Business Ethics An Indian Perspective 2nd Edition Pearson India - Solutions

2. Discuss administrative corruption in India. How can corruption be controlled?
Discuss administrative corruption in India. How can corruption be controlled?
Discuss the factors that are responsible for the growth of corruption in India especially after the liberalization of the economy.
What are your suggestions for India to get rid of corruption and bribery?
Did Dubey’s martyrdom bring any tangible benefits to the Golden Quadrilateral project and the nation as a whole?
Discuss in brief the tragic episode of Stayendra Dubey’s death. What, in your perception, is an alternative course that Dubey could have used to achieve his objective without sacrificing his life?
What is whistle-blowing? Why and how should the whistle-blowers be protected?
Discuss some of the instances of whistleblowing. Do you think over country has been fail to whistle blowers?
What are the guidelines, in your opinion, for whistleblowing?
Discuss the different stages in the formulation of the Whistleblower Protection Law. In what stage is it now?
There is a perception among the employees of business corporations that being a whistle blower is unethical and a means of busting the person who provided succour.
What do you understand by whistle blowing? Do you think it is an effective instrument to check unethical business practices in companies?
What are the frauds that are generally committed in the insurance sector? How can these be prevented?Suggest some proactive measures Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority can initiate to
Bring out the salient features of the Banking Ombudsman Scheme 2006. Explain the latest amendments RBI has added to the scheme.
Discuss the salient features of Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002. Should the government think of more stringent measures to put more teeth to the Act and make it more effective?
Explain the role of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in combating bank frauds. To what extent is the RBI’s role effective in curbing the menace?
What are the types of bank frauds? What are the measures available to combat such frauds?
Make a brief analysis of (i) ethical issues in financial markets and (ii) ethical issues in financial services industry. Explain how these issues multiplied several fold due to the growth of use of
Explain what is covered under the subject financial management. While doing so, distinguish between financial accounting and financial management.
What are some of the latest incarnations of cyber crimes that have emerged in the last one or two years? Furnish examples from your own experience or from what you have heard/read.\
What are your recommendations to the business sector to help themselves from the devastating effects that cyber crimes could cause to their information security?
What is cyber terrorism? Why is it becoming a matter of enormous concern in today’s global scenario?
The deployment of human firewalls is perhaps the most important step towards ensuring foolproof network security in an organization. What is your take on this statement?
Explain some of the ways and means of protecting ourselves as individuals from internet crimes.
Though technology is extremely useful for organizational efficiency and productivity, it can also be easily misused.Comment.
What are the factors that contribute to the tremendous increase in cyber crimes? Enumerate some of the measures that can be adopted to prevent them.
Discuss the legislations pertaining to cyber crimes. What are your suggestions to make Indian legislations more effective to combat cyber crimes?
Differentiate between the terms spoofing and phishing.Furnish examples from the real world.
What are cyber crimes? Classify them based on (a) the modus operandi, (b) the targeted victims and (c) the type of crime
Illustrate with suitable examples how the HR strategy of the judicious involvement of workers in the turnaround of Rourkela Steel Plant worked wonders. Do you think this kind of strategy can be
Discuss briefly the HMSI case and the reasons for the failure of the strategy adopted by the management to contain the workers’ agitation to secure their rights.
Explain in the context of HMSI case how better wages and perquisites alone cannot suppress forever, the workers’demands for the exercise of their legitimate rights.
Assume that you are the Vice President of a large very profitable public limited company, not known for a strong ethical culture. How would you convert it into an ethical organization?
Discuss in brief, the ethical issues involved in Human Resource Management.
How do you account for the vastly changing profile of HR professionals in recent times?
Explain the genesis and growth of HRM. What is the significance of HRM in the present days of tremendous paucity of quality human resource?
List some marketing practices under each of the four Ps of marketing that you think are unethical in nature.Reason out why.
Do you think the central axiom of marketing ‘satisfy consumers’ may lead to unethical marketing? Explain.
Some believe that practitioners of marketing can be trained in marketing ethics, while a few others opine that since marketing ethics is highly correlated to personal ethics, ethical capacity in
What is ethical capacity within the ambit of marketing ethics? Why is ethical capacity among marketing practitioners low?
How is marketing ethics different from laws that govern marketing practices?
What is the difference between tacit and explicit codes of marketing ethics?
Compare and contrast P&G India’s ‘Purposes, Values and Principles’ (www.pg-india.com/hhcl/pvp.htm) with that of the code of marketing ethics of American Marketing Association
Visit American Marketing Association’s web site www.marketingpower.com, read the code of marketing ethics and comment.
What is marketing ethics? How does the element of time impact the current understanding of what is ethical in marketing?
Make a comparative study of how various unethical practices are viewed in Indian, Korean and American societies as shown by the survey undertaken by Christie et al.
Discuss the role of parallel economy in India. Do you think it can be eliminated?
Discuss some of the most common unethical issues found in India. What impact do they have on the orderly growth of Indian economy?
Name the reasons for unethical practices among Indian corporations. Do you concur with the view that Indian companies cannot afford to be ethical for various reasons?
