Code of Ethics Reports Samples For Students

Al Jazeera

Introduction
Emerged in 1996 Al Jazeera is located in Qatar meaning (“the peninsula,” or “the island”). The firm emerged after the new Emir of Qatar Shaykh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani bought the Arabic TV division of the Broadcasting Corporation News Service (BBC) (Aljazeera, 2012). Under that period, BBC had been in endless efforts towards developing an all Arabic television station by pursuing an acquisition with a state Saudi owned Orbit Radio and Television Service with no success. This was based on the failure of the two organizations to agree on some of the issues attached to the new ...

Report

The term known as "Code of ethics" explains the rules and regulations that are formulated within an organization or team.As per Thomas Edison , "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
The term ethical code encompasses different parameter and may be elaborated as “A guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity. A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ...

Vision, Mission, and Ethics in Organizations

Vision, Mission, and Ethics in Organizations

Introduction

Individuals, partners, or groups of people establish new business entities for various purposes. The purposes depend on the interests of the founders or incorporators, as well as various factors that would ensure the success of the business endeavor. During the conceptualization stage, the proprietors would usually define vision as well as mission statements, including code of ethics that would provide the direction that the organization intends to achieve. The current report hereby aims to present the importance of a code of ethics, as well as the mission and vision statements when starting a ...

MEMO

The manager of the Quality Assurance Department has brought to my attention a fault in one of our toys. A routine test revealed traces of lead in the whistles, which are part of the elementary package, destined for shipment at the end of the week. This is an issue of considerable concern because of the potential risks it presents to our target users and the cost implications of altering the shipment plans.

The memo from the Quality assurance manager revealed that there were traces of lead in the metallic whistles, which were above the allowable levels in the USA for ...

Table of Contents

Introduction
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Environmental considerations
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Ethical leadership and recommendations
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Sustainability consideration and recommendations
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Legal and Regulatory Considerations and recommendations
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Conclusion
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References
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The following paper is based on a company called D-mac Solutions, a company that deals with home-based cleaning agents. D-mac is a multi-million dollar, leading electronic company, having grown from its inception in Taegu, Korea in the year 1938. It started off as a small business, but now it has grown while specializing in cleaning-agents products such as home-based products. These products ...

Introduction

JPMorgan Chase Bank was opened in 1799 as the Bank of Manhattan. Currently, the bank has spread its operations in almost all the corners of the world (85 countries to be specific) and employs a staff of approximately 260,965. It has more than five thousand one hundred branches and sixteen thousand one hundred ATMs nationwide. Chase currently has $2.509 trillion assets.
JPMorgan Chase Bank is one of the oldest, biggest and most popular financial institutions all over the world. Its legacy dates back to the year 1799 when the earliest predecessor of the bank was chartered in the ...

Introduction

Ethics are very vital to the smooth running and maintenance of a great image of a company to the customers and other stakeholders. This means that ethics have to be incorporated into the culture and running of an organization so as to improve the relationship between various interested parties in the company. The involvement of ethics, therefore, guarantees the connection of the employees to each other, the company to the customers and the larger society. This means that the absence or a lapse in the ethics of the organization can lead chaos in the general running of the organization.
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Introduction

Nike Inc is a corporation that was founded on Jan 25, 1964 in the county of Washington. It is a corporation that was founded in the United States of America by a Phil Knight. At the time of its inception Phil was a track athlete at University of Oregon. The company commenced operations as a distributor of shoes for a Japanese company. Original the organisation started operating under the brand Blue Ribbon Sports which was later changed to Nike Inc, on May 30th, 1978. The name Nike originates from the Greek goddess of victory. Presently the company specialises in the production of sports equipment and ...

In the past few decades, homebuilding industry has been highly fragmented, with various builders delivering diverse new homes every year. Recently, the industry has undergone rapid transformation and consolidation to address the new demands in the market. Pulte Homes is one of the top companies in the homebuilders industry in America specializing particularly in building homes as well as residential community development. According to National Association of Homebuilders (2010), Pulte Homes is a top 500 company in the list of the key American public corporations based on their contributions to the American economy. It is the focus of this ...

Managerial Accountant

With regards to my request for a Managerial Accountant, I would like to explain why I sincerely believe that there is a need to hire another one, who will focus on the internal accounting aspects of our company. First of all, allow me to enlighten you on the objectives and characteristics of an internal accounting system. “The main objective of an internal managerial accounting system is to provide information to managers so they can make sound decisions”. The internal managerial accounting system plays a significant role in the planning and budgeting functions because there is a factual basis for ...

A Case on Defective Chips

Abstract
Maintaining a high level of integrity is one of the hardest parts of becoming a professional in the engineering field because there are literally a lot of avenues where one can make the mistake of intentionally or not intentionally compromising professional integrity and ethics for the sake of profit maximization. The objective of this paper is to discuss a case about a plant quality control manager choosing to a small percentage of defective electronic chips in the market instead of repairing or simply discarding them. After studying the different possible courses of action, that the plant quality control manager could have taken, it ...

