Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category
July 28th, 2009
London has officially become the world's largest fair trade city, after more than a thousand businesses agreed to sell fairly traded goods.
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July 28th, 2009
Running a business on credit is one of the most professional things you can do, whilst also becoming one of the most risky. As soon as you offer credit to your customers you are opening yourself up for severely late payment, or worse still, no payment at all, which can be crippling for any business. For this reason it is imperative that you maintain strong credit control to minimize the risks to your business without damaging customer relations.
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July 25th, 2009
Discrimination in the workplace takes many forms. It can be related to either race, age, gender, religion or sexual orientation. This was previously driven by moral or ethical grounds and public relations. In the past, many people who don't fall into the common bracket have found it difficult to actually find jobs, then to cope with the opposition they face once their diverse lifestyle is public knowledge.
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July 19th, 2009
The purpose of a Temporary Employment Agency is to find qualified employees to fill temporary positions in other companies. Companies who only require short term employees retain the services of these temp agencies. Using a temporary agency is beneficial for the employers and temps who fill the positions.
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July 19th, 2009
2008 has seen a major shift in the recruitment industry with many organizations now looking to implementing online recruitment methods to dramatically reduce their recruitment costs. Since the first Job board was introduced in 1992, the face of recruitment has changed and there are now a growing number of suppliers who can offer a wide range of services to support, streamline and reduce the recruitment costs that employers face.
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July 15th, 2009
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
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July 15th, 2009
You can find various business ethics quizzes around thPick the one answer you think is wrong. This one is different. Each question has only one WRONG answer, doesn't analyze your answers and tell you where you went wrong. Rather, it is simply intended to raise your ethical consciousness, maybe even stimulate a little discussion between you and your peers or family.
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July 13th, 2009
One of the greatest fallacies pervading in the middle and low classes is the assumption that wealthy people have done something illegal or immoral or both to get the wealth that they possess. On the contrary. In general, rich people have found a way to create so much value for other people that other people are willing to give there money to the rich people for what ever service or commodity the rich people provide.
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July 13th, 2009
I will admit I was getting a little worried about the recently nixed Fox interview with O.J. Simpson as well as Judith Regan's decision to publish his book.
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July 11th, 2009
For many companies competing in the same sector it is vital to gain the upper hand whenever possible. Small details and things that can sometimes get overlooked take on added importance and significance when the difference between success and failure can be measure in fractions it is of paramount importance that a business makes sure it has ticked all the right boxes and not left anything to chance.
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