Business Ethics Across Cultures
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Business Ethics Across Cultures
Socorro Rodriguez
Axia College of University of Phoenix
Abstract
In today's world and with the advent of the internet, everything from personal relationships to business has become global for all intents and purposes. You can talk to people across the world just as easily as if you were talking to your next door neighbor. Businesses can exchange documents of all sorts with the push of a button - without having to wait days, and often weeks, for those documents to be delivered by hand. We are global, and this has had a profound effect in the area of business ethics. We can do business with people from all over the world. We can conference call and meet without having to travel miles-an- miles away.
Business Ethics Across Cultures
My first article is published in Central America: 17 June 2008, last edited : 19 June 2008, UN calls for human rights accountability. Community appeals in Kazakhstan and Nicaragua. This article a UN World Bank's investment arbitration facility is at odds with the protection of human rights. The CAO has found that the IFC violated its own standards in Kazakhstan, and a new complaint has been lodged against an IFC-funded sugar company in Nicaragua; accountability for human rights violations are at the centre of both cases. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) has found that the IFC is out of compliance with its own safety standards for toxic emissions at the giant Karachaganak oil and gas field in western Kazakhstan. Working unsafe is unethically, you are not taking care of your employees, shareholders, and customers.
Local residents have suffered respiratory, nervous system and skin ailments, caused by extremely high levels of hydrogen sulphide emissions. The CAO found the monitoring program and smokestack emissions data "insufficient in order to verify compliance with IFC requirements". A complaint has been submitted to the CAO by local residents of León and Chinandega states and former...
Socorro Rodriguez
Axia College of University of Phoenix
Abstract
In today's world and with the advent of the internet, everything from personal relationships to business has become global for all intents and purposes. You can talk to people across the world just as easily as if you were talking to your next door neighbor. Businesses can exchange documents of all sorts with the push of a button - without having to wait days, and often weeks, for those documents to be delivered by hand. We are global, and this has had a profound effect in the area of business ethics. We can do business with people from all over the world. We can conference call and meet without having to travel miles-an- miles away.
Business Ethics Across Cultures
My first article is published in Central America: 17 June 2008, last edited : 19 June 2008, UN calls for human rights accountability. Community appeals in Kazakhstan and Nicaragua. This article a UN World Bank's investment arbitration facility is at odds with the protection of human rights. The CAO has found that the IFC violated its own standards in Kazakhstan, and a new complaint has been lodged against an IFC-funded sugar company in Nicaragua; accountability for human rights violations are at the centre of both cases. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) has found that the IFC is out of compliance with its own safety standards for toxic emissions at the giant Karachaganak oil and gas field in western Kazakhstan. Working unsafe is unethically, you are not taking care of your employees, shareholders, and customers.
Local residents have suffered respiratory, nervous system and skin ailments, caused by extremely high levels of hydrogen sulphide emissions. The CAO found the monitoring program and smokestack emissions data "insufficient in order to verify compliance with IFC requirements". A complaint has been submitted to the CAO by local residents of León and Chinandega states and former...