... be socially ethical needs to consider the following: the cost of being ethical, conflicts between goals and values, and the models of ethical decision making as companies encounter increasing pressure from the public to be socially accountable for their actions. During the dawn of the new public awareness of social responsibility economist Milton Freidman (1997) argued that corporations cannot have social responsibility because they are not real, they are intangible and emotionless. Only human beings are able to have social responsibility (pp. 781-787). Corporate executives of corporations may have individual social values that they feel are important to so ...
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... down to the job of ruling China. Its main goal was essentially nationalist: a prosperous modern economy. While here continued to exist substantially economic inequalities, distribution of wealth was probably a bit more equal than in most Western countries. ( Moise 171 ) While there were great variations in income between different villages, and between different jobs in the urban sector, the overall averages showed a clear pattern: the cities were much richer than the countryside. Most capital investments were going into urban industries. The urban workers, using considerable amount of heavy machinery, had a much higher average level of productivity compared to ...
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... and has materialised her plans i.e. to replace the trees that were destroyed during World War II. About 2.9 million cu m of timber were annually cut in the late 80's and approximately the 75% of the harvest was hardwood. Fish exports are limited because of the widespread consumption of fish products within Greece. However in recent years thousands of tons of fish are exported each year, due to the ever increasing development of fish farms in the country. In the late 80's the annual catch totalled 135000 tons, from which 80% was consumed within Greece. Sponges are the main marine product exported. Mining Mining is of little importance to the Greek economy. We shoul ...
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... simple, relative to each other, and helpful. My major goal is to comprehend an edge and understanding in searching for a job and/or running a successful business. This goal also branches off into many smaller goals or steps. One of these steps is to gain experience by taking this course. The experience I will gain is about running a business and by getting knowledge of our economy to help get a job and help keep or get a job promotion . Another step is to seize more experience in interacting with people in a business. This experience will help extremely at giving better knowledge of how a business runs by its job force. Many things have to be done and met to ...
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... as people, not just employees. Improving the quality of work life is one of the most important trends in personnel management in the 1980's. More and more personnel managers are reporting to the president of an organization rather than a vice-president. (Mathis and Jackson, 1985) Organizations should endeavor to achieve a working environment conducive to job satisfaction. Why? Because employees who get satisfaction from the work they do tend to do quality work consistently, which benefits the organization. At the same time, the individual owes it to him/herself to seek work that is most fulfilling to him. Failure to do this leads to the quote from Studs ...
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... profit from the business that he finds acceptable, and does not want the hassle of either expanding his current business, setting up new shops, or taking over another business. The size of a business does however depend a great deal on the market which it is in. For example a business which makes specialist goods, or caters to only a very small number of people, will not be able to grow beyond the capacity of that market. This means that the optimum size for a business in a market with little growth and only a small number of prospective customers would be large enough to serve as many customers as it had market share for, but small enough to ensure that they don' ...
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... is a serious threat to the lives of the poor. The unemployed people may also feel that it is unmeaningful to live. As a result, they will commit suicide to solve the problem. Moreover, the high unemployment rate results in the increase of the rate of crime. There was an unemployed man who stole rice because he was too hungry and he did not have money to even buy food! We can know how serious the unemployment rate is. By the way, higher unemployment rate causes lower purchasing power of people. A lot of kinds of business are affected. Many people lose confidence in economics of Hong Kong. They do not believe unemployment will be improved. Some say that the Governm ...
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... sales. More recent developments include FX’s expansion into the South Pacific. The key to the success of this IJV has been the autonomy and trust provided by the partners over the years and management teams. * * * * * In this report, we will take a look at the background of FX, why Xerox and Fuji established the IJV, what the issues encountered and results achieved by both partners were, and their formation process. We will also look at some of the recent developments effecting FX, and in conclusion, summarize what we believe to be the key points which helped FX develop into a very valuable asset in the Xerox Group. Background of Fuji Xerox Structure Th ...
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... hours a day, seven days a week. Since the Internet can be accessed by millions of people all time, it would be a great incentive for such a business like Amazon to do business over the Internet. The Internet can help Amazon in number of extraordinary ways. First, the Internet is an excellent way to make business information available to possible consumers. Say a person hears about a product that Amazon produces and would like to know more information about that product. Well, through Internet access, that person can easily locate the Amazon web site and browse through the information needed. Amazon has the description, price, and pictures of all available products. ...
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... the products with which Canada supplies to them through trade. China, a communist country, with the largest population in the world, relies heavily on Canadian food products to feed its enormous population. If Canada were to suddenly sever trade with China, not only would Canada lose a large portion of revenue generated from that trade, but also many Chinese people would starve, as China does not have the means to produce enough food for its peoples. Advocates for trade with all countries, regardless of a country's human rights issues, argue that trade sanctions do not harm the government in charge, but rather harm the people who live under that governments rule. ...
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