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This article may not specifically talk about ethical issues. However, it is an example of a little thought I had. What if more ethical issues were taught/enforced in the work place? If people are learning the need to be ethical while they're at work around 8 hours a day, perhaps some of that will spill over into their every day lives and we may see less stories such as this. All be it in China. America has firms in China as well. We could be setting an example over there.

Diversity and ethics go along way in the workplace and are soemthing to be taken very seriously. Every business should take pride in these categories and make sure they are implementing training programs so none of these issues conflict with their work.

The NBA is currently in a lockout, but a player, techinically an employee, has accepted taking a season off in order for the NBA, or business, to work out their issues.

I think the opening paragraph says it all: "Discussions about ethical issues, not to mention attempts to encourage ethical behavior, are constantly derailed by the invocation of common misstatements of ethical principles. Some of these are honest misconceptions, some are intentional distortions, some are self-serving rationalizations, and some, upon examination, simply make no sense at all."

I do have to disagree with the author's example of consequentialism. Normally, saving a woman from being killed would be ethical, however, going back in time and disrupting the time line (in my opinion) was not. Had he not gone back in time, he wouldn't have had an opportunity to save the woman and in the end, the Nazi's would not have won WWII. Also, in relation to the fallacy of "It's ethical if it's not illegal" - I don't believe that everything that is illegal is immoral or unethical. That is why laws are able to be changed - sometimes the law is wrong or unethical.

In order of our whole economic system to get bank on track, we must be able to trust each other.

Public trust issue towards banks.

If we were to have people in Congress who could work together and stop worrying about themselves so much, and how it would change their image if they actually (oh my!) compromised on something, then maybe more would be getting done on fixing the country's financial crisis. I felt this article fit in well with this week's discussion question.

U.S. lags in workplace protections : A study on global workplace protections finds the U.S. falls short behind other countries in respect to things like guaranteed sick leave. Steve Henn reports the U.S. has a fear of a global competitive disadvantage.

Lucy Kellaway's Financial Times podcast is a great resource for brilliant (and often hilarious) analysis of contemporary issues in the professional world. For a good example listen to her qualified version of Lord Acton's dictum on the way in which power corrupts: "Pretenders to power are the most dangerous"

Very insightful reflections on the challenges and benefits of having a code of ethics for a profession, in this case Anthropologists: "After three years spent seeking opinion and working on new guidelines, the American Anthropological Association is moving toward changes that some in the discipline fear will water down anthropologists' obligations to the people they study."

Some of these you might not think of as "brands" in the business sense, but in marketing philosophy every public entity has a face, and therefore a brand. 

September 24, 2011 -- Updated 1125 GMT (1925 HKT) (CNN) -- The head of Swiss banking giant UBS has resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion loss in unauthorized trading, the bank announced Saturday. Chief executive Oswald J. Gruebel is stepping down immediately, and an interim CEO has been appointed, the bank said in a statement.

Professional ethics in action. Boss realizes he is only as good as his people under him and when the mess up, he takes responsibility.

Corruption in the business world extends much farther than just between businesses. In this case an entire government is corrupt and the businesses providing the bribes are helping it to remain that way.

Angry Birds is expanding from your cell phone to Barnes and Noble and now Starbucks. The gaming world is entering coffee shops.

What do you think is the moral issue in this, Marissa?

I guess I don't think the idea of pelting pigs with birds is very moral in itself. It seems like a lot of video games are about killing and after working with elementary kids, a lot of the anger issues are stemming from video games/movies/television. I think video games are over taking our world. However, I do suppose it is a wise marketing strategy for Starbucks.

Independent journalists are among the very few in news media giving legitimate coverage to the recent US uprising against the corruption in our corporate and business world. Live coverage here. 

Banks are funding the destruction of mountaintops for coal in unethical practices that are further destroying the earth.

Major banks invest in companies that are partaking in destructing the ecosystem.

After viewing the discussion video for this week I thought that we should recognize and see how amazing this woman really was. She put her life in danger just to seek out the truth in Russia's corrupt government.

Unions have become a rather controversial topic within American work culture today, but they arose in a very different time and shaped people's work life today in some pretty profound ways, most would say some pretty good ways.

This article is about how women are rare in the higher seats of the business world. Their numbers are declining in the recession.

Some advertisers have been appealing to Sept. 11 to tell their own stories. Part of the appeal for this sort of thing is what's called in logic an "appeal to emotion" - if you use a symbol people have a powerful emotional connection to, they will be more easily swayed or drawn to you, or in this case to your product.

This is an interesting look at how culture affects business done in Egypt. Some of the practices could be considered unethical in other countries.