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Business Ethics Scenarios

Authors: Balassone, Jim
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A series of brief business ethics cases that raise questions on gifts, conflicts of interest, disparagement, and more....
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/business-scenarios.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-29 10:19

Agressive Sales Quotas or Unfair Business Practice?

Authors: Silliman, Jessica
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A new employee in a company selling advertising packages convinces his company to chose customer service over selling inflated advertising packages to small businesses....
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/aggressive-sales.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-03 11:45

The Marketer's Dilemma

Authors: Open University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A marketing manager is offered inside information on a competitor’s marketing plans by a disgruntled employee. The mole however expects something in return....
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.ibe.org.uk/teaching/The%20marketers%20dilemma.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-22 14:48

The Case of the Big Box Retailer

Authors: Nadler, Judy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A revenue shortfall causes a city council to consider the tax benefits from a big-box retailer versus the potential harm to established small businesses....
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/economic_development.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-10 16:00

The Area Manager's Dilemma

Authors: Open University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The case involves a manager who finds himself working with another manager who is unprincipled, devious and a liar. What if anything should he do?...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.ibe.org.uk/userfiles/(im)moral%20management.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-01-22 14:53

United Technologies Corporation: Running a Global Ethics and Compliance Program

Authors: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics ; Stewart, Lisa A.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In July 2003, Pat Gnazzo, vice president of Business Practices for United Technologies Corporation (UTC), sat at his desk in the company’s Hartford, Connecticut, headquarters considering the challenge of integrating 46,000 new empl...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/corporate-ethics/pdf/BRI-1001.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-09-21 15:33

Tidal Community Bank: Reacting to Investor Pressures (A)

Authors: Gentile, Mary C. ; Cote, Joseph A.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a small community bank decides to expand and start branches in a larger local area nearby, the managers of the bank face criticism from the bank's main corporate investor, who believes that the bank should stay small....
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.babson.edu/GVV/Student/4_Individual-Cases-and-Modules/Tidal-Community-Bank_A_S.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-10 15:35

General Contractors : Some Ethical Problems

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Collection of 15 cases that focus on ethical issues often faced by general contractors. These cases cover issues such as professional ethics and politics, competition, relationships with subcontractors, the bidding process, and rel...
Year: 1987
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/publication/General_Contractors.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-16 12:47

Project (RED)

Authors: Hanagan, Nora ; Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Product (RED) encourages private corporations to donate money to public health organizations in developing countries and has raised a great deal of money for Africa, yet the program is not without its critics....
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/ProductRed.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-03-14 16:33

The Successful Side Business

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: How should a student approach his advisor who is too busy building a business to monitor his dissertation? Is it ethical for a professor to use univerisity resources to build a private business? This scenario explores conflicts that...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/ssbus.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-27 16:18

Legal Records Scenario

Authors: Loui, Michael C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When the managing partner of a law firm wants to increase the productivity of the firm's secretarial staff, he hires a computer consulting firm to record email messages sent by the secretarial staff, as well as to monitor the keystr...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/legal-rec.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-27 15:41

Nutritional Foods

Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A company confronts the possibility that its product is causing illness....
Year: 1998
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/nutritional.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-29 14:19

Tainted Donations from Corrupt Companies

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Robert Ladenson ; Keller, David R. ; Cox-White, Becky ; Leever, Martin ; Anestidou, Lida
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a non-profit organization such as a museum or a charity receives donations from a company or individual who is later convicted of fraudulent business practices, should they keep the donation?...
Year: 2003
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Tainted%20Donations%20from%20Corrupt%20Companies.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-10 15:35

Ethical Issues in Company Travel (TI)

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. In this article, the Ethics Office gives some advice on best practices for issues that may come up when tr...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/7615.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-04 12:10

The Case of the Reference Request

Authors: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University ; Balassone, Jim
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A former employee who was fired due to poor quality work, absences, and lateness due to her drinking problem, has given your name as a reference for a job she is applying for at a new company. She desperately needs this job (she is ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/reference.html

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-06-17 16:22

Smokescreen

Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Connolly, Peggy ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As of May 1, 2010, St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, PA no longer hires smokers, citing data proving the negative health effects of smoking and the resulting costs to businesses in rising health care premiums. Not...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Smoke%20Screen.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-14 11:55

Company Resources Used for Personal Benefit (TI)

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. These article discuss issues of using company resources for an employees personal benefit, including the u...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/4736.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-04 12:10

Business Cycles and Employment Practices in a Domestic Garment Company

Authors: Byrne, Keely ; Detert, Jim ; Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are on the management team of a rapidly growing, privately held apparel company that has succeeded by targeting a niche market that will pay more for fashionable styles, making the speed and flexibility of operations more import...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.darden.virginia.edu/corporate-ethics/pdf/BRI-1002A.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-09-21 15:20

Family Ties and Business Ethics

Authors: Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Myers, Gretchen A. ; Funke, Rhiannon D. ; Funke, Michael B. ; Potthast, Adam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Lucy worked for her father's ship-building business while growing up and earned enough money to get her education nautical engineering and the training she needed to get a great job. Lucy loves her current job and her supervisors al...
Year: 2012
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Family%20Ties.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-09-06 13:33

Nail Your Boss

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In November of 1996 the Business Software Alliance, a trade organization, based in Washington, began to conduct an advertising campaign in Manhattan, which involved placing posters at well traveled points with the words "Report Soft...
Year: 1997
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Nail%20Your%20Boss.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-05 16:34

Misrepresentation of a Business Relationship

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center ; National Society of Professional Engineers, Board of Ethical Review
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An engineer brings another engineer to a business meeting without first discussing business conditions with her. Includes references to the NSPE Code of Ethics, and a link to the original case brought before NSPE's Board of Ethical ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://onlineethics.org/cms/14309.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-16 15:56

Controversial Radio Advertising

Authors: Silliman, Jessica
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: An intern with a large radio corporation is asked to sell advertising time to businesses whose target customers do not match the audience of the radio station. She also disagrees with many other aspects of the company's questionable...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/controversial-advertising.html

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-11-03 10:59

Failure to Pay for Day Care

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A day care provider does a favor for a friend,taking care of her friend's daughter and letting her friend pay later for the service. However, when her friend fails to pay up, can the day care provider hold on to an expensive doll th...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Failure%20to%20for%20Day%20Care.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-06 15:14

Sexual Harassment (TI)

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This is a series of articles published by the Ethics Office at Texas Instruments Corporation in the company newsletter TNEWS. This collection of articles discusses the issue of sexual harassment, what kinds of behavior count as sexu...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/sexharass.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-04 12:11

Subliminal Messages Not to Steal

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Some department stores and supermarkets have inserted in their music and tracks the messages "Don't shoplift," or "Don't steal." Studies have shown that stores that use this device have a lower rate of shoplifting than comparable ...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Subliminal.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-03 11:55