Monday, 16 April 2012

Chapter 1 case study


Questions to Consider

1. Which issue is more disconcerting-the fact that a board member leaked confidential information about the firm or the tactics used to investigate the leak? Defend your position.

Answer:

The more disconcerting is that there was one a board member has to leak their information about the HP in the news media. To have confidential issue's about the company to have an impact on its share price. That why they will hired an investigator to solve the problem.

2. Can the use of pretexting to gain information ever be justified? Is it considered legal under any circumstances?

Answer:

I think pretexting is illegal, because if you use this you can access to telephone records and targeted individuals Social Security Numbers to impersonate the calls of others through Phone Company to have a private records on it.

Discussion Questions

1. The are many ethical issues about which people hold very strong opinions-abortions, gun control and the death penalty to name a few if you were a team member on a project with someone whom you knew held an opinion different from yours on one of these issues would it affect your ability to work with this person? Why or why not? 

Answer:


For me if i have a team member on a project this is not effect of my ability to work of that person, because we have own opinions about any issues we respect each other we suggest each other to make a solutions about that particular issues has been discuss.

2. What do you think are the most important factors that helped you define your own personal code of ethics?

Answer:


For me Codes of Ethics is important, because if we have a code ethics we highlights a organization key issues and identifies the value and principles in decision making. And also to guide any employee's actions to abide by t law to follow the regulations and behave in an ethical manner.


3. Do you think that ethics in business is improving or getting worse? Defend your position.

Answer:

For ethics in business improving, because the risk associated with in a appropriate behavior have increased in their likelihood and to helping the organization to create more environment to make good of the community.

4. The ethics resource center identified five characteristics of a successful ethics program suggest a sixth characteristic, and defend your choice.

Answer:

For me I suggest that the employees are doing their best to make the company better. I suggest this characteristics to know that all employees are willing to make the company develop if they handle there sections well-being responsible to your legal actions. 


5. Which incident has a higher negative impact on a organization-an unethical act performed by an hourly worker or the same act performed by senior manager of the organization? Explain your answer fully. should the hourly worker be treated differently than the senior manager who committed the unethical act? Why or why not?

Answer:


For me both unethical incident has both a higher impact on an organizations, even they are not the same position they also commit a mistakes then if that the case they need to treated fair, because there are the same workers on the organization.

6. It is a common and acceptable practice for managers to hold people accountable to meet "stretch" goals, quotas, and budgets. How can this be done in a way that does not encourage unethical behavior on the part of employees.

Answer:

For me if the people accountable to meet "stretch" goals, quotas and budgets. This will be done if the employees will concentrate their work also of the behavior to be made their goals, quotas and the budgets handle well.

7. Is every action that is legal also ethical? Can you describe an action that is legal but ethically wrong? is every ethical action also legal? is the law, not ethics, the only guide that business managers need to consider? Explain.
Answer:

No, because there are sometimes an unethical part on every legal actions. sample of a legal but ethically wrong is you working on a private company and you are a programmer, your created programs are signed by the company and must be within the company only and that is legal. The ethically wrong doing is sharing your company's programs to other company and that us against ethics and it is illegal. They both have to consider the law and ethics, because for example company has laws, and ethics is barely needed to determine if the law is against ethics.


8. Do you think it is easier to establish an ethical work environment in a nonprofit organization? Why or why not?

Answer:

For me to establish an ethical work in environment i think it can help in nonprofit organization to them develop and to improve their company as well to make a highlight of a organization.

9. Think chapter discuss the four approaches to dealing with moral issues. identify and briefly summarize each one. Do you believe one perspective is better then others? if so, which one and why?

Answer:



Discussion Questions

1.     CA executives involved the accounting scandals were not accused of reporting bogus contracts or hiding major problems in business the contracts that were backdated were real sales agreements was this really a crime? should the individuals have been punished so harshly?


Answer:

For me just a business this is not a crime it's just a business you break the rules of your company you will accept sequences happen to you.


