Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

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Assignment 2: Challenges in the Business Environment.

As you have explored in this course, ongoing challenges in the global business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as the Chief Compliance Officer of a Fortune 500 company and must prepare a presentation for your suppliers regarding your Supplier Code of Conduct to deliver via email, webinar, etc.

For this assignment, you are to create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) and your research on the Fortune 500 company from Assignment 1. In your presentation, you are to summarize the important changes and explanations regarding the code of conduct that you would communicate via email, webinar, etc. The specific requirements are listed below.

Presentation Requirements:

Create a six (6) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

  1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Responsibility information.
  2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and society social responsibility.
  3. Discuss your company’s stance on each of the following areas:
    • Empowering Workers
    • Labor and Human Rights
    • Health and Safety
    • The Environment
    • Accountability
  2. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed since last year.
  3. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.
  4. Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.
  5. Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references, from within the last 2 years, that you used for this PowerPoint presentation. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your PowerPoint presentation must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The title and reference slides are not included in the required slide length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Evaluate the influences of changing economic, political, social, cultural, and technological forces on business and society.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

Analyze the role that culture plays in global business ethics.Describe and persuade on the importance and rationale for maintaining an ethical culture within the entire organization.

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For this assignment, you will take on the role of a Vice President of a major organization. The CEO has assigned you the responsibility of educating the leaders within the organization of the importance of maintaining an ethical culture. The tone of the presentation should be of a persuasive nature as you will also be asking these leaders to take this initiative to each of their areas. As you compile this presentation, include the following:
Explain exactly what it means to maintain an ethical culture within the organization.
Analyze the role that culture plays in global business ethics.
Describe and persuade on the importance and rationale for maintaining an ethical culture within the entire organization. Think about methods that could be used to motivate towards ethical business practices.
Recommend tactical methods that might be used within each of their areas.
Your PowerPoint presentation should be 12-14 slides, not including the title slide and reference slide. All sources used must be referenced and paraphrased. Directly quoted material must have accompanying citations and be cited per APA guidelines.
Use of speaker notes is required as well. In the speaker notes, you will provide what you would say if you were actually giving the presentation to an audience. Please write your notes in complete sentences and adhere to typical grammar and/or punctuation rules.

What principles or rules would you propose we use to balance the value of wildlife species against economic interests? Explain your answer using ethical principles.

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1. What are the systemic, corporate, and individual issues raised in this case? Explain your answer using ethical principles.

2. How should wildlife species such as grouse or deer be valued, and how should that value be balanced against the economic interests of a society or of a company like Questar? What principles or rules would you propose we use to balance the value of wildlife species against economic interests? Explain your answer using ethical principles.

3. Should the loss of species produced by the drilling operations of Questar and its successor be considered a problem of pollution or a problem of conservation? Can the loss of species be evaluated as an “external cost”? Explain your answer using ethical principles.

Discuss this quote: “Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them” by Warren Buffett.

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1)What are “Gatekeepers” and how are they impacted by conflicts of interest. (slides 5,6,7,8) (1-2 paragraphs)

2)Discuss the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
(slides 9,10) (1-2 paragraphs)

3)Discuss the concept of Internal Control
(Slides 11,12) (1-2 paragraphs)

4)What are the duties of Board of Directors (slides 15,16) (1-2 paragraphs)

5)Discuss this quote: “Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them” by Warren Buffett.

What kinds of internal controls would you put in place to prevent such fraud from taking place again?What steps do you think the accounting profession has taken to prevent such fraudulent activities?

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Answer the following questions with as much detail as you can based on your extensive research of the unethical practices that took place.
1. What is the company name?
2. What happened?
3. Who were the main players in the ethical scandal?
4. How did they do it? (Meaning how was the fraud or scandal perpetrated?)
5. How did they get caught?
6. What were the assessed penalties?
7. List one (or a few) interesting facts one may not know about the company or the fraud that took place.
8. What measures could the company (upper level management or employees in general) have done to prevent such fraud?
9. What kinds of internal controls would you put in place to prevent such fraud from taking place again?
10. What steps do you think the accounting profession has taken to prevent such fraudulent activities?

Discuss the market-based approach to environmental policies. Discuss the following quote: “Environmental regulation is a signal of design failure”

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1)Discuss the market-based approach to environmental policies.
2) Discuss the following quote: “Environmental regulation is a signal of design failure”
3) Discuss the sustainability approach to environmental policies and the principles of a sustainable business and the three pillars of sustainability.
4) Pertaining to business, discuss this Quote: “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” By Edward Abbey

Expound on the different methods of conventional drug control and enforcement. Which of these methods seem to have the greatest impact? Which have minimal impact?

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Answer these essay questions:

List the different businesses in which organized crime is involved, and why, and identify the most and least lucrative. Explain in your opinion how the legalization of such businesses (drugs, prostitution, etc.) would impact organized crime’s involvement and profits.

