Essays on Conflict Of Interest

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Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

Background

Today, the financial industry is more regulated than any other time in the history of economic globalization. However, the lack of fundamental professional behavior, ethics, and compliance raises the important question whether the current financial sector in Australia is destined for an endemic future. The persistent fraud cases in the Australian financial industry paints an impression that behaviors are yet to change even after experiencing the global financial predicament that emanated from the US. The recent ANZ suspected interbank interest rate rigging, CBA’s CommInsure denial of compensation to legitimate claims from terminally ill patients, and the Macquarie Group ...

End of life or palliative care is complex, demanding, and comprises of various ethical and moral issues for both the patients, provider, and family members. Palliative care may involve 3 ethical principles, i.e. beneficence, autonomy and veracity (Houser 2015).

Describe the ways the subjects were vulnerable.

In the article, the author provides an ethical and moral issue on how Josh, a 11-year old boy was not informed and consented for his lymphoma and palliative care. Josh was vulnerable since his parents decided to not disclose the line of treatment services that would be offered to him (Stringer 2013).

Is there any conflict of interest?

In Josh’s case, there is clear conflict ...

ETHICAL VIOLATIONS BY ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

The Law and Order SUV episode Parole Violations is a trip on the dark side of law enforcement. The story is a look at how people in power within the enforcement system, in particular, Parole Officers, can and do use their power to manipulate and control parolees, who are entrusted by the system to their care and direction. Parolees are often struggling to find their way while fighting the stigma of being a convicted criminal. This episode examines some concepts that go against the norm, such as whether to believe the word of a convicted criminal over that of ...

Q1 For the purpose of the paper five additive found in food were chosen. The chosen food additives belong to different types of additives. First picked was corn syrup, which was chosen since it is usually the additive added in soft drinks, which are being consumed in large quantities especially in the United States. The additive belongs to the group of sweeteners. It can be found in processed food, sweets, non-diet drinks, cereals, breads, pastries, candies, cookies, cakes, syrups, crackers, fruits, vegetables, ice creams, meat, salad dressings, sauces, snacks, and soups. The high-fructose corn syrup has been correlated with ...

Williams v Pennsylvania (2016) was brought to the Supreme Court by Williams who was found guilty of murder back in 1984 and sentenced to death because he claimed that the prosecution not only utilized false testimony but withheld evidence that could have led to his exoneration (Supreme Court, 2016). I found this particular case interesting due to its conclusion where the petitioner was ultimately denied his appeal even after his allegations were proven by the PCRA (Supreme Court, 2016) which just goes to show how even if the filer was in the right, the law still refused to rescue ...

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The Lawyer-Client Relationship The lawyer-client relationship should be based on trust and confidentiality. Under no circumstances should a client lie to his or her lawyer as well as under no circumstances should a lawyer incriminate his or her client for telling them the truth. A problem in trust and confidentiality will result to poor lawyer-client relationship, which could significantly impact the outcome of a case. Trust and confidentiality problems arise when the client withholds some information from his lawyer for fear that his lawyer will back out. There are clients, for instance, who are guilty of doing ...

Scenario a

The auditor should not be concerned about the bidding process in this case. The fact that Wright had won 12 of the 21 bids does not imply that the controls on the bidding processes are not effective. Provided the 12 contracts were awarded competitively and that due process was followed, it should not concern the auditor.

Scenario b

This situation should concern the auditor about the company’s controls for the bidding process. Wright won 12 of the 21 bids and in each case, Wright was the last to submit its bid. It raises questions about possible canvassing between the procurement ...

Abstract

This research paper will discuss the different ethical issues within group therapy sessions. A therapist should bear particular ethical standards that are required in group therapy sessions. Importantly, counselors should uphold moral codes that guide the group agenda from the formation to the operational stages of the group. Also, this paper will analyze the distinct traits of individual and group counseling. Group counseling involves one counselor attending several clients simultaneously. On the other hand, individual counseling includes a one on one session between a client and therapist. In group counseling, the members may be shy to share their issues ...