Introduction

Bank of America is one of the best managed institutions in the world that provides a variety of financial services to the customers. It deals with different types of customers such as corporations, the government, and individuals, small, middle and large sized businesses. The bank serves over 40 countries which show that it is a well established institution in the international market. Some of the services it provides include accounts deposits, financial advice, credit and debit card services, checking accounts and lending facilities in sectors such as real estate investment. The bank provides these services with the application of modern technology ...

Change management refers to the approach that a manager, an organization or an individual uses to shift from one organizational state to another (Gans 2011). Change is inevitable, and changes always occur in various organizations. The prime concern for organizations, when it comes to organizational changes, is how well the stakeholders will adapt to change. Adaptation, control and effecting change are the most crucial aspects of change management. The main goal of change management is usually to reduce any negative effect of such change on the organization and employees through control of organizational change efforts (Gans 2011). Organizations have realized ...

Ethical Dilemmas of a Human Resource Manager

Introduction

Undeniably, human resource forms part of one of the most significant resources in an organization. Therefore, based on this claim, it can be asserted that human resource management is one of the cornerstones of an organization. In most cases, the major functions of human resource management are to recruit, manage as well as giving directions to the workforce in an organization. As such, the profession of human resource management lately has become more valuable in most organizations in generation, and more specifically in the corporate world. However, like any other professions, there are various challenges that are associated ...

Ethics refer to the accepted code of conduct in business operations and partnerships. They are the set rules and regulations that govern a business and the corporation itself. The ethics guidelines dictate the manner in which every partner in the firm contributes to the overall success of the business. Code of ethics demands several concepts.
As the CEO of this company, the joint-partnership with the People's Liberation could be so unethical in businesses. Business ran by the military could violate the professional code of ethics as military leaders and influential people in the government could do anything in their ...

Ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals

Industry placement gave me a great opportunity to learn many things. During the time I spent in the industry placement, I learned how theory is translated into practice. In school, we learn many concepts in various subjects. Sometimes it is very hard to imagine how the concepts apply in practice. The placement offered me a chance to apply the engineering concepts we learned in class. I practically applied basic science and engineering fundamentals in making judgments regarding the specific tasks I was given to handle. I also understood that in some instances there is a slight difference between theoretical ...

Summary of selected Shadow Experience

For the record, I was not expecting to learn a lot of things about sales, marketing, and merchandising strategies in this shadow experience. The opposite of what I was expecting happened because I, in fact learned a lot, particularly in the field of economics, marketing, and merchandising. In this sales call strategy report, I will discuss the different things that I learned from a real-life sales person working for the Ocean Marine Yacht Club in Hallandale. The line of product and or service being offered is directly related to properties and real estate. The first time I came into the venue of ...

The History of Al Jazeera

The shutting down of BBC’s Arabic language television station instigated the initiation of the Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) on November 1, 1996 (Allied Media Corp). The AJA was set to achieve strong ideals, because its predecessor was closed within a mere two years, as the Saudi Arabian government repressed the truth about political and social events in its nation—the BBC channel had prepared an explicit report on executions and major dissenting ideas (Allied Media Corp). Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa’s loan of 137 million USD upheld the AJA for the first five years, but the channel has ...

With workplace bullying becoming a growing concern in ensuring a safe and healthy workplace environment, this paper proposes a campaign to promote workplace health and safety against workplace bullying.

Workplace bullying is a personalized and repeated attack on one colleague by another colleague, which results in the victim being socially excluded, losing their job, or becoming physically and mentally unhealthy. Research shows that workplace bullying occurs due to personality differences, economic and social trends, diversity, workplace competition, rewards for aggressive behavior, stressful work conditions, and organizational culture.

In this light, a campaign to address workplace bullying is important as researchers show that a healthy and ...

Law and ethics in healthcare

In the health care industry, legal and ethical questions are subjective because everyone has a different perception on what is right. However, health care practitioners have to handle situations that impact on their profession because of the legal and ethical issues. The health care industry does not have a set of clearly stated legal and ethical guidelines because no medical practitioner wants to be held responsible for anything that goes wrong in the practice (Hall, et al. 2007). Most of the procedures carried out by the medical practitioners are risky and may be fatal. However, sometimes health practitioners are careless in ...

Introduction

A code of conduct is a document that sets out a collection of rules, social norms, and responsibilities that an individual or any party should follow as a part of an existing organization. In some cases, they may also refer to and cover areas such as the principles, values, and standards that an individual should use as a guide when making actions and decisions when working within an organization. Following an organization’s code of conduct often has two main goals. The first one is to keep the stakeholders satisfied by ensuring that all actions and decisions that are ...

