Category: Essays

Assignment 3: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World
Due Week 7 and worth 250 points

PharmaCARE (We CARE about YOUR health®) is one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies, enjoying a reputation as a caring, ethical and well-run company that produces high-quality products that save millions of lives and enhance the quality of life for millions of others. The company offers free and discounted drugs to low-income consumers, has a foundation that sponsors healthcare educational programs and scholarships, and its CEO serves on the PhRMA board. PharmaCARE recently launched a new initiative, We CARE about YOUR world®, pledging its commitment to the environment through recycling, packaging changes and other green initiatives, despite the fact that the company’s lobbying efforts and PAC have successfully defeated environmental laws and regulations, including extension of the Superfund tax, which was created by Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

Based in New Jersey, PharmaCARE maintains a large manufacturing facility in the African nation of Colberia, where the company has found several “healers” eager to freely share information about indigenous cures and an abundance of Colberians willing to work for $1.00 a day, harvesting plants by walking five (5) miles into and out of the jungle carrying baskets that, when full, weigh up to fifty (50) pounds. Due to the low standard of living in Colberia, much of the population lives in primitive huts with no electricity or running water. PharmaCARE’s executives, however, live in a luxury compound, complete with a swimming pool, tennis courts, and a golf course. PharmaCARE’s extensive activities in Colberia have destroyed habitat and endangered native species.

In preparation for this assignment, use the Internet or Strayer Library to research companies that have recently experienced negative consequences as a result of the company’s corporate activities.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1.Describe the key characteristics of a stakeholder and determine all the stakeholders within the PharmaCARE scenario.
2.Analyze the human rights issues presented by PharmaCARE’s treatment of the Colberia’s indigenous population versus that of its executives. Recommend at least three (3) changes PharmaCARE can make to be more ethical going forward.
3.Assess PharmaCARE’s environmental initiative against the backdrop of its anti-environmental lobbying efforts and Colberian activities. Support the position.
4.Decide whether or not PharmaCARE’s actions with respect to the indigenous people of Colberia would be ethical in accordance with each of the following ethical theories:
a.Utilitarianism
b.Deontology
c.Virtue ethics
d.Ethics of care
e.Your own moral / ethical compass
5.Compare PharmaCARE’s actions with those of at least one (1) real-world company, whose corporate activities led to ethical, environmental, or workplace safety issues and financial loss. Analyze the similarities and differences between PharmaCARE and the company that you chose.
6.Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference and proprietary Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

•Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
•Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

•Analyze and evaluate laws that protect against discrimination in the workplace.
•Examine and assess employee rights to health and safety in the workplace.
•Analyze environmental protection laws and assess their impact on organizations.
•Use technology and information resources to research issues in law, ethics, and corporate governance.
•Write clearly and concisely about law, ethics, and corporate governance using proper writing mechanics

Choose an industry you have not yet written about in this course, and one publicly traded corporation within that industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor.  Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

strong thesis, be persuasive, enter conversation with source, logical organization pattern, 5 cited sources

Please Answer the following:
Min. 2 references

“Using Ratios as Performance Indicators” Please respond to the following:
1.    Suggest one (1) key financial ratio that a health care administrator should create a trend analysis for. Suggest one (1) key insight that may be gained by the administrator in regard to the performance of the organization. Provide support for your rationale.

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2.    Take a position for or against the value of financial forecasting and the dedication of resources to this function. Provide support for your position.

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“Inflation and Health Care Costs” Please respond to the following:
1.    Assess the level of importance of one (1) key driver of the inflation of health care cost. Indicate how this inflation can be managed strategically in the future to minimize the financial impact. Provide support for your rationale.

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2.    Create an argument that the health care industry and patient care costs either correlate or do not correlate to the overall inflation rates in the U.S. Provide support for your argument.

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I am in 10th grade, it needs to be typed in MLA format and in depth and a lot of reference from the book.

Your goal is to write an 8-10 page argument and persuasion research paper in which you present a compelling argument, supported by credible research, and cited in MLA style. We are going to do this in steps and talk about each component along the way, but you should begin thinking about your topic. You MAY NOT write about your ethics topic. I do encourage you, however, to chose a topic that is related to your career goals and/or interests.You must have 7-10 individual pieces of research, at least five of which must be from the online databases. If you are using the Web, you must double check to make sure that your sources are credible. You should favor .edu, .gov. sources. If you use .com or .org sources, make sure you are aware of the company’s or the organization’s biases. Nothing undercuts your argument more quickly than using prejudiced resources.

submit a 1- to 2-page paper (about 300–500 words) that responds to the following questions: What can you learn from selecting that particular piece of art? How does your artifact display a human ways of knowing, thinking, or expressing? Were you surprised by the other artifacts that your classmates selected? Would your artifact be complimentary with another student artifact? If yes, describe why, if no, describe why not. Does your artifact and analysis change your perspective of who you are as a student and a learner?