Ethical Decision making: Methods of Ethical Analysis
Explain the role of ethical moral reasoning in the business environment.
What common industry financial benchmarks should Uber consider in developing its strategies to grow the business?
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You have analyzed the current financial records of your organization and evaluated whether the operational plan aligns with key performance indicators of the finance department.
Now, your CEO wants you to present to senior management how your department (or any individual department) can contribute to the financial success of the organization.
Analyze Uber’s financial success and present your findings to senior management. In your findings, you will identify financial key performance indicators, industry financial benchmarks, and accounting guidelines related to Uber. Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook, and review the additional information related to Uber provided.
Review the Uber Case Study provided in the textbook.
Investor information for Uber balanced scorecard/financial: In the annual report, review Uber’s balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.
Uber: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environment, social, governance (ESG) metrics
Create a presentation for your CEO and senior management, discussing the following key criteria:
Identify the financial key performance indicators of Uber’s success.
Analyze how different functional areas, departments, or both of Uber contribute to its overall financial success.
What common industry financial benchmarks should Uber consider in developing its strategies to grow the business?
Which financial benchmark can Uber adopt to measure its performance and increase its industry attractiveness? Use Porter’s five forces to support your answer.
Are there any critical elements of accounting guidelines that will be crucial for Uber to meet? Explain your reasoning.
Define a problem statement that, in your opinion, would be useful and practical for you to investigate, based on the information presented in your annotated bibliography sources.
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Review your annotated bibliography.
Define a problem statement that, in your opinion, would be useful and practical for you to investigate, based on the information presented in your annotated bibliography sources.
Organize your sources by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and problem.
Give your opinion as to the most preferred method of reasoning for most criminal investigations. Inductive or deductive?
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Give your opinion as to the most preferred method of reasoning for most criminal investigations. Inductive or deductive? Why? Give an example to illustrate and support your answer.
Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social corporate responsibility.
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Global Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
A common debate in ethics is universalism versus relativism of ethics and moral codes.
A frequently asked question is “Does a universal moral code exist regardless of an individual’s culture?” As organizations are becoming increasingly global, and understanding of universalism versus relativism of culture ethics is important.
Compare and contrast universalism and relativism.
Evaluate how universalism and relativism affect global social corporate responsibility.
Describe how the title of a company’s ethics document affects your attitude about the content?.
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What’s in a Name of an Ethics Code? in Chapter 9, then answer these following questions from the text:
Describe how the title of a company’s ethics document affects your attitude about the content?. Do you find one title more attractive than another?
Describe the message that the title “code of conduct” conveys?. Does it reflect the purpose of the document to provide employee guidance on expected conduct?
Propose creative titles for ethics codes for a pharmaceutical company and a restaurant.
Identify two other company ethics documents and share the titles of their ethics documents (consider your own organization or one that you are familiar with for this question).
Evaluate mechanisms for obtaining advice on ethical issues and reporting ethical misconduct.
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Learning Outcomes
After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
• Explain how an organization can structure and manage an ethics program.
• Develop a code of conduct that articulates standards to company stakeholders.
• Create an ethics training and communications plan.
• Evaluate mechanisms for obtaining advice on ethical issues and reporting ethical misconduct.
• Design an effective monitoring and auditing system.
Determine the imports and exports in which your company engages.
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Managerial Economics
In this assignment, you will apply information learned about global trade and exchange rates by applying strategies your chosen company (APPLE, INC.) can use to increase revenue and profitability.
Consider if your company (APPLE, INC.) does business abroad or if it has foreign customers. What strategies can the company use to minimize costs and maximize revenue?
Instructions
Using the company you have chosen (APPLE, INC.) for analysis in this class:
Determine the imports and exports in which your company engages.
Does your company import goods to sell to US consumers?
Does your company manufacture in the US?
Will the value of the dollar hurt or help your company?
Does your company engage in unethical labor practices abroad or has it outsourced jobs to other countries? Does the ethics of what they do hurt the company?
Using your research, forecast what impact this information will have on your company and what strategies they should employ to maximize revenue and profit.
Combine this information with the previous information on the following topics:
Consumer demand
Elasticity
Market structure
Product pricing
Cost structure
Impact of macroeconomic factors
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What William Morris means by useful work and useless toil, and why he thinks the latter is “mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil”
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What do William Morris means by useful work and useless toil, and why do he thinks the latter is “mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil”
Demonstrate an enhanced capacity for engaging diverse stakeholders in creative problem solving and engage in critical thinking.
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Communicate effectively
Define and apply the theoretical frameworks in conflict engagement and different processes (e.g. negotiation, facilitation, mediation, civic engagement)
Demonstrate core competencies and practical skills for effectively understanding and engaging in conflict situations in a productive and constructive manner
Demonstrate an enhanced capacity for engaging diverse stakeholders in creative problem solving and engage in critical thinking
Practice reflective professional development in alignment with Ignatian values
Effectively apply technology to conflict engagement processes
Collaborate effectively with other individuals and design conflict engagement processes across diverse groups of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, and sexual orientation