2.     In December 2004, CA appointed Patrick J. Gnazzo as a senior chief compliance officer to demonstrate to the government and shareholders that the firm would take measures to operate ethically, Gnazzo served in this role at United Technologies for 10 years and had been a member of the board directors of the ethics Offices Association .Gnazzo reported to a new executive vice president and a general counsel at CA as well as the board's Compliance committee. Outline some of the Actions Gnazzo might have been taken in his first six months on the job


3.     John Swainson, a 26-year veteran of IBM, joined CA in November 2004 as CEO and President his first few months with the firm were rough- major customers threatened to dumb the firm some products were behind schedule and were of poor quality; executives had to be fired for breaking company rules; accountants continued to find past mistakes; and many newly hired executives had to be brought on board. what sort leadership could he have demonstrated to show that he was determined to avoid future scandals at CA?


4.     CA has been hit with numerous scandals since the late 1990's. these scandals raise questions about how successful the firm might have been if not for the amount of time its executives had to spend on this distractions. compare the revenue growth and stock price of CA to that of some of its competitors over the period 2004-2008 (be sure to use CA's corrected figures!) can you detect any impact of these scandals on CA's performance? what else might explain the difference in performance?



Discussion Questions
1. Identify at least two other companies that manage their suppliers in a manner similar to Dell computers. Do these companies have anything in common with Dell?

Answer:

The two companies that are similar to Dell Computers are the Hardcore Computer Inc. this company custom designs and manufactures liquid blade servers, professional workstations and desktop computers. These systems have a patented liquid submersion cooling technology to remove the main barrier of electronic performance heat. Hardcore Computer Inc. originally competed with the luxury PC gaming niche companies such as alien are, Falcon Northwest and MAINGEAR. However, with the launch of their LIquid Blade and Detonator line, the company is poised to complete with the big OEMs such as Dell, HP, Acer Inc. and Apple Inc. second, elite group Computer Systems Co. It is the fifth largest PC motherboard manufacturer in the world with production reaching 24 million units in 2002.

2. Can you identify any disadvantages for dell in taking the approach to managing suppliers?



Answer:




One of the disadvantages is their payment system, and the way pressures their suppliers. But I understand why they pressure their supplier for the good of their company, to catch the delivery on time. But they should pay suppliers in 30 days, not into 36 days, because they collecting payments from the customer ones they receives the order. But it's big company for them it's easy to replace or to find new suppliers.

3. Do you think that this approach to managing suppliers is unethical, or is it acceptable and ethical? Explain your reasoning.

Answer:

I think their approach to managing suppliers is ethical, because benefits it is started their that of carrying a minimal amount of inventory. When building a business, first step you make your own strategy that different from other companies, since their lots company build there are some competitions happen. But deals how you value the customer and supplier in good manner.

4. Would you recommend any changes to the way Dell manages suppliers? Defend your position.

Answer:

I recommend that they must do better manages in their company and also their supplier to make their company stronger if they have a professional to manage on it. And to me strategy's to make a necessary decision to help the company better.


Discussion Questions

1. Discuss how a CIO might handle Schrage's Scenarios using the suggested process for ethical decision making presented in this chapter.

Answer:


The CIO handle Schrage's scenarios by using an orientation to show them how to make decision right to have tough decision in ethical way, because if we not orient well our people they will make decision not according to plan the company well down.

2. Discuss e possible short-term losses and long-term gains in implementing ethical solutions for each of Schrage's scenarios.

Answer:


On my own understanding short-term losses their standards for the business they small quantity. If the client not agree of their process, because they are not doing the right thing to do they not followed of any rules in the company.


3. Do you think that this approach to managing suppliers is unethical, or is it acceptable and ethical? Explain your reasoning.

Answer:


I suggest No, because if you gain a lot on your company or business in a way that is not ethical and it might be illegal or against the law of ethics they can benefit something but it is not the right process of gaining financial benefits, ethics is more important, because i believe if a company has ethics it financially benefits a lot.



















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