Business Memorandum: You are in charge of hiring college interns at a regional bank. You check their credit reports and learn that many of them carry student loan debt and are struggling financially. High credit scores are a condition for permanent employment. Write a detailed memo to all interns to teach them about FICO scores … Read more
You are a high level manager for a corporation that has recently expanded into the global market. You have been asked to manage an interdepartmental team that will help you to create a global ethics training program. Imagine that your team has very little, if any, experience with ethics training or international management. Create a … Read more
Research what makes a successful Social Media Marketing strategy. Then identify a Fortune 500 company that you find interesting. Research what the Fortune 500 company (that isn’t a pure play social media company itself – no FB, Twitter etc.) is doing in the way of Social Media Marketing. Then provide a critique of the pros … Read more
You have been asked by your CEO to recruit for a new position: corporate ethics officer. Prepare a job description (minimum 200 words) for this new position. In the job description, make sure to discuss the role the ethics officer will play in the company as well as the qualifications this individual must hold.
What is whistle blowing, and why is it important to the study of business ethics? Provide details. Discuss the reasons why an employee would refrain from reporting potentially unethical behavior within his/her organization? Should a corporation establish an ethics hotline? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having one. One reference needs to be from Stanwick, … Read more
Knowledge management is a prerequisite for eBusiness and its increasing customer centric focus. To operate in an eBusiness environment, an organisation has to have a good command of knowledge on its markets, customers, products and services, methods and processes, competitors, employee skills and its regulatory environment. This is due to the fact that organisations can, … Read more
GLOBAL AND COMPETITIVE STRATEGY -Forum 7 Chapters 7 and 8 Once a company has developed a blue ocean strategy, it must execute it. The Blue Ocean strategy identifies 4 hurdles to execution, Cognitive, Political, Resource and Motivation. Are these the only hurdles a business leader will face when implementing a strategy? Provide examples to support … Read more
Describe how you would use two of the motivational theories/strategies presented in Chapter Seven to motivate disgruntled, unmotivated, hostile employees. The two theories are defined below; Expectancy theory – Based on the assumption that motivational strength is determined by whether or not you believe you can be successful at a task. Motivation-maintenance theory – A … Read more
Discuss Why Public Service Matters.
The Echo Chamber Revisted: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/jun/17/echo-chamber-revisited/ The media “echo chamber” is the idea that we are increasingly able to cherry-pick our news sources and thus reinforce our worldview. 1. How does the notion of the “echo chamber” contradict earlier ideas about the availability of information on the internet? 2. What does this trend have to do … Read more