Essays on Birsch

Introduction

According to Trevino & Nelson (2011, p. 35), fraud does not happen as a coincidence. To be specific, fraud in organizations is usually premeditated and has to happen in the right conditions and members of the organization in authority often set these conditions. As such, identifying the root causes of fraud, which is called fraud deterrence, should be one of the priorities of corporate governance. Since fraud has been a common menace in the history of organizational management, various strategies, government regulations, and acts have been developed to prevent the occurrence of fraud (Giroux, 2013, p. 32). These procedures cover ...

Ford Pinto Case

The Ford Motor Company, under the advice of its vice president Lee Lacocca, in May 1968 set out to introduce a cheaper car in the US in May 1968. In a rush to gain a significant market share, Lee Lacocca put the design and development of the Ford Pinto auto automobile on a schedule of 25 months instead of the normal 43 months taken to , so it would take to get a car from conception to production. Due to this the accelerated production, the Pinto had dangerous design flaws. The Pinto’s gas tank was dangerously placed at the back of the vehicle, and ...

Question 1: Cyberethics as applied ethics

Cyberethics generally is the study of ethical, legitimate, and social aspects surrounding cyber technology. Various ethical issues are widely expected in the field of IT and use of computing machines. This Cyberethics is assumed to be part of applied ethics. This is because cyber ethics analyses concrete ethical issues and concentrates in surveying a particular moral problem relating to use of cybertechnology. This term is far much bigger than the internet ethics since it’s not restricted to use of internet. It’s on wider perspective that it utilizes wide scale of computing and communication expedients. It is also much ...