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Read: Chapter 3 - 16th Edition. Strategic Management A Competitive Approach, Concepts, and Cases by Fred R. David and Forest R. David (PDF File - Pages 96 to 114) ACTNMESIASSESSEHTS 1. If you owned a small business, would you develop a code of business conduct? If yes, what variables would you include? If no, how would you ensure that ethical business standards were being followed by your employees? 2. How can firms best ensure that their code of business ethics is read. understood. believed. remembered, and acted upon? 3. Why is it important not to view the concept of I'whistle blowing\" as \"tattle-telling\" or \"railing\" on another employee? 4. The Ethics of Spying on Competitors Purpose This exercise gives you an opportunity to discuss in class ethical and legal issues related to methods being used by many companies to spy on competing rms. Gathering and using information about competitors is an area of strategic management that Japanese rms do more prociently than American firms. Instructions For the 10 spy'ng activities that follow. indicate whether or not you believe the activity is ethical or unethical. Briefly explain why you think the following actions are ethical or unethical. Dissecting competitors' products Counting tractor-trailer trucks leaving competitors' loading bays Studying aerial photographs of competitors' facilities Analyz'ng competitors' help-wanted ads Quizzing customers and buyers about the sales of competitors' products Quizzing suppliers about competitors' level of manufacturing Quizzing competitors' former employees Interviewing consultants who may have worked with competitors Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors' employees to reveal information 10. Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors' technical employees 5995:4139?fo Rm- David, F. 8. David, F. (2017). Strategic ManagementA Competitive Approach, Concepts, and Cases 16d! Edition. England1 UK: Pearson Educational Limited