Discuss the nature and role of Indian capital market. What are its deficiencies?
Ketan Parekh scam 2001 reveals certain systemic failures of the Indian capital market. What are they?
What lessons can be learnt from the Ketan Parekh scam?
Explain in your own words the Ketan Parekh scam of 2001.
Discuss the objectives of SEBI. To what extent has SEBI been able to realize its objectives?
What is Clause 49? Has it been effective in ensuring better corporate governance/ethical practices among companies in India?
Discuss the role of (1) public opinion, (2) media, and (3) judiciary in promoting ethical practices among corporates in India.
Discuss in brief about the various agencies that ensure ethical practices among corporations in India.
If you were elected the Mayor of Tirupur Township, what measures would you initiate and execute to ensure that all the environmental problems are solved there?
What is the environmental impact that the dyeing units have caused on the environment surrounding Tirupur?
Explain in your own words, ‘The Tirupur Story’.
Discuss the Indian draft law on e-waste recycling and management. Do you think it would prevent the country being used as a dumping ground for e-waste?
Why is accumulation of e-waste assuming alarming proportions in India? What are the remedies available to tackle them?
Discuss critically ‘The National Environmental Policy 2004’.
Discuss any two of the following:a. Environmental audit.b. Public sector initiatives in environmental preservation in India.c. Private sector efforts in India to preserve environment.
What is the role of corporations in environmental preservation?
Environmental regulations and processes of preservation are said to be costly. If you were to take a stance opposed to this line of thinking what arguments you will put forward to rebut it?
Discuss the future outlook on environment, with particular reference to sustainable development.
What are the roles stakeholders are expected to play in ensuring environmental preservation?
Trace the history and growth of environmentalism. What is the philosophy behind environmentalism?
Explain the various nuances of the Consumer Protection Act (both 1986 and the Amended Act 2002) and comment on its efficacy.
Trace and comment critically on the history and growth of consumer protection in India.
Explain, with suitable examples, how Indian consumers are exploited?
Consumer interests can scarcely be protected unless he or she carries on his or her duties and responsibilities.What are these? Explain.
In every other segment of capitalist economy, advocates of the system want governmental intervention to be avoided. But, why is State intervention preferred in promoting consumer interests?
Trace the history and growth of consumer protection. What role did Ralph Nader play in promoting consumer interests?
How important is the consumer as a stakeholder in a corporation? Substantiate your stand.
Discuss in detail, CSR as a business strategy for sustainable development.
To what extent have Indian companies zealously espoused CSR in their activities? Will it be correct to think that whatever has been done in this area is good, but yet there is a lot more to be done
Would you justify the view of economists like Milton Friedman that corporations have no other responsibility other than making profits for their shareholders?
Why should corporations engage themselves in social welfare projects?
Discuss the problems that have led to poor investor protection in India. What are the investor grievances redressal mechanisms that have been put in place by SEBI and other authorities? How effective
Several committees have discussed the issue of investor protection. In this context, discuss the views of the following committees on this issue:(i) Working Group on the Companies Act(ii) Kumar
Discuss the rights of shareholders. Also explain the corresponding responsibilities of investors.
What is the need to protect the interests of investors? Discuss this in the context of family-promoted companies and corporations in emerging economics.
Explain Tata Steel’s CSR policy. In your assessment, to what extent the Tata Steel has put into practice its precepts of the CSR policy?
Jamshedpur city has been praised by people as a model city.What are the factors that have contributed to the evolution of the Steel City as a model city?
How did Tata Steel achieve downsizing of the Jamshedpur Steel plant? Do you think it is an ideal policy for others to follow?
Review the present corporate governance practices in India. Do you think that things are likely to improve on this front in future?
What is Clause 49? Do you think that if Indian corporations comply with all the stipulations of Clause 49 we will have better corporate governance mechanism in India?
Explain what constitutes good corporate governance from the context of different stakeholders.
What is the relevance of corporate governance? Do you think better governance practices boost corporate performance? Give illustrations.
Discuss the various issues in corporate governance. Are these issues universal? To what extent are these issues viewed differently in the context of developing/emerging economies?
What are the requirements of corporate governance as envisaged by the OECD?
What do you understand by corporate governance? Has the need for it arisen only because of the ‘problems that result from the separation of ownership and control’?
Trace the evolution of corporate governance, both in the Western countries and in India. What are the factors that led to the increasing awareness of the need for corporate governance?
Applying the various yardsticks that are listed in this chapter, would you be able to call Wipro an ethical organization?If not, list the flaws in the organization that fail the test.
Account for the stupendous growth achieved by Wipro in a very short period of time.
Explain how you would build an ethical organization, step by step. In such an endeavour, which of our Indian entrepreneurs would you choose as your role model, and why?
How are business ethics, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility interconnected? What are the underlying principles that run through these ethical threesome?
Discuss the reasons why the conventional model of corporate governance failed to improve the ethical performance of companies. List the measures you would suggest to improve ethical corporate

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