Chen Xi
Su Wei
Mei Han
Zhao Wei
Wang Mo
Li Yinghan
Tse Lai Sze
Q2. 1. What are the main ethical issues for Professor Ballistico?
Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and the application of reason to elucidate specific rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation. Some of the controversy regarding business ethics is no doubt due to different understandings of what constitutions morality or ethics in the first place. In this case, Ballistico is a professor who is conducting a research and has come to some new findings. According to his professions, he should be honest and objective to his research and it is his responsibility publishes the results as what it originally was to enable the
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People’s lives are increasingly controlled and shaped no longer by governments but also by corporations. For example, the liberalization and deregulation have given more influence, liberty and choices to private actors.
For government, the corporations share the burden, for example, unemployment rate can be affected also by the conducts of corporations. As a result, the government can use their money more freely to benefit the society.
Limits: The involvement of the corporations brings more risks which require government to establish more laws and require more self- regulations.
The government may lose the power on significant issues and may gradually at a weaker state than before. What’s more, social issues can be easily separated from governmental controls.
Q3
Caroll’s model
CSR includes the economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic expectations placed o organizations by society at a given time.
The key is when it comes to a “pyramid”, the base is important before one climbs to the top – “philanthropic”. Although in India / China, the corporations are expected to “share” their wealth by focusing on charitable donations, the most important issues for CSR is whether it is right/enough in doing so -- has it met the expectations of the public or the world; has it taken account of all its stakeholders in different levels?
In terms of economic responsibility, all of the companies in the Satyam Fraud case, earn huge profits in
Though the regulations on big businesses had a positive effect on the United states, it seems as if there are not enough. Within large corporations that are ran not completely, but partially by the government, there was a huge gap created that separated the rich and the poor. In the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, the structure of the United States economy was transformed. Rapid advancements in technology were made, causing factory owners to gain wealth and prestige. These advancements had a negative effect on the poor because it did not fit their daily spendings or budgets. There are two different regulations set towards big businesses, which are state regulation and federal regulation. A state regulation does not include regulations issued by executive branch agencies, decisions of federal courts,
The scope of this paper is to break down and define social regulation, industrial regulation, and natural monopolies by explaining how they have impacted society and why they exist. It is also the intent to summarize the Antitrust Laws, explain the major functions of the five primary federal regulatory commissions that govern social regulation, and identify three main regulatory commissions of industrial regulation.
Business men tried to influence the government to allow them to conduct businesses with no restrictions by using Social Darwinism and Laissez-faire. The philosophies indicated that the government should intervene in the way businesses were conducted or the amount of wealth accumulated by big corporations. Courts, which were a part of the government manipulated laws in favor of big corporations. For instance, they allowed the development of railway by defining corporations as a person. The railway system led to the growth in national and international
These companies control the product supply and price and employees’ salary. It indicated government is corrupt and incompetence. 3. I think the power of government is the important force to prevent the robber baron.
There are continuous discussions regarding a number of things in today’s society, such as “Do Corporations have rights?” and “To what limit should Government be allowed to impose regulation on the Private Sector?” which can accurately be assessed as being partially symptomatic of this increasingly prevalent line of thinking.
n this book, Scott R. Bowman offers interpretation of corporate power, and how it has achieved its dominant position in American society at the time. Mr. Bowman demonstrates how regulations govern the growth of corporate power, while maintaining autonomy. Ultimately, this book describes the political theory, it is advisable to take into account the power of the modern corporation in all
Unlike the United States, other countries differ in their opinion as to the level of accountability corporate entities need to be held to. Whereas the corporate entities that exist in the United States are broadly entitled, the law fails to restrict corporations as much as it does their individual counterparts. Our system is so overreaching to the extent that in a landmark Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, the rights of corporate entities have been protected so that the corporate personhood has been essentially granted the first amendment right of freedom of speech. In that decision the court granted these personhoods the unrestricted allowance to fund political organizations thus leaving the individual helpless. These allowances therefore spawn situations where corporate entities have advantages over individuals. In other cases the law limits corporate influences and basic rights, and most importantly their structure. This frequently creates a leeway for employees to break the law and only receive a minimal punishment. Lastly, in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, the court allowed for very wealthy companies to significantly sway political
The roles that government play in the global work environment is that in today’s world majority of businesses need to register with a state government to function. Corporations need a charter, and other forms of businesses, such as limited liability companies or partnerships, need other forms of registration. The purpose of this registration is usually to define the financial accountability the owners of the company have. It limits their risk to the amount they have invested in that particular organization. Registration also allows the government to monitor companies to execute its other functions in the business world.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is something that affects all companies and should be an active factor in the company’s decision making. It is something all corporations need to care about. CSR is when business’ or corporations take part in an initiative or campaign for a cause that will benefit society and/or in some way make the world a better place (Taylor, 2015). Initially, Corporate Social Responsibility started to take shape around the 1950’s, but some say that it dates all the way back to the 1800s, the idea of CSR was seen (Carroll, 2007). One may think that because it is dated so long ago, it doesn’t have an important impact today nevertheless, it is proven that Corporate Social Responsibility is a pathway for entities to self benefit as they are in the process of benefitting society.
All in all, a picture of unfair competition stands out, which needs to be reduced unconditionally. Because how should a company, which is strictly regulated and, for example, also has to hand over high tax levies to the state, compete with a company which is not subject to the same rules, but instead much lower and more convenient
Today, the Big Business is one of the main features of the modern economic environment. Big Business refers mainly to corporations, huge economic entities operating for profit and distributing the ownership by the means of stocks. The Big Business started to grow in America after the Civil War, in the 1860s and already reached its peak of strengths by the “roaring” 1920s. Although Big Business faces much social and governmental control nowadays, its power is still enormous. Large business corporations provide most of economic output, employment places, financial investments, and production output. Politics is also very much influenced by the large corporations and is often forced into pursuing businesses’ strategic interests. Even average
Government intervention could put downside pressure on the stock. Possible government intervention increases risk, because the government is a big customer and has a history of making adverse changes to the operating ability of companies in every industry. A government regulated industry increases political risk, because government actions may not be in the best interest of citizen of that particular country. Governments are usually inefficient with spending money.
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) is a term describing a company’s obligation to be accountable to all of its stakeholder in all its operation and activities. Socially responsible companies consider the full scope of their impact on communities and the environment when making decisions, balancing the needs of stakeholder with their need to make profit.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the intention of the companies to do the right things and act in certain ways that are good for the company, society and environment. CSR was accelerated in 1970 (Archie B, 2006) and took into account since there was a concern between the increased population and scarce resources. It was established in order to ensure that the global development is sustainable. There are three fundamental aspects of sustainability, economic progress, communities’ relationships and environmental protection. This essay will report the managerial skills, leadership style and management practises in leading and managing an organisation to promote better and greener environment. Considerable research has been undertaken on Toyota Motors Corporation.
The actions taken by the government are effective but the private companies always find a way to manipulate the laws and to disguise the society by false advertising strategies and using other unethical ways to carry out their business.