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Business Ethics : Decision Making For Personal Integrity And Social Responsibility 2nd Edition Laura Pincus Hartman; Joseph R. DesJardins - Solutions
7. Do you believe that business has an y direct ethical duties to living beings other than humans? Do animals, plants, or ecosystems ha ve rights? What criteria have you used in answering such questions? What is your own standard for determining what objects count, from a moral point of view?
6. Investigate what is in volved in an en vironmental audit. Has such an audit been con- ducted at your own college or university? In what ways has your own school adopted sustainable practices? In what ways would your school need to change to become more sustainable?
5. Apply the concept of sustainability to a variety of businesses and industries. What would sustainable ag riculture require? What are sustainable energy sources?
4. A movement within the European Union requires that a business take back its products at the end of their useful life. Can you learn the details of such laws? Discuss whether or not you believe such a law could be passed in the United States. Should the United States have similar laws?
3. Research corporate sustainability reports. How many corporations can you find that issue annual reports on their progress towards sustainability? Can you research a com- pany that does not and explore why not (perhaps through its critics), or whether it has plans to change?
2. Conduct a Web search for ecological footprint analysis. You should be able to find a self-administered test to evaluate your own ecological footprint. If everyone on earth lived as you do, how many earths would be required to support this lifestyle?
1. As a research project, choose a product with which you are familiar (one with local connections is best), and trace its entire life cycle. From where does this product origi- nate? What resources go into its design and manufacture? How is it transported, sold, used, and disposed of? Along each
8. Highlight the business opportunities associated with a move towards sustainability
7. Defi ne and describe sustainable development and sustainable business.
6. Identify the inadequacies of regulatory-based environmental policies.
5. Identify the inadequacies of sole reliance on a market-based approach.
4. Describe business’ environmental responsibilities that fl ow from each approach.
3. Explain the difference between market-based and regulatory-based environmental policies.
2. Describe a range of values that play a role in environmental decision making.
1. Explain how environmental challenges can create business opportunities.
9. Go to the FTC Web site (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/grnrule/guides980427.htm) and review the cases in the Decision Point, "Examples of Greenwashing." You will find the FTC's judgment on each case (and others). Do you agree with the FTC's assessment of misleading environmental marketing examples?
8. In 2001, TAP Pharmaceuticals pled guilty to par ticipating in a criminal conspirac y with doctors by providing free samples of Lupron for which the doctors later billed Medicare and patients. Federal prosecutors also charged TAP executives and midlevel managers with fraud, alleging that TAP
7. Many salespeople are compensated predominantly on a commission basis. In other words, though the salesperson recei ves a small base hourly rate, most of her or his compensation derives from a percentage of the price of items sold. Since basically the salesperson makes money only if you buy
6. Review the Decision Point, "Mark eting in Schools" (concerning mark eting in the schools and Channel One), and ref ect on your own educational experience. Assume you were offered a laptop computer as long as y ou understood that you would see a commercial every time you turned it on and for two
5. Collect several sample prescription drug ads from magazines, newspapers, and television. On the basis of location of the ad, what do you think is the intended target
4. The Federal Trade Commission regulates advertising on the basis of two criteria: deception and unfairness. How can an ad be unfair? Who gets hurt by deceptive advertising?
3. Research the case Pelman v. McDonald's in which it was alleged that McDonald's was partially responsible for the health problems associated with the obesity of children who eat McDonald's fast food. Should McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants be judged negligent for selling dangerous
2. Conduct a classroom debate on the McDonald's spilt coffee case. Conduct an Internet search for this case (Liebeck v. McDonald's) to find both legal and journalistic comments on this case. One-third of the class should play the role of Mrs. Liebeck's attorneys, one-third the role of McDonald's
1. Are some products too dangerous to be marketed in any circumstance? What regulations, if any, would you place on marketing cigarettes? Handguns? Prescription drugs?
Imagine that you are in the marketing department of a firm that manufacturers a consumer product such as laundry detergent or shampoo. Describe how it might be marketed differently in India. What are the key facts relevant to your judgment?What ethical issues are involved in a firm's decision to
What responsibilities, ethical and economic, do firms face when marketing in other countries and among differ- ent cultures?
How do the alternatives compare; how do the alternatives you have identified affect the stakeholders?Do you think that business firms and industries have an ethical responsibility to address global poverty by creating the capacity to consume among the world's poor? Do you think that this can be
What ethical issues are involved in a firm's decision to market its products among the world's poor by creating the capacity to consume? Who are the stakeholders?
Imagine that you are in the marketing department of a firm that manufacturers a consumer product such as laundry detergent or shampoo. Describe how it might be marketed differently in India. What are the key facts relevant to your judgment?
Do you think that business firms and industries have an ethical responsibility to address global poverty by creating the capacity to consume among the world's poor? Do you think that this can be done? What responsibilities, ethical and economic, do firms face when marketing in other countries and
If some school districts propose advertising on and in buses, which are public property paid for by tax dollars, does that raise additional issues? Who are the stakeholders of your decision? What is the impact of each alternative decision on each stakeholder you have identified? What rights and
What alternative marketing practices are open to companies that sell products to children?
Should advertising be allowed in schools? What facts would you want to know before deciding this question?
What are the consequences of alternative marketing strategies? What rights and duties are involved?
