Question: Business Ethics

Now that you have an understanding of corporate culture, and the variables that impact it, how would you characterize an ethically effective culture - one that would effectively lead to a profitable and valuable long-term sustainability for the firm?

Human Resource Management

Performance management is an important component of organizational strategy. Identify hurdles to managing the performance of expatriates and provide solutions to these hurdles. Whose support would you need to make this process successful?

Fire Prevention

Discuss the agency in your community responsible for providing fire prevention education at various levels (e.g., schools, elderly housing units, or open-house functions). Provide specific details as to how this agency presents its information and what time of the year this information is presented to the various audiences.

Critical Thinking

In Chapter 1, Paul and Elder describe the virtue of Intellectual Courage. Describe a moment in your life when you showed Intellectual Courage. What belief did you question? Why were you willing to give up that belief? How were you able to stand up against the majority?