Professional advocacy is the keystone of nursing. Nurses advocate for sufferers and profession. Nurse’s encouragement is aggravated by ethical and righteous principles that manipulate the policies by demanding and disagreeing within opinionated, financial, and societal systems.
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners provides approved, independent clinicians that focus on managing physical and mental conditions of patients and prevention of fatal disease. As highly developed practice registered nurses NPs repeatedly are responsible for taking care of those who are suffering from different deadly diseases. The Nurses Practitioners Association train their nurses to specialize in treating patients who are suffering ...

As requested, I have looked into the tendency to overbill in law firms and sole practitioner offices in the United States. I have looked into how these tendencies can endanger any prospective law firm, including our own. According to my findings, the legal profession requires many reforms in order to comply with Rule 1.5 of the Model Rules and to still be able to generate a viable profit through billable hours, fixed rates or contingency fees.

Analysis of Billing Issues Within the Legal Profession

In recent years, the legal industry within the United States has undergone a major transformation. In fact, since the economy crashed in 2008, ...

REPORT EVALUATING THE ETHICAL CLAIMS OF MCDONALD’S

Abstract
Ethical conduct is very important for any company which aspires to succeed in its business operations. It promotes the image and reputation of the company in the market. McDonalds being one of the key companies in the fast food industry is subject to ethical misconduct issues that affect its business operations. Although the company puts more efforts in promoting social responsibility for all the communities where it operates its business, it has many issues that go against the will of the community. This paper clearly shows that McDonalds is subject to ethical claims by its employees due to ...

Introduction

Engineering is the act of recognizing a problem, formulating the ideas to solve it and implementing the proposed solution. Soon, the engineers will be required to employ new tools and technologies at the same time incorporating social, economic perspective in problem-solving. The different engineering professionals need to work together as a team to achieve the desired goals. Most of the problems are also becoming more and more complicated, and this needs the engineers to widen their scale beyond the technical aspect.
The engineers are expected to work and socialize by asking questions concerning other engineering professions and non-engineering professions ...

Executive Summary

The employers must consider the employment laws that protect the rights and freedom of the employees in and outside the workplace. In this case scenario, as an HR consultant, one needs to identify the organizational as well as an ethical code of conduct. Analyzing the current social media policy of the organization, necessary laws, legislations and regulations can be presented to provide a logical argument in favor of the plaintiff. Furthermore, the paper will discuss the importance of effective human resource social media policy to tackle disciplinary breach of conducts. Meanwhile, the offensive post of Tolu can be identified ...

Introduction

Project management engineers face various ethical dilemmas in every single project they undertake. Ethics may be defined as that which is good and just not just for an individual but also for the society at large (Jonasson & Ingason, 2013). The reality of these ethical dilemmas exists in almost all the phases of a project. The specific phases that a project undergoes include: planning, design, construction and operation (Oberlender, 2000). The project design phase is one of the most important phases of any project; from it, the direction which a project should take is drawn. The design stage sets project ...

A few decades ago the world entered into the era of computer technologies and information flow that are available for the majority of the population. Those things that were considered unique and rare became common and are used by everyone. Therefore, this provoked high demand for workers of the information technology sector who are responsible for creation of novelty and further development. However, computer use is subject to ethical rules, violation of which is punished by the law of all the developed and developing countries.
Computer ethics is defined as “any research activity that touches on right and ...

Business Ethics and Sustainability

Report on Sustainability Issues Affecting Institutional
Investors, Within the Australian and global Markets

Executive Summary 3

Introduction 4
Stakeholder’s Approach Theory 4-5
Major Stakeholders 5
Impact of the Incident to the Organization 6-7
Further Discussion 7-9
Ethical Theories behind the Incident 9
SBS Strengths: Ethics in Leadership and Organizational Culture 10-12
Recommendation/Conclusion 12 -14

References 15

Executive Summary
This case study pertains to the organization called SBS, short for Special Broadcasting Service. It provides multi-cultural programs on radio and television. The person who was interviewed for this case report was from SBS Radio. His ...

Introduction

For the purpose of analyzing the governance structure of a business in New Zealand, Mighty River Power has been chosen. Mighty River Power is a New-Zealand headquartered electricity generation company, which was formed in the year 1999 after splitting from the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand. On May 2013, the firm was partially privatized by the government, with the government retaining 51.78% stake and the remaining 48.22% of the stake held by private investors. They generate electricity in a number of ways; which also includes hydroelectric power and geothermal plants located in various parts of the country. They are a major source of ...

Introduction

The aim of this assignment would be to describe the assignment along with its primary stakeholders. The company that is taken into consideration for this assignment is Ford; the most prominent name in the automobile industry. To gain insight regarding the company and its processes, the vision and mission statement would be analyzed and described. Moreover, the company’s code of ethics would also be evaluated to gain relevant knowledge regarding the organization and how it seeks to operate in the internal and external environment.
The main theme of the study would be to analyze the most prominent ...