If you were a federal investigator assigned to a task force focused on identifying money laundering operations in your community, which types of businesses or organizations would you begin investigating based on the four methods commonly used by criminals to launder illegally earned money, and why/

Explain how the concept of community policing can be used to control drug abuse and trafficking in our communities. Include your opinion on whether or not you think it works in communities with high crime rates, and what you’d change about the system.

Expound on the different methods of conventional drug control and enforcement. Which of these methods seem to have the greatest impact? Which have minimal impact?

Discuss if you believe it is possible for a company to cater to both its best interest and that of the consumer conjointly or if one always has to prevail. Justify your response.

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In the land of free trade, the public does not view all industries as equal. Do you believe that is ethical? Do you believe that some industries are unfairly targeted? Should it be consumers’ choice to partake in products that are not healthy for them, or do those companies have an ethical obligation to protect people? In this assignment, you will choose from one (1) of the following industries to write about:
• The pharmaceutical industry
• The payday loan industry
• Cloning for medical purposes
Write a paper in which you:
1. Become an advocate for either the consumer or the industry. Prepare an argument explaining the major reasons why you support either the consumer or the industry.
2. Discuss if you believe it is possible for a company to cater to both its best interest and that of the consumer conjointly or if one always has to prevail. Justify your response.
3. Use at least two (2) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
4. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
o This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Determine the considerations for and process of ethical business decision making to balance corporate and social responsibilities, and address moral, economic, and legal concerns.
• Analyze selected business situations using the predominant ethical theories, such as utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to guide ethical business decision making.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics.
• Write clearly and concisely about business ethics using proper writing mechanics.

Explain the basis of seminal theories of research concerning this business trend and who created the theories. Analyze the evolution of at least two theories and the business trend (scholar and practitioner).

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For your Signature Assignment, write a literature review of the information regarding a topic in your business specialization of your choosing. Be sure to include the following in your submission:

A brief overview of the topic you chose that addresses the following:

Explain how your topic is a business trend and why you chose this topic.
Indicate how your topic relates to your business specialization and why further study is important.
Assess how your topic relates to ever-evolving technology and its use in business.
A literature review that addresses the following:

Explain the basis of seminal theories of research concerning this business trend and who created the theories.
Analyze the evolution of at least two theories and the business trend (scholar and practitioner).
Synthesize the current research regarding the business trend, including current theories and practices associated with the trend.
Summarize your findings regarding this business trend and determine whether this is a topic you would consider for your dissertation.

Explain to Jim if he needs additional capital to begin his new company what are some ways he could finance his new company?

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  • Individual task.
  • Answer the following questions in a single document using the material and information given to you throughout the course. Once you have decided which

country you will be working in, the UK, Canada or the USA, you must research and find the laws or regulations that correspond to the questions that you are answering. Remember to use Harvard citations in the document and to provide a reference page at the end.

  1. Jim who recently quit his job after receiving a very large bonus payment is interested in forming his own business. He is not sure how to begin and he has asked you to help him identify and analyze what company formation options he has available. He can set up his business in the UK, Canada or the USA, he will go where you decide.
    1. Please advise him on what it means to be unincorporated, the advantages and disadvantages
    2. Then explain to him the significance of opening an incorporated business? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of business?
    3. Then explain to him what is a Limited Liability Partnership? What responsibilities and liabilities do the partners have for themselves individually, to

the firm/to each other in the firm and to the public?

  1. Explain to Jim if he needs additional capital to begin his new company what are some ways he could finance his new company?
  1. 5 years later Jim has done very well but he is facing competition from 4 other similar businesses, he is considering the idea of merging with one of his competitors or trying to acquire one of them.
    1. Explain to Jim what a merger is. Then identify and explain the steps that he and the other party would need to take to merge together – remember this will vary country to country.
    2. Jim was able to convince Bob to merge their companies together, explain to Jim what three separate groups of professionals are recommended to be consulted to assist him with this merger.
    3. Explain to Jim and Bob what issues they will need to agree to when the two comes merge into one new company. For example, who will be the Director, etc…
  2. (In case Jim cannot merge with someone) Jim soon realizes that none of his competitors want to merge with him but still facing stiff competition, so he asks you to assist him in acquiring one of the competitors to give him a bigger advantage in the market.
    1. Explain to Jim what is an acquisition and then explain to him the different ways he can acquire one of his competitor’s company.
    2. Explain to Jim what the significance of him acquiring a competitor’s company would be in relations to control of the company, decision making,

directors, etc…

  1. If Jim cannot merge with a competitor is there the possibility of a Strategic Alliance or Joint Venture between the parties?
    1. Explain what is a Strategic Alliance? What are the main characteristics of a strategic alliance and the advantages/disadvantages?
    2. Explain what is a Joint Venture? What are the main characteristics of a joint venture and the advantages/disadvantages?