Extremely Rough, Rough Draft!

What makes a successful business? Do more business laws help or hinder success of business? What impact on communities do successful businesses have?

Still working on thesis statement but it will have to do with the above questions.

Overall presentation focus: ethical business versus legal business and the impact on community.

Slide 1: Introduction

·         Define success: defined by the Oxford dictionary, is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.

·         Give success meaning: roughly an expectation of making enough money to be “comfortable”. how different perceptions cause people to feel unequal and in turn attempt to re-equalize the situation. As a result of inequality people tend to react either ethically or unethically. This article discusses how “ethical” is a relative term and up for individual interpretation. The article is all about individual perceptions and “feelings” instead of actual number correlation. Meaning how a person feels they are compared to their parents instead of the actual income they receive compared to that of their parents taking into consideration the difference in economic conditions. 

·         Introduce characters: Bill Gates (first business failed), Bethany Hamilton (lost an arm to shark bite but still top surfer), Richard Branson (Virgin Records has dyslexia), Jay-Z (no one signed him), Vincent Van Gogh (sold one painting), Al Capone (Chicago alcohol bootlegger), Pablo Escobar (Columbian drug lord), Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bombing).

Slide 2: Laws

·         Discuss impact of laws: The two areas where law is arguably the largest presence in ordinary life driving cars and paying taxes-are probably the two areas where there is the largest amount of self-conscious cheating (Michael, 2006). It addresses the issue that rules or laws are generated from past wrong doings. Laws are limited to the known and when a business acts unethical it commonly falls within the scope of laws.

Slide 3: Ethics

·         Discuss impact of ethical actions:

1.      Enhance Management Practices:

2.      Provide Superior Service:

3.      Employ Public Relations Techniques:

4.      Enhance Quality:

5.      Motivate Employees:

·         there are positive factors that can influence business professionals to behave ethically and there are also negative reasons. It also discusses the internal and external factors that generate ethical or unethical behaviors. The paper explains how increased governmental actions are affecting business. The continued increase in demand for ethical excellence generates higher ethical actions which is also a topic within this article.

1.      Positive Factors:

a.       Government Involvement:

2.      Negative Factors:

Slide 4: Community

Discuss contribution:

1.      Positive: Giving back, fundraisers, donations.

2.      Negative: Influential, crime, standards

Add scenario twist:

1.      Pablo Escobar (family man) giving back to community.

Slide 5: Solution

Offer solutions: Educate (Bernardi)

Slide 6: References:

References

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Citation [Def. 1]. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionary Online,  Retrieved September 24, 2011, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/success

Jacques, Renee. (2013, September). 15 Wildly Successful People Who Overcame Huge Obstacles to Get There. The Huffington Post. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Kaler, John. Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 27, No. 1/2, Business Challenging Business Ethics: New Instruments for Coping with Diversity in International Business: The 12th Annual EBEN Conference (Sep., 2000), pp. 161-173

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Michael, Michael L. Business Ethics Quarterly , Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 2006), pp. 475-504

Porter, Gayle. Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 17, No. 15, Promoting Business Ethics: The Third Annual International Vincentian Conference (Nov., 1998), pp. 1669-1678

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