Introduction

In the first part of this assignment I set an objective to analyze the general dynamics and characteristics of the group, I am currently working with. Importantly, I find this experience especially interesting as the group´s profile is radically different from other work teams I used to be part of. Comprised of 6 members with very senior management positions and professional backgrounds, we work as the team of independent specialists with a formal leader of the department, 2 managers and three non-managerial members. At the same time, the team does not have an informally accepted leader or facilitator, ...

International Olympic Committee Ethical Issues

Background One of the most recent scandals occupying the headlines of the international print and social media is the doping scandal, surrounding the Russian Olympic and Paralympic Team and the participation of the athletes in the Olympic Games in Rio this August. The Games have started and it is evident that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) along with Independent Committee and Brazilian Authorities took the decision not to ban the team from participation, causing dual and controversial response from the international community. The organization in a focus of the scandal is the IOC, heavily criticized for the way it ...

Business, Company and Conveyancing Law

Part B Q. 1 Salomon v Salomon & Co. Ltd. (1897) is a landmark case on the incorporation, features, and nature of companies. The case is important in the formation of businesses in some respects. Firstly, the significance of the case with regards to the formation of companies is that it introduced the principle of a company being a separate, autonomous, distinct or independent entity from the owners or even the promoters of the enterprise. This is important in that it shields the owners from any liability that may be incurred on behalf of the company about its creditors. Further, ...

The risks involve in hostage crisis leads to the development of negotiation strategies that will be used based on a given hostage situation. There is a need to understand the motives of the hostage taker as a means to develop an effective and appropriate negotiation approach, in addition to the consideration of the factors that can help diffuse the tense emotional state. However, one among the most important consideration is the establishment of the negotiator and hostage-taker relationship, which often takes considerable time to develop. In this instance, the mental health professional can provide helpful assistance to negotiators in ...

Attribute Standard 1312 issued by the IIA indicates that Internal Audit Departments purporting to follow IIA Standards must have an external assessment “conducted at least once every five years by a qualified, independent reviewer or review team from outside the organization. Two such organizations include World Com and Fannie Mae. The two organizations were in the news owing to various reporting and internal audit practices that may have resulted in their collapse, as is the case of World Com or hefty financial losses for their shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequent to such observations, the objective of this paper is ...

Executive summary

The National Bank of Canada has its headquarters in Montreal, and it is Canada’s sixth largest bank. It was started on 4th May 1859 by the francophone business people in Banque and Ontario. The bank has 2.4 million personal clients and most of its branches in the Canadian provinces. It has many representative offices partnerships and subsidiaries in other countries where it serves both non-Canadian and Canadian customers. The bank’s management structure consists of the board of directors and the office of the president. The bank is upholding a proper governance system and appropriate ethical strategies to ...

The professional standards i.e. International Ethics Standard Board for Accounting (IESBA) enables a company’s auditors to provide tax services and retain their independence. The standards give permission to audit firms to provide non-audit services if the provision of services does not conflict with the independence needs of auditors. The non-audit services are known as permissible non-audit services ranging from professional advice related to transactions, tax services, and advisory services regarding business activities. The tax services include assistance related to tax return preparation, tax calculations to prepare transactions, and planning and resolution of tax disputes. Absence of conflict enables ...

Defining the First Step in Student’ Research Guide to Research

The first step in doing research according to the student’s guide to research is identifying the topic of study under investigation. This step involves the researcher seeking to understand the subject of study or the main issue involved and also gets an overview of the possible relevant sources of information such as books and journals. Moreover, under this step, the student researcher is expected to ask him or herself what they will research about and describe the problem or scope of their research. It is also at this stage that a student doing research in any sociological science ...

QUESTION A

Definition of Credit Default Swaps A CDS is an instrument used to transfer the risk of default or credit exposure between two or more parties (Fabozzi and Kothari, 2008). It protects the lender from the possible loss of default by the borrower. The lender (protection buyer) pays premiums to the CDS seller. In return, the CDS seller guarantees to pay the lender the face value of the loan plus interests due in the intervening period if the borrower defaults.

Cash flows

Annual CDS premium = 4% × 1,000,000 = $40,000 Quarterly payments = 40,000/4 = $10,000 The borrower does not default ...

