Questions:
1.Your task today is to describe two (2) companies and their approaches to Ethics, Social Accounting and Community Projection.
a.Which of these 2 companies do you believe is a serious Ethical proponent
b.Which of these 2 companies do you believe is not.
c.Give your reasons why and endorse these thoughts and positions with examples and instances which validate your thoughts and answers
2.Imagine you are presenting your case to the board of your company regarding their future investment strategy. What will be your focus and why?
3.Eddie Obeid was a NSW Parliament MP between 1991 and 2011 representing the Australian Labor Party.
A series of three investigative hearings by the Independent Commission Against Corruption between 2012 and 2014 into the conduct of Obeid and others found that Obeid acted in a corrupt manner in relation to cafe leases at Circular Quay and that he misused his position as a Member of Parliament to benefit his family’s financial interests in both Direct Health Solutions and in Water Licences over the family's Bylong Valley farm.
Another Parliamentary MP, Ian McDonald was found guilty of assisting Obeid in another attempted corruption exercise, this time in relation to coal mining licences for the above Obeid family property at Bylong Valley.
Both MP’s were sentenced to “Custodial” sentences in jail.
SLJ Question to be answered :-
How do you feel about elected members of Parliament or Government Employees betraying your trust given to them? Why?
Please use Kant’s Theory in rationalising your answer.
4.Yesterday the Federal Minister for Science and Industry resigned due to accepting an anonymous donation to help pay for a recent Court case involving himself and the ABC. Some people it is incorrect for a Public official to accept this form of support. Using Normative Theories, explain your point of view about this.Was he right or wrong to accept the donation?What harm, if any, has he done to those around him?
5.How should business leaders consider and deal with conflicts of interest? What do you believe is the connection between sustainability and conflicts of interest?
6.Why do you believe the growth in the number, power and influence of CSOs has occurred? Do you believe this influence growth has been deliberate or demanded by interested parties?
7.Why do people allow the government to run their lives?
8.Wages for CEO’s appear to know no bound and are increasing beyond popular reasoning.
Recently Mary Barra became the first women CEO of the very large car manufacturer, General Motors.
Her basic compensation package commences at US $23.7m plus incentives.
The average wage in the USA is less than $45,000.
Is Mary Barra 525 times better than the average person?
Yes/No. What are your reasons?Why?
Nominate an international company that displays similar behaviour and why did you nominate them?
