BACKGROUND The professional environment of any specialized area consists of far more than technical skills. An implicit understanding of professional ethics is necessary to maintain confidence when working in the interest of the public (Becker,...
INTRODUCTION Suppose a great commotion arises in the street ... about a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the...
HONOR CODES The recent corporate scandals represented by the bankruptcy and criminal prosecutions of officials from Enron, WorldCom and other apparently successful corporations have raised the question whether business ethics education should hold...
INTRODUCTION Earlier generations of business research focused exclusively on America and Western Europe. The world has changed, as the large state-run economies have crumbled and capitalism has bloomed across the globe. Business leaders in American...
INTRODUCTION Many articles have been written about tax evasion. Most of them have appeared in the accounting, economics and public finance literature. The usual thrust of these articles is to discuss technical aspects of tax evasion. Practitioner...
INTRODUCTION Former Supreme Court Justice, Lewis Powell described the federal judiciary and the United States Supreme Court as perhaps "the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change" (Lazarus, 2008). The Constitutional...
INTRODUCTION In light of media attention to corporate scandals and numerous restatements of financial statement that occurred during 2001-2002 one common demand on company chief executive officers and chief financial officers became evident. This...
INTRODUCTION In May, 2006, janitors at the University of Miami ended a two-month strike which included hunger strikes and a short take-over of an administration building. The janitors are employed by the university's cleaning contractor, Unicco...
INTRODUCTION Workers in the United States are most commonly hired, and fired, based on the employment relationship deemed "at will." While England provided the foundation to most law in the United States, the questions regarding the duration of...
FACTS The plaintiff, Lilly Ledbetter ("Ledbetter"), began her career at Goodyear Tire and Rubber ("Goodyear") in 1979. For most of her twenty year career at Goodyear, Ledbetter was the only female manager. Initially, Ledbetter's salary was the same...