Vaping vs. Tobacco

Introduction Vaping vs. Tobacco

The financial issue is one of the major areas that are highly debated when discussing vaping and tobacco. Various states have large tracks of a tobacco plantation and that the amount of tobacco sold forms more substantial portion of the country's revenue. Smoking is known to create tremendous wealth, majorly for the government, which has been the leading cause of all conflict of interest. Government revenue is, to a greater percentage, connected to cigarette sales. Tobacco forms a larger part of revenue for huge transnational industries, which results to external factors having a strong influence ...

The opium war which took place in the 19th century was one of the first major defeats of the Chinese government. China had a tremendous amount of wealth which was mostly attributed to the tea trade in the country. Britain had a great demand for this tea, while the country had nothing to offer the Chinese government in return. China was also ignorant to the western revolution and considered the western culture barbaric. China was a traditional country which held strongly to its traditions and culture. While China hoped to keep its culture free of the western culture effect, ...

Introduction

The website presents several clip from the Bureau of Land Management provide information on expected behaviour from public sector employees. There are several examples given about unethical behaviour from public sector employees. This will paper will discuss two stories of Outside business and Bribes.

A Story of Outside Business

The video presents a government official using government facilities and official time for outside business. It is clear that the government employee has an outside business of real estate agent and she uses government property and official time to perform her outside business. The employee shown in the clip uses official time of lunchtime to ...

Rights of the shareholders

While the shareholders are the most important stakeholders of the company, however, very few control the day to day running of the company’s business activities. Therefore, in order to safeguard their interest, the company range multiple rights of the shareholders and provide them the eventual power to influence the company’s decisions. Below we have discussed the rights of the shareholders: a) Right to attend the general meeting and cast their vote All the shareholders of the company have the right to receive notice of the general meeting, including, Annual General Meeting(AGM) and Extraordinary General Meetings(EGM). ...

Roles and Responsibilities of Directors in Corporations

All corporations must have a director. Private companies have one director while public companies have a minimum of two directors. The need for a director is widely justified by the fact that corporations act as artificial legal units which cannot function by themselves. In most instances, they require other people to act on their behalf. According to company law, directors play the important role of managing the company’s affairs on behalf of the owners (Baxt, 2016). According to section 250 CA 2006 of the Company Act, directors include individuals who occupy the director’s position in whatever name. ...

Overview of Legal Research

Interviewing System The three steps for interviewing a client are to obtain an overview of the client’s story, shore up any holes in the client’s story, and further probe the client for more information to develop a case theory. The first step in conducting a quality interview of a client would be to obtain an overview of the facts from the client. This overview should be obtained in chronological order. The client should be asked to start from the beginning of the situation and proceed to the present date. Also, it is important to ask the client ...

The conflict of interest occurs when the director or the manager of the company performs to generate personal gain from the operations of the business. According to the corporate governance codes the conflict of interest happens in every form of business. However, the most important form of business in relation to the conflict of interests is the company because of the involvement of the common public and higher level of funds. Therefore, the corporate governance codes provide the guidelines for the companies to follow to reduce the conflict of interests. (Strier, 2005) The first risky area is the related ...

Question 1 Directors’ Duties

Issue For a business to register as a company it should satisfy the following requirements: a name, one or more shares and shareholders having limited and unlimited liability. Having directors is also a requirement. Once a venture has this, it can go ahead, apply for registration as stated in section 11, and send an application to the registrar. The application must be in a prescribed form and signed by each applicant; this includes the named directors and shareholders. The proposed company’s name and constitution should be included in the application, as stated in section 12. Once the application ...

1. Define and discuss the roles and responsibilities of an ethics committee in a hospital setting. The ethics committee is a multidisciplinary group that is made up of both hospital staff members and members of the local community. This committee, then, serves several different roles, or has multiple responsibilities, related to their position. The first responsibility of an ethics committee is providing education for the public in the community. In doing so, the committee has to communicate both positive and negative elements of the current healthcare systems, so that the public understands the state of healthcare in their area. ...

