Essays on Trevino

Question One.

I work in the food service industry. Some of the means by which we have been able to attain competitive advantage are by ensuring that our restaurant is in an area with less competition but high visibility so that our clientele can easily reach us. We also studied new competition to see which products they were selling and at what price and adjusted our prices accordingly. By adjusting our prices accordingly due to the competition, we compromised on the quality of our product as we the business had to cut short on some ingredients in order to make the ...

during Times of Uncertainty during Times of Uncertainty

Introduction:

Times of uncertainty lead the public to seek both leadership and answers. They need answers, and ways to organize around issues of social significance which have created doubt, and indecision. In essence, they need help understanding the issue at hand and being offered an acceptable frame of reference when they, themselves, do not have the experience to come up with constructive solutions. Often this leadership comes out of the academic community. As such, the purpose of the current essay is to determine in what ways academics can contribute on issues of ...

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 ...

Summary of Business Research

Over the years, financial institutions have faced a lot of risk including financial loss e.g. customer defaulting as well as the channeling of resources in projects or initiatives that make them loose their valuable resources and probably don’t add value to their organization (McNeil, Frey, & Embrechts, 2015). The effects of these risks have made the financial institutions fail to achieve their objectives and decrease in performance as well as maintain their market share. The end results show that the organization is not able to sustain its capabilities. The study is to investigate the effects of risk management on ...

Business ethics provide greater awareness about the important and valuable business activities that can help enhance performance (Malachowski, 2001). The observance of business ethics assist in clarifying the business goals within an organization and the conditions that are essential in achieving them. Ethics draw the line between what are ideal business practices and what are not. Among the benefits of practicing business ethics include wasting the organization's resources on attaining its objectives while avoiding what would naturally be wrong for a business practice. The observance of unethical conduct can hurt the organization itself and may result to negative consequences. ...

Research Paper

Introduction The social world is as complex as the physical world. Due to such complexity, sociologists have made considerable efforts to explain various social phenomena through different sociological theories. One of the major sociological theories is functionalism, which has its origins in the works of Herbert Spencer and Emile Durkheim. The functionalist theory explains how societies survive and maintain social stability. It also explores dysfunctional events like suicide. This paper argues that functionalism can provide a reasonable and accurate explanation of the phenomenon of suicide since social factors, like excessive social cohesion or the lack of it and extreme ...

The living environment shapes who people are. Naturally, in neighborhoods with a negative criminogenic environment, people often go deviant, and, when they do, it often is at a relatively young age. Researchers have gone to great lengths to study the underlying causes of delinquent behavior of young residents. Poverty appears to be one of the principal driving forces of offenders long with income disproportion, albeit to a far lesser extent. The blockade of opportunities or the means to achieve culturally acceptable norms in the society is also an important motivation. While race is not universally found to cause delinquency, ...

Introduction

It is common for an organization to fall into some predicament once in a while. The concept reveals itself by the aspect of organizations having contingency plans that leverage them in the case of an impromptu or ongoing scandals. I have always observed that companies have insurance covers for such incidences. Most of the problems that organizations are likely to encounter include organizational ethical dilemmas. Recently, one of the well-known fast food joint, Chipotle Mexican Grill, alias chipotle. Chipotle encompasses a chain of fast food restaurants. The chain is allegedly accused of breaching the food policy protocol regulations by ...

Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma.

Abstract The ethical decision-making process paper focuses on the ethical guidelines for national and multinational organizations. With the business management and organizational planning and objectives, it is becoming paramount that employee human and labor right be in harmony with every prospectus developed by the firms. Contemporary issues that face employees are being reviewed and addressed such the human rights and labor relations guideline. The paper focus on rights of workers based on the ethical dilemma related to off the clock working. The decisions made at the management level must always ensure that they adhere to professional code of ethics ...

During the 1960s and the 1970s, there was high demand for compact, low cost cars in the US. Ford Motor Company was threatened by stiff competition from Volkswagen Beetle. Consequently, it rushed its then newly designed Ford Pinto into the market with blatant disregard for the safety of its customers. The car became notorious for accidents occasioned by rare-end collisions at a speed of over 30 miles per hour. The fuel tank would rupture and burst into flames leading to casualties and in some cases fatalities among the passengers (Tenbrunsel & Bazerman, 2011). It took so long for the decision ...

