Week 10 Discussion questions

Discussion 1

Ethics and Social Responsibility
Please respond to the following:

• Select a small business with which you are familiar and develop a plan of action for encouraging ethical behavior. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Analyze a business’s responsibilities to the environment, employees, customers, investors, and the community, and determine which is the most important. Explain your rationale.

Discussion 2

The Legal Environment
Please respond to the following:

• Select a small business with which you are familiar and discuss the most likely forms of business law it would need to be concerned about. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Referring to the same company, discuss the most likely government regulations that would directly impact day-to-day operations. Provide specific examples to support your response.

Discussion 3

"Act Local" Please respond to the following:

• Based on the lecture and Webtext materials, address the following:
  
  
  • Select one (1) developing country, and discuss the fundamental actions that the leadership of the selected country is — or is not — taking to improve the living standards of its people. Next, using this same country, cite one (1) specific example of progress or regress that its government is making in terms of the economy, the political system, and the environment.