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Explain how Ethical Climate is promoted in organizations through examples.
There are highly ethical organizations, examples of some of which are given below: 1. Marilyn Hamilton,…
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‘Managers’ responsibility is to conduct business to increase profits’. Discuss.
• Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said ‘The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits……. …
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Why managements prefer to make engineers as managers than non-engineers? / Why engineers find management positions attractive?
Engineers undergo the most intensive technical training amongst professionals. But still, many of them move…
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Which studies are more useful to ‘engineer managers’ than even engineering?
Richard L.Meehan, a civil engg graduate from MIT, was retained by General Electric as a…
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What are the difficulties in Decommissioning Weapons?
1. Even now, shells (duds or live) which landed about 90 years back during World War…
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Explain the problems of defense industry with examples.
1. Large military build-ups: $2 billion cost overrun on the development of C5-A cargo plane reported…
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What are the Problems of Defense Industry in brief?
1. Large military build-ups, massive projects all lead to unethical business practices and the urgency of…
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Illustrate the involvement of engineers in Weapons Development with examples.
1. Bob is employed by a firm manufacturing anti-personnel bombs. These bombs tie up much of…
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Describe the destructive nature and power of weapons and their development?
• Towards the end of World War II, night raids sometimes on civilian areas were ver…
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How much is being spent in Defence expenditure and how Arms Trade gets promoted by private manufacturers of arms?
- Hundreds of billions of dollars, annually, throughout the world, are being spent for military operations.…