Ethics

1) Business Ethics: Managing Your Relationship With Competitors
As a business, your competitors are just that: competitors. However, the way you treat your competitors may affect how your customers and the media perceive your business, your ethics, and your friendliness. For those reasons, and more, it’s important that you carefully consider how you act with your competitors. In this article we provide guidance on how you can have a good relationship with competing... » read more

2) What are business ethics and what is their importance?
Business ethics are a matter of much debate. Every MBA entrant is taught the meaning of them, and yet many will never follow these guidelines in their real life careers. It has become a vast and complex field, and is the subject of much research. Business ethics encompass a large and significant portion of what it takes to do business today. Under the umbrella of business ethics comes: • The social... » read more

3) Turning Led into Gold: Ethics in the Jewelry Industry
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin "We've dodged the bullet," is the consensus opinion of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee, according to Frank Dallahan. "A job well done," though, as the title of the opinion piece suggests, "The Gun Is Still Pointed at Us" by "arrogant" NGOs. Blood Diamonds got mediocre reviews and was not widely seen and has... » read more

4) How To Keep Your Marketing Strictly Ethical And Honest
With all the fuss kicked up about SPAM and junk emails today, online marketing today has become a sensitive and important issue in establishing a client base for any business owner and marketing companies. Interestingly enough, while the days of mass mail-outs are still not over, there is really nothing different about the way both modes of mass market advertising operate. It is not the deluge of... » read more

5) Value Creation Creates Wealth
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... » read more

6) Ideas for Sending Business Thank You Gifts
I work with a flash game development company. Recently we have made a few business deals, and are now venturing into previously uncharted territory for us, thank you gifts/notes. What, If anything is customary? We also had a contact that helped arrange the deals in the first place. What would be appropriate for him? The gifts are for two different groups. One who we recently signed a contract with, and one... » read more

7) How To Avoid Dishonest Home Business Schemes
Should You Take The Bait? Unfortunately, unscrupulous home business schemes are everywhere these days. If you surf the internet, it seems as though everywhere you turn, you are flooded with ads that tell you how to earn more money than you are now, often for doing something that is easy and almost skill free work. Give us a break. These ads usually look like this: Be part of one of America's... » read more

8) Should you use Background Checks?
Background check is a very important and essential element of making yourself comfortable with people you might be looking forward to having a relationship with as an employee, business partnership or even personal. A background check can be diverse in its nature, from a simple check to a due diligence investigation, however, most background checks involve the following: · Education... » read more

9) The Human Mind in the Jewish Kabbalah
A spiritual way to control our behavior The mind is clearly more than the aggregate of human brain and nerve activity, though damage to these areas can seemingly affect its ability to communicate quite seriously. However, it has been established that people who are physically paralysed or otherwise disabled and unable to communicate because of such damage, are likely as not as lucid and intelligent -... » read more

10) An Overview Of The Business Monitor International
A leading publisher in both print and online of trade specialist information, Business Monitor International (BMI) was established in 1984 with a global perspective. Its service is updated not just quarterly, monthly or weekly but even daily. They cover a wide range of issues such as political risk, financial status, macroeconomic performance, industry sectors and operational environment. Clients and... » read more

11) Do It Right - International Business Ethics
Business ethics is not a novel idea. Its just that its one of those things that we conveniently forget when faced with tough choices. But since the Enron and WorldCom scandals of 2002, more and more people in the business world are paying attention to this oft-neglected aspect of business. Especially now with the global marketplace in full swing. Competition is cutthroat, but this does not mean that we... » read more

12) Are You Sufficient To The Task?
Let me ask you a question that may not be so simple: Why are you in business? Of course, there are probably dozens of reasons you could point to.... - serve others - contribute to the greater good - meet a need that's not being met - grow your financial well-being - express your purpose - prove to the world that you can Wait - whoa - what was that last one? Take another look... That's right. » read more

13) An Understanding of "Kashrut" in the United States
According to Answers.com, the definition of Kashrut is the state of being Kosher and/or the body of Jewish dietary law. Of course, there are many more meanings to the word Kashrut or Kosher. It does not simply apply to food. It can be in the way people are treated. However, in this article I will focus on kosher foods in the United States to help make it easier to find a kosher restaurant in Los Angeles or... » read more

