Category: Business ethics

Interoffice Memos and the Related Ethics

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You have just been appointed to head up the committee to plan the upcoming holiday party for your company, which employs around three hundred people. Susan, Mark, John, and Kathy have also been appointed to this committee. You have worked with Susan before and know that she will be a great worker. You have met Mark and Kathy, but do not know much about them. Unfortunately, you have heard that John can be difficult to work with. At any rate, you are really excited about planning this party and know that leading this committee will be a great opportunity to show your leadership skills.

Based on this scenario and your understanding of how to write internal e-mails, respond to the following:

*Create an e-mail draft you want to send to your committee members about an initial meeting to discuss the party.
*In the e-mail, include any information you think is appropriate to get everyone excited and on board to make this the best holiday party ever.

*Then, respond to any two of the following:

*As you developed this e-mail, what did you consider including in the message?
*Why did you feel that was important to include?

*Were there any topics that you decided would be best not to include in this message?
*What were they and why did you choose not to include them?
*Were you concerned about how formal or informal this e-mail needed to be? Why?
*Is it ethical to include blind carbon copies (Bcc) in business e-mails?

  • Give reasons for your agreement or disagreement.
    *The information you have heard about John being difficult to work with has you concerned.
  • Do you plan to communicate with him before the initial meeting? If yes, what method will you use to communicate with him? If no, why not?.
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Work and Wealth Inequality.

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1. Coates discuss Work and Wealth Inequality. Outline 2 things that have impacted people’s ability to work and acquire wealth. How does Bonilla-Silva, Ch. 5 “I didn’t get that job because of a black man”: color-blind racism’s racial stories complicate the truth and what Coates discuss is the real problem behind work and wealth inequality. What happens according to Carol Anderson as a result of not understanding the inequalities perpetuated in the social structure based on white supremacy? What is the connection between income and wealth inequality and education? According to lecture and your readings, how has the educational system operated in the United States? Briefly explain what Tim Wise, 60 Minutes: Tracking, and Walkout reveal about the educational system? How can the problems uncovered be redressed to make critical/analytical thinkers in this society and world?

 

Work and Wealth Inequality.

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1. Coates discuss Work and Wealth Inequality. Outline 2 things that have impacted people’s ability to work and acquire wealth. How does Bonilla-Silva, Ch. 5 “I didn’t get that job because of a black man”: color-blind racism’s racial stories complicate the truth and what Coates discuss is the real problem behind work and wealth inequality. What happens according to Carol Anderson as a result of not understanding the inequalities perpetuated in the social structure based on white supremacy? What is the connection between income and wealth inequality and education? According to lecture and your readings, how has the educational system operated in the United States? Briefly explain what Tim Wise, 60 Minutes: Tracking, and Walkout reveal about the educational system? How can the problems uncovered be redressed to make critical/analytical thinkers in this society and world?

 

Effective management skills and practices in diverse, distributed, and collaborative work environments

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Scenario
Imagine you are a new manager at the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The company has grown from a small, local pet-supply company into a large organization with locations in Manchester, New Hampshire and Denver, Colorado. It also employs remote staff. The manager you are replacing was with the team for two years and left on negative terms, which exacerbated an already concerning team culture.
You have been asked to present a management plan that addresses identified areas of concern, rebuilds the team’s culture, and aligns organizational practices to leadership.
Leadership has provided you with a management brief that outlines the key pieces of information you will need in order to make informed recommendations.
Directions
Use course resources and the information provided in the Project One Management Brief (located in the Supporting Materials section) to develop recommendations that will meet the needs of your new team and align with your organization’s mission, vision, culture statement, and goals.
Use the Presentation Template to create presentation slides that highlight key pieces of information, and use the Speaker Notes Template to outline what you would say when presenting your recommendations in a future meeting with leadership. Both templates are located in the What to Submit section.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Team Management
1. Leadership and Management: Describe leadership and management practices that you feel would be best suited to manage the team. Explain why you believe these practices are in alignment with the organization’s mission, culture, and goals, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
2. Followership: Explain how you would leverage your strengths as a leader to strengthen the team’s effectiveness and culture. Also explain how your strengths could be used to develop followership within your team.
3. Decision-Making Models: Describe decision-making models that you believe will be the most effective for the team and management approach and their alignment with the organization, as well as how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
4. Emotional Intelligence: Describe considerations for ensuring your management practices are emotionally intelligent and inclusive of diverse perspectives, needs, and roles within your team. Explain why you believe they are in alignment with the organization and how they would be effective in improving the team’s culture.
2. Communication and Collaboration Across Functions
1. Forms and Functions: Explain how the various forms and functions of the organization impact the team; also explain how the team impacts the various forms and functions across the organization.

 

Relationship between the state, the market and organizations

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Consider the relationship between the state, the market and organizations in the creation of social policies and how different economic contexts (capitalism, socialist economy, mixed economy, neoliberalism and political economy) influence the creation of social policies and Social Work practice and service delivery.

 

 

Quality tools used on a project in terms of quality.

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write a 2 to 3 pages in which you describe the quality tools used on a project in terms of quality. Then, select which tool is more appropriate for your project.

Instructions:

Include at least (2) in-text citations from (2) separate sources for the research that supports your proposal. Use concepts, theories, and evidence from the provided reading and course content to help justify your decisions.

 

 

Personal vision, mission, values and ethics, social accountability

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n your initial post to this discussion, complete the following:

Provide a short description of your personal vision, mission, values and ethics, social accountability, and stewardship values related to the health care field you are in or will be entering.
Review the NCHL Health Leadership Competency Model on page 32 of your New Leadership for Today’s Health Care Professionals: Concepts and Cases text. On the basis of this model, list five specific competencies that highlight your strengths. Describe how these competencies can be used to improve organizational outcomes.
Choose an organization to study. You may use the organization for which you work, an organization related to your field, or one you may be interested in working for in the future. Conduct research to find the organization’s vision, mission, values and ethics codes, social accountability and stewardship values, and governance models used. Identify the organization and include the information you discovered in your research in your initial post as well.
Response Guidelines
Respond to the posts of other learners according to the Faculty Expectations Response Guidelines. From the perspective of a hiring team member of your fellow learners’ chosen organization, how well do the learners’ vision, mission, and strengths match the vision, mission, and needs of the organization? What repercussions could occur in the case of a mismatch? What are some positive outcomes related to having the vision and mission in alignment?

A business issue with ethical implications.

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Examine a business issue of your choosing that has ethical implications.

For example, research the arguments (both for and against) regarding advertising to children, paying a living wage, requiring union membership, or selling tobacco.
Research and present the leading opinions and comment on the validity of the arguments. Which side is more compelling? Why?

 

 

 

Ethics In Innovation Evaluation

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Assume you decided to continue with the development of the innovation you evaluated in Week 4. Research and evaluate the external environment related to the product or process you selected.

Assignment Deliverable
Write 350- to 700-word evaluation of ethics in innovation and product or process development. You will use some of this information in your Week 6 assignment. Consider the following questions to help guide your evaluation:

Who is the intended market for the product or process?
What is important to the intended market?
What ethical considerations (e.g., sustainability, environmental impact, social consciousness) must be addressed in the development of this product or process? How might ethical considerations change over time? How can these be anticipated and applied to the product or process development?
How should the ethical considerations you considered influence product or process development?

 

 

Risk management in minimizing the rising costs of technology

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What have researchers learned about the role of risk management in minimizing the rising costs of technology? Technology costs have significantly risen over the last few years with the costs affecting different features from servers to IT services. The average IT expenditure has gone up across all industries. The impetus is on assessing the contribution that risk management has to address the high costs associated with technology.