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Is Responsible Leadership Possible? Exploring The Experiences Of Business Leaders, Educators, And Scholars, Kanina Blanchard

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This study addresses a simple yet complex question: How can leaders come to make more responsible decisions within today’s highly economized context? Using narrative inquiry, I explore the stories which leaders in academia, business, and education tell about their experiences at what I call the point of impingement—the point where, as leaders, they must make decisions while facing conflicting and opposing norms and values. Underpinning the inquiry is Kempster and Carroll’s (2016) conceptualization of responsibility in leadership, and their argument that transformation toward a future in which responsible leaders address societal, ecological, and humanitarian challenges requires exploration of lived experience. …

Ethical Violations In The Work Environment, Adna De Sousa Duarte

Business ETD Collections

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the factors that influence ethical violations in the work environment. Also, evaluate the employees' view regarding this situation and the employer's perception about this conduct, contributing to ethical validation in the workplace, regardless of the worker's non-European status.A qualitative method was conducted by open-ended questionnaire with 32 useful samples answered from non-European citizens and to obtain relevant data an interview was elaborated with two managers of the hospitality industry. The connection of Human Resources management and organisational ethics is essential in order not only to guarantee workers' rights but also to …

Dark Clouds: The Ethics Behind A Growing Vape Culture, Matthew Crenshaw

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

This project addresses the areas of vaping consequences and the overall perception of vaping as a whole from the public. It also successfully answers one primary question: Have vaping companies really done anything “unethical” in terms of marketing and selling their products, or are they just the easiest entity to blame?

Vaping has been referred to as an “epidemic” in recent years. It has gained an immense amount of popularity among America’s youth however little is known about its long-term health risks. Vaping, along with its advertising techniques and unique target audience, has been compared to cigarettes and with that …