They are affecting BUGusa, Inc.'s reputation by making statements about them that may be false. The defamation is called libel. Scenario: WIRETIME, Inc. (Janet) Has WIRETIME, Inc. committed any torts? If so, explain. WIRETIME, Inc. has interfered with an existing contractual relationship that Janet has with BUGusa, Inc. when they offered Janet a job with their company.
Unethical privacy practices can have both immediate and long-term negative business consequences. Violators expose themselves to harsh penalties from various government agencies and victimized customers, as well as bloggers and consumer interest groups. All of the above Question 13.13. (TCO 7) Ethical issues raised by m-commerce include all of the following except (Points : 5) limited access to data and documents. privacy invasion.
I could lose my job and I could have legal action taken against me 1.2. How duty of care contributes to the safeguarding or protection of individuals. Under the duty of care I am to report and concerns I have regarding potential abuse an individual may be subject to. In my role I have a duty of care to raise any concerns I may have about any aspect of my work. These can range from inadequate working conditions, poor equipment, poor practice by other staff; to raising concerns about potential abuse cases and situations of neglect.
What are the benefits that come from whistle-blowing? What are some of the problems it might cause? Model Whistle-Blower Policy: • Publicize a reporting policy that encourages reporting of valid complaints of wrongdoing. • Establish a reporting procedure that allows anonymous complaints or complaints to someone outside of the chain of command. • Investigate the situation immediately.
In terms of time management, productive behaviour includes skillful time management skills. Counter-productive workplace behaviour is defined as any intentional behaviour on the part of an organization member viewed by the organization as contrary to its legitimate interests (Impelman, Kevin, 2006, http://digital.library.unt.edu/data/etd/2006_2/permissions/meta-dc-5602.tkl). Counterproductive behaviour includes property-based and production-based deviance that represent violations of the implicit or explicit standards of acceptable workplace behaviour. Other counterproductive behaviour includes sexual harassment, aggressiveness, substance abuse and others. According to "International Foundation" (2012), behaviours might serve the immediate self-interest of an employee, they are ultimately destructive to the
The cheating management is providing fake accounts and incurring inherent internal audit risks, however, it is the external auditors’ responsibility to remain a critical and suspicious thinking over these accounts and investigate any further misrepresentations in the publicly released financial statement. The audit team should also include more auditors in their discussion of the suspicious accounts and come to an integral and practical measure to dig deeper into the target company’s financial
He lives up to this label with his current scandal involving him calling a female law student from Georgetown University a “slut” on his radio program. This along with the fact that he is somewhat famous makes Limbaugh newsworthy because people are always interested in something dramatic. If Limbaugh says something to offend someone, people will want to hear about to see “what did he say this time” or “someone said that on the radio?” This is the reason why the story has grown so rapidly. People are interested in controversy; on one hand it excites feminist and others who support Sandra Fluke. On the other it prompts people to realize and defend the fact that we are constitutionally protected to say what we want.
Introduction The events of September 11th 2001 have cause a major alteration in the world. After 9/11 many countries throughout the world have increased security in airports and country borders, and increased security in main areas of major cities. The biggest consequence of 9/11 however was the USA’s war on terror. The war on terror was started with the objective of recognizing, finding and destroying terrorists, denying sponsorships to terrorist organizations and defending people all over the world from future terrorist attacks. However, the USA’s war on terror has had a negative effect on many countries in the world as well as their own, and their citizens by creating animosity in the international community, causing a downturn in their own economy and their major allies, and ruining their international reputation.
Two of the many concerns within this topic are those of conflicting duties and agent motivation. The former is often couched in terms of a tension between a duty of loyality to the company that one incurs as an employee and a duty to society in general. one incurs as a citizen. The latter issue raises the question of whether or not the whistleblower's reasons for acting are self serving or properly moral. Write an essay that addresses both the question of whether or not there can be genuine cases of conflicting duties giving our dual role as both employee and citizen and takes up the issue of how a whistle blower's intentions relate to the differences between utilitarian and kantian ethical intuitions.
Under what conditions, if any, is whistleblowing morally justifiable? INTRODUCTION Business ethicists define whistle blowing as an act of disclosure made by a person about some wrong doings by a corporation to an external agency which is difficult for the public to know otherwise. Companies have started implementing policies against whistle blowing. There are several ethical issues confronted by whistleblowers. Whistleblower can be justified only after looking at the Perspectives on Whistle Blowing and is discussed in detail later.