14) Developing Trust in Business
The 21st century has revolutionized the way business in conducted worldwide. The world wide web connects nearly every home to companies in foreign nations as well as the teenager with a blog. The internet is the most powerful form of communication in the world and is the best tool for building a business. Unfortunately, scams, liars, and cheats also recognize the power of the web and use it to attack... » read more

15) Should you use Background Checks?
Background check is a very important and essential element of making yourself comfortable with people you might be looking forward to having a relationship with as an employee, business partnership or even personal. A background check can be diverse in its nature, from a simple check to a due diligence investigation, however, most background checks involve the following: · Education... » read more

16) How To Avoid Dishonest Home Business Schemes
Should You Take The Bait? Unfortunately, unscrupulous home business schemes are everywhere these days. If you surf the internet, it seems as though everywhere you turn, you are flooded with ads that tell you how to earn more money than you are now, often for doing something that is easy and almost skill free work. Give us a break. These ads usually look like this: Be part of one of America's... » read more

17) Decency Wins Over Cultural Decay
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. The short lived media frenzy regarding the O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It, as well as Judith Regan's ridiculous defense for why she decided to publish it intrigued me very much. Judith, if you were looking for a voice to heal then why not... » read more

18) What Can BPM and BPI Do For You?
Ever wonder if the latest greatest technology can help you? Do you wonder what would happen if you step back and took a look at your business process workflow in an end to end manner? Would you learn how to be more efficient and more profitable? When you hear business process improvement (BPI) and business process management (BPM), do you know the difference between the two? If you do know, then are you... » read more

19) The Need for Commitment
In today's work world, you cannot afford to tolerate a commitment level that remains at room temperature. You need people who invest themselves fully in their work, people who deliver dramatic results. Performance is what pays the bills. Not loyalty. Not morale. What is needed is high job commitment. Commitment works a lot harder than loyalty, and gets more done than morale does. Commitment energizes.... » read more

20) It's All About The Money, Isn't It
Advertising is a competitive field; there is no question about it. Having been in this industry for over twenty years, I have seen many changes: some good, some bad but the core basics of the business remain constant. What used to take weeks to accomplish fifteen years ago virtually takes days but the flip side of that is that in order to do that, you have to stay up with technology and constantly learn. I... » read more

21) The Impact of MNEs
The United States is the home -country for the largest amounts of foreign licensing and direct investment. Therefore, its policies understandably arouse some of the major trade unions of such outward moments. One of these critics is organized labor, which argues that foreign production often displaces what would otherwise be US production. For example, big corporations have been criticized because they... » read more

22) Internet Marketing: A Guide to List Building
There are many methods used to market internet businesses. Among them, one of the best methods is called list building. List building is as simple as its title suggests. It is the concept of building a list of possible visitors to your site. When building your list, you must take into consideration the nature of your site and those who might be related to or take an interest in the subject of your... » read more

23) The New Consumption Patterns
Contemporary economic models present the typical consumer as deliberative and highly forward-looking, not subject to impulsive behavior. Shopping for a product or a service is seen as an information-gathering exercise in which the buyers look for the best possible deal for products and/or services they have decided to purchase. Consumption choices represent optimizing within an environment of deliberation,... » read more

24) A Primer and Opinion on Digital Rights Management
Since the advent of recordable media, record companies have made billions of dollars on musical works sold in physical form. Although music has been around for thousands of years, this was a monster paradigm shift in the way artists made their livings. Fast forward to the present day - physical music is still the focus product although most musicians make little income from their sale. Digital Right... » read more

25) Motivate
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you are the boss of others, the temptation to use your power to control them is always there. However, if you start using this power too much it can bring disorder to your office environment. Think of how you would feel if you had a boss always driving you around. Would you like to work for someone like that? If your hard work was never... » read more

26) Encouraging Ethical Behavior
Most authorities agree that there is room for improvement in business ethics. One of the most problematic questions raised in relation to business ethics is whether or not businesses can become more ethical in the real world. The majority opinion on this issue suggests that government, trade associations, and individual firms can indeed establish acceptable levels of ethical behavior. The government can... » read more