This situation between Ari and Raymond is surely a common occurrence in the real world of practicing law because it represents the issue of unreasonable fees combined with other issues of a paralegal practicing law with limited supervision from a supervising attorney, (Thompson, K., 2008). What is important to note about this situation is that it shows an attorney and its law firm taking advantage of a client’s emotions and possibly providing him inadequate representation for his upcoming matter. Thus, the most pertinent issue in Ari’s case that should be assessed is whether he is too emotional ...

Where in the World We Might Be Headed Next?

It is almost certain that the world order that it was – when the United States was the only superpower – is now changing. In fact, the profound social change from the initial simple world characterized by democracy and common desirable goals seems to be less dominant. Today, nations are more divided as they lack a particular common drive that is truly an international agenda. Expertise commentaries suggest that there are several possibilities that could happen in the next decade. According to Doug Saunders (2014), the possibilities can be forecasted according to five contemplates scenarios. This paper selects “a New Cold ...

Personal Branding

Personal Branding

The internet bridged connections between people, business, organizations, and countries. It is a key element when it comes to relationships and branding either individually or a group. Professionals are investing most of their time and resources in creating and managing their profile online through social media networks (Thompson, et al., 2008). Hence, the modern day professionalism has a lot more to it than what it was previously. Not only does the online presence cater for the professionalism, but individuals also use the space to promote their personal interest. It is a common trait for an individual to ...

L Brands: Corporate Governance L Brands: Corporate Governance

Overview

L Brands is a world-renowned lingerie, personal care and beauty products company ("About Us," n.d.). Offering flagship brands including, primarily, Victoria's Secret, PINK, Bath & Body Works, La Senza and Henri Bendel, L Brands has U.S., Canada and U.K. as focal operation markets and extends her global presence in around 700 locations by franchised partnerships ("About Us"). The company's central message is personal branding and sexy lifestyle. The business lines, functions and activities, based on brand offerings of L Brands, are reported by specific corporate governance structure and mechanisms detailed below.

The ...

Accounting refers to the activities of recording, summarizing, maintaining and publishing financial statements for public, etc. These activities play a vital role not only for internal users of the information but also for the external users who might raise issues and concerns to the work being carried out. It is essential for the investors to get the correct picture of the business before taking the risk of investing in the venture. The ethical practice also enhances the performances and procedures of the organization. Ethics relate to segregating what is good or bad for the consideration of the moral duties ...

The employer and employee relationship between Don and Rebecca is governed by various statutes but most importantly the Employment Standards Act (Filsinger 2005). Under the Act, an employee can be terminated from their employment under conditions such as: upon dismissal of the employee or when the employer stops employment of the employee included instances of insolvency and bankruptcy of the employer if the employer ‘constructively” dismisses an employee and they (the employee) resigns, as a response to the constructive dismissal, within a reasonable time (Motherselev v. Gulf Canada Resources Ltd).

Facts

Rebecca’s job was, however, terminated without issuance of ...

One of the main particularities of the 21st century trade is online branding. This brand management functions through various Web technologies. Online branding ideas can be attributed to a wide audience in the shortest terms. The branding itself is used by certain techniques and methods that allow bringing to the customer the designed brand and not only to form in his mind the image of the brand’s product, but also to assist him in perceived functional and emotional elements of this product. In this context, online branding helps clients hasten the choices of a product and decision on ...

Facts of the Case

Luke has been working for the company on a project which involves developing a recently purchased land by the company in order to build an entertainment store on the land. Luke believes that as soon as the announcement for this project will be made, the real estate prices in the area will go down. Luke’s brother Owen lives in the neighborhood of the land. Owen recently told Luke that he got an average offer for his house recently. Owen is not sure about the offer and has asked Luke whether he should sell his house or wait for ...

One of the most significant tasks managed by Health Service Administrators is managing the legal and regulatory issues that face healthcare, and health care providers. Leadership is called upon to ensure that these legal premises are followed, in order to protect patients, health care providers, and health agencies alike. Ann Smith, CEO UK Healthcare was tasked to explain some of the leading legal and regulatory issues which impact the delivery and management of healthcare. She indicated that the most prominent issues listed in no particular order, from a legal standpoint, facing health service administrators include the application of HIPPA, ...