviewed by all functions of a
• Customer Service – Businesses should aim to have good customer services because it is important to keep customers happy. How multimedia can help businesses to meet these objectives Navigation of a website – websites often use multimedia features on their website to make navigation easier and to make it look good. For example a continuous reel of moving images may be placed on the homepage of a news website to show each of the featured headline stories. This makes it easier for the users to see important information, special offers or links to featured articles/products without having to search through the website to find it. This sort of multimedia can act as a focal point on the homepage of a website meaning that users are instantly drawn to it as soon as they open the page.
Kantian ethics is the best approach to the issues surrounding business ethics There are a number of issues which are created by business activity. Firstly, how are businesses relationships with their consumers? Secondly, how businesses relate to the environment, for example with pollution, or sustainability, or treatment of waste. Another is whether businesses follow moral principles like honesty in their dealings. Kant says that people in business should act out of duty alone, not self-interest or desire to earn huge amounts of money.
These topics and many others are on the web, and talk about Food and Drug Administration news and have had an impact on society and market share, especially if there is no corrective plan. The Federal Trade Commission and other governmental agencies have been both praised and criticized for their regulation of marketing activities, all and all I think it’s all good, and that it is up to the consumer to read and be educated, to be part of their community involvement and have a social responsibility too, just like businesses
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 Vioxx was believed to increased cardio vascular problems. Addition to that, Senator Charles Grassley quoted on the case study that ‘a blockbuster drug (had become) a blockbuster disaster’ (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). From this result, it is clearly shown that it is important for all companies to act ethically and should be socially responsible in all their actions for them not to have a negative image to the market and can also have a huge impact to their stakeholders. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] is the idea that businesses interact with the organization’s stakeholders for social good while they pursue economic goals’ (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). This means that all stakeholders expect companies to always act responsibly and to consider the society in all their business operations.
ALL WK 1, DQ’s: WK 1, DQ 1: What is a business’s obligation to build an ethical culture and balance its desire for profit with ethical responsibilities to employees, customers, society, and the environment? Ethics is different from one person to the next, so it is imperative that business clearly define the norm for staff members and management. The decisions organizations make influence more than business partners, affiliates, culture, and others. It is important for organizations center of attention on maximizing shareholder revenue. Therefore, maximizing profit without causing destruction to the business culture can be a balancing act for most organizations.
This type of culture provides an excellent foundation to breed innovation. Riordan uses business ethics to interact with other companies to sustain healthy relationships. Most of these ethical considerations are seen as common courtesy. Some unethical behaviors that Riordan are trying to avoid are lying, falsifying information, and stealing/theft. HRM plays a major part in resolving these issues in order establish an ethical
Case1 The goals of this case is to Searching for Byte alternative solutions to feed the increasing demand of its products so can it enable the corporation to maintain a market share also the Ethical dilemma regarding the company vs. Plainville , in addition to highlighting the social responsibilities of corporations that are for the most part considering profit maximization as their primary goal. Additionally, illustrating how the outside directors of the board can play an active role by avoiding groupthink and raising genuine concerns over management decisions by using their unbiased judgment and thereby providing efficient leadership to the company. Suggestions for settling the corporation impasse they can to return to the white board, searching for other solutions that capable to soothe the situation and finding way out to this impasse such as buying a small competitor or extending the business , Maybe Bytes Products and the competitor can enter into strategic alliances and building a new plant in the area may not be needed also According to Carroll’s four responsibilities of Business, Byte is already following the first two responsibilities, Economic: producing electronic components to meet the demand so that Byte could repay its stakeholders; Legal: follow accordingly to the regulation of the state. Hence to compromise for the present impasse, Byte has to follow the last two responsibilities which are Ethic and Discretionary. Byte has to tell its potential employees and town administrator about this temporary operation so that they can plan for their set back when the plant closed in the future.