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Q. M2 - Assess the social implications of business ethics facing a selected business in its different areas of activity
Choose some issues from the areas of activity from this list:
ethics in finance - bribery, executive pay, insider trading, lobbying
ethics in human resource management - discrimination, worker surveillance
ethics in production - animal testing, GM foodstuffs, planned obsolescence
ethics in sales and marketing - spamming, shills, product placement, green washing
ethics in intellectual property - software piracy, counterfeiting, peer to peer file sharing
1. Explain how might they deal with or implement (put in place) the issue?
2. Illustrate what might the problems be of implementing (putting in place) or dealing with the issue?
3. Illustrate what will be the advantages of implementing or dealing with the issue?
4. Assess explain how it might affect the consumer.
5. Assess explain how it might affect the employees.
6. If they do not address the issue, illustrate what are the legal consequences on the business?