In 1992 a 70-year-old woman was severely burned when a cup of coffee she had just purchased at a McDonald's drive-through window spilled on her lap. She apparently held the cup between her legs and tried to pry off the lid as she drove away. The coffee was hot enough (185 degrees) to cause
12. Explain how marketing can contribute towards a more sustainable business model.
11. Discuss business’s responsibilities for the activities of its supply chain.
10. Distinguish ethical from unethical target marketing, using marketing to vulnerable populations as an example.
9. uence on consumer autonomy.
8. Explain the ethical justification for advertising.
7. Discuss how to evaluate both ethical and unethical means by which to infl
6. Analyze the ethical arguments for and against strict product liability.
5. Articulate the tort standards for establishing business’s responsibilities for safe products.
4. Explain contractual standards for establishing business’s responsibilities for safe products.
3. Describe three interpretations of responsibility and apply them to the topic of product safety.
2. Describe the three key concerns of ethical analysis of marketing issues.
1. Apply an ethical framework to marketing issues.
Are voluntary codes of conduct created by an industry group effective means for establishing and enforcing ethical guidelines?
What are the costs and benefits of marketing prescription drugs directly to physicians?
Who are the stakeholders involved in direct to consumer advertising?
To what degree, if any, should drug manufacturers be held responsible for the side-effects caused by the drugs they sell?
What ethical issues are involved in marketing prescription drugs?
What facts would you want to know before making a judgment on the ethical appropriateness of direct to consumer advertising of drugs?
5. What restrictions or procedural restraints have been placed on the privacy- invading techniques? 6 6. How will the personal knowledge be protected once it has been acquired?
4. Is invasion of privacy the only or the least of fensive means of obtaining the knowledge?
3. Is the knowledge sought through in vasion of privacy relevant to its justifying purpose?
2. Is this purpose a legitimate and important one?
1. For what purpose is the undocumented personal knowledge sought?
How do the alternatives compare; how do the alternatives affect the stakeholders?
What alternatives would you suggest to this individual, and what alterna- tives exist for employers who wish to gather information about employees surreptitiously?
What is the ethical issue involved in peer spying in the workplace? Who are the stakeholders?
What are some of the questions or concerns you might bring up in an answer and what would you suggest this individual do to respond to them? What are the key facts relevant to your response?
15. Discuss the implications of September 11, 2001, on privacy rights.Introduction
14. Explain the interests of an employer in regulating an employee’s activities outside of work.
13. Discuss the elements of a monitoring program that might balance the interests of the employee and the employer.
12. Explain why monitoring might also pose some costs for the employer and for the employee.
11. Discuss the ethics of monitoring as it applies to polygraphs, genetic testing,
10. Discuss the ethics of monitoring as it applies to drug testing.
9. Enumerate the reasons why employers choose to monitor employees’ work.
7. Identify additional ethical challenges posed by technology use.
6. Explain the risks involved in a failure to understand the implications of technology and its use.
5. Discuss recent development in connection with employee monitoring.
. Discuss the concept of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
3. Identify the three legal sources of privacy protection.
2. Describe the ethical sources of privacy as a fundamental value.
1. Explain and distinguish the two definitions of privacy.
What alternative or additional standards might you suggest? Which ethical theories most strongly support which alternatives?
Who are the stakeholders in connection with technology use at your firm?
What are the key facts relevant to your decision regarding the practicality of these standards?
What ethical issues might arise with regard to the development of both the policy and the procedures that you would suggest to enforce them?
How would each of your alternatives affect each of the stakeholders you have identified?What are the key facts relevant to issues of due process and fairness?
What are the origins of coaching and what challenges have served to create a need for it?In addition to the race question raised above, what are some of the other ethi-cal issues that come to mind when you consider this practice?
What key facts are relevant to the issue of coaching?
What are some of the other ethical issues that come to mind when you consider this proposed “solution”? What is the effect of regulation such as Title VII on Posner’s argument? Even if the market could work against discrimination, is this matter sufficiently important from an ethical
Is there any guidance available from global organizations to assist you in resolving this particular dilemma of child labour ?
Who are the stakeholders in connection with child labor? What alternative responses might you suggest?
What are the ethical issues involved in child labor? What incentives might be in place that would actively support or pose challenges to your response?
What are the key facts relevant to your decision regarding child labor?
What facts would you want to know before deciding whether the practice of exporting dangerous jobs was fair and responsible?What alternatives to exporting dangerous jobs exist for a firm?Once you have reached your decision, which constituencies do you anticipate will be most supportive and which
15. Articulate the basic guidelines for affirmative action programs.
14. Define affirmative action and explain the three ways in which affirmative action may be legally permissible.
13. Explain the benefits and challenges of diversity for the workplace.
12. Define diversity as it applies to the workplace.
11. Describe the argument for a market-based resolution to workplace discrimination.
10. Explain the basic arguments for and against regulation of the global labor environment.
9. Describe the nature of an employer’s responsibility with regard to employee health and safety and why the market is not the most effective arbiter of this responsibility.
8. Describe the “acceptable risk” approach to health and safety in the workplace.
7. Explain the difference between intrinsic and instrumental value in terms of health and safety.
6. Discuss whether it is possible to downsize in an ethical manner.
5. Explain how due process relates to performance appraisals.
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