If we want to comprehend and control the ethical conduct within a business organization it is important that we understand how people behave in general. (Nelson and Trevino, 2014, p.19) Each person determines their own individual morals, values and ethics. In a business setting it is important that a set of ethical guidelines be established to regulate how the organization will conduct itself under various circumstances. Leadership is invaluable in enforcing these guidelines. According to, Ethics and Leadership, there are three things that will benefit a leader in influencing ethical behavior in an organization: 1) understanding ethics, 2) being ...

Question 1

One of the most unpleasant moments is whether a PR agency can do ethical PR for an unethical organization or company? In this regard, many national PR companies, like the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in U.S. and the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) in the UK have developed a code of ethics for PR professionals to follow and abide by. However, the basic principle of any PR strategy or program is the duty to tell the truth. Thus, the PRCA code of conduct stipulates this duty and also the duty not to disseminate misleading or false information ...

People’s existence on earth has been an enduring riddle, but many cultures have had a try or two at answering it, spawning myths of all kinds. Myths are narratives that are symbolic in nature and attempt to explain the origin of a group of people and the source of the existence of the world we live in today. Most myths recognize the existence of a supreme being from which the earth was created and also fostered the existence of the first human beings on earth who eventually generated the whole human race. This paper explains the myths of ...

List of Figures

Figure 1 Protein concentrations under the four conditions 7 Figure 2 Protein standard curve via Bradford assay at 595 nm 13 Figure 3 Protein standard curve via BCA assay at 490 nm 15

List of Tables

Introduction Proteins are essential for life and we depend on them to interact with cellular molecules in order to live (Pace et al. 2004). Increasing the knowledge about protein solubility is significant for biological studies because increased protein concentrations enhance studies of cellular structures and functions (Golovanov, Hautbergue, Wilson, & Lian, 2004). Accurate protein quantization is also necessary for cellular studies (Johnson, 2012). The environmental conditions of ...

Abstract

Throughout the known history of organizational development, the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of leadership has always been included in some of the most important discussions. There is an abundance of literature relating leadership to organizational outcomes and performance. The consensus, according to this literature, supports the notion that leadership is one of the most important indicators of organizational success. In this paper, the author conducts a review of related literature exploring the use of the Big Five Personality Traits Paradigm and Leadership Style theories when it comes to examining the differences (if any) between military and restaurant business leadership. ...

Developing to Sound Ethical Decision Making in Green Company

Ethical leadership is the main concept for the discussion at any one time when there is need to focus on organizational ethics and social responsibility. In the contemporary society than earlier before the focus on social responsibilities of an organization has developed in all areas of business. This, therefore, calls for organizations to plan effectively for the social responsibilities to the community and all the stakeholders (Trevino & Nelson, 2014, p. 53). This calls for the development of organizational codes of conduct and mission statements stating how an organization plans to dispense their responsibilities to its stakeholders. Planning for ethics ...

1. Merck’s Stakeholders Undeniably, at the heart of any business lies its stakeholders who play an indispensable role in the success of the firm. Stakeholders refer to any party that has an interest in a business. Merck has many stakeholders who include the victims of river blindness, the firm’s employees, its shareholders, the media, other healthcare firms, and the government. Ranking the stakeholders in their order of importance results to shareholders, victims, employees, media, and finally the government 2. Cost and benefits of the medical research Investing in medical research, though costly, comes with a corresponding amount ...

Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to give you a succinct overview of the current situation and the causes of fracture of the military forces in Iran as well as its effects on Iran’s belligerence. The situations this speech will talk about include economic crisis, popular frustration and the fracture of military forces.

Economic Crisis

Iran currently faces economic problems mainly due to sanctions by countries like the US due to its hardliner position and policies. Further, poor petroleum or oil infrastructure, fuel shortages and shortages of foreign commodities have compounded the gulf nation’s woes in the recent past. ...

I am working in Kuwait Ministry of Information at the Salary Department. Employees in my department are responsible for keeping salary accounts of all the staff of the Ministry. The average salary in our Department is below average. The contract provides 35 days of holidays per year. These days should be chosen by an employee himself, provided that he would preliminary book it. The salary is always paid on certain days of the mouth and we, staff of the Salary Department, have to work on these days despite of everything in order to complete the work. The issue ...

Abstract and Introduction

Ethics is one of the oldest fields of studies. Its roots can be traced back to as early as the time of the ancient western civilizations. In this study, we try to answer several questions about the correlation and importance of the genesis of knowledge (about ethical theories and thoughts, in the western civilization) and of history, in the present day study of ethical thoughts and theories. The author of this paper has developed the notion that ethics (and morality for that matter) is a continuously evolving field of study, and is therefore a product of evolution; and this is what ...