Unethical business practice

[Speedy]

Just started back and uni today and have to give a presentation on tuesday discussing an example of unethical business practice from the media(either web or newspaper etc.).

Has anyone seen anything recently that they think would interesting?

Thanks in advance.

I am planning on looking myself just incase anyone thought I was being lazy :greengrin

Edit: The obvious choice is something on child labour or sweatshops but that seems a bit boring

[Betty Boop]

Just started back and uni today and have to give a presentation on tuesday discussing an example of unethical business practice from the media(either web or newspaper etc.).

Has anyone seen anything recently that they think would interesting?

Thanks in advance.

I am planning on looking myself just incase anyone thought I was being lazy :greengrin

Edit: The obvious choice is something on child labour or sweatshops but that seems a bit boring
In Business Communications

Unethical business practices in communications management can include:

Knowingly using inaccurate information on a website or in a media kit.
Using people to pose as volunteers to speak at public hearings and participate in campaigns.
Changing jobs and taking confidential information then using that information in the new position to the detriment of the former employer.
Not disclosing a strong financial interest in a client's chief competitor.
Declaring publicly that a product the client sells is safe, without disclosing evidence to the contrary.

[RyeSloan]

Is this unethical business practice by the media or just something reported by them....if it's reported then you can't get much more unethical than Madoff....you could write a whole series of presentations on his, his companies and some of his key employees total lack of ethics on how they accepted other peoples money.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

You could start off with

"Ethics - who or what determines what you can and **** do...?"
or
"Ethics - often misunderstood - its not simply a county in England - J Goody"

You could then round it off by saying...

"and finally I got the idea for this presentation after posting out on Hibs.net. I'll leave it for you to decide whether this was ethical - see sometimes good people do bad things" :cool2::devil:

Any more recent than the Rover Scandal?
Enron - auditors systemmatic shredding of evidence amongst other things Arther Andersen no longer exist as a result. Resulting in Sarbanes-Oxley.
Business practices that lead to PiperAlpha - avoid shutdowns keep up utilisation
Shell - looking to dump aging oil rig in the North sea - protestors won IIRC.

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if you are talking about media only what about the SKY allegations - blatently bugging high profile folks and then paying them off to avoid court action.

[Speedy]

It was just something reported in the media, think I'm going to go for this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/09/a_bbc_rogue_traders_investigat.html

[Phil D. Rolls]

Don't suppose you've checked the sports pages? Just wondering.

[Speedy]

Don't suppose you've checked the sports pages? Just wondering.

Aye, I was considering doing the F1 thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8258987.stm

[duncs]

The easiest way to do this is go rent Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

An unbelievable documentary about how a corporation was rotten to the very core, from almost the first day.

[Danderhall Hibs]

What about Jordan trying to increase her brand by claiming she was raped by a famous celebrity?

Very Ulrika-ka-ka.

[ancienthibby]

So, can someone define just what is meant by 'ethical business practice' so that we can get to grips with its opposite?

[steakbake]

Greggs calling their sausage rolls "sausage rolls". It's more like eyelids and hooves in a pastry wrap.

[AK86]

i would imagine a wee rake about madvlads empire would give you some material :wink:
promising your customers untold riches and success, then delivering hee haw and christian nade seems pretty unethical to me :agree:

funny though:faf::faf:

[Phil D. Rolls]

I suppose it's a bit obvious, but the way banks have treated their customers has been legal, but hardly ethical.

[Jack]

You could do some research on the guys that came out and said that the MMR vaccine caused autism and all sorts of other nasties.

Parents of children with autism raised their hopes of large sums of cash to ‘help’ with what must be a fairly traumatic experience anyway.

Parents didn’t let their children take the MMR and suffered all sorts of consequences including death.

Even today some parents will not let their children have the MMR because they remember this.

The original ‘research’ has been totally discredited again and again.

Turns out they were in the employ of companies who produced the three vaccines MMR replaced but who didn’t produce the MMR themselves.

[duncs]

You could do some research on the guys that came out and said that the MMR vaccine caused autism and all sorts of other nasties.

Parents of children with autism raised their hopes of large sums of cash to ‘help’ with what must be a fairly traumatic experience anyway.

Parents didn’t let their children take the MMR and suffered all sorts of consequences including death.

Even today some parents will not let their children have the MMR because they remember this.

The original ‘research’ has been totally discredited again and again.

Turns out they were in the employ of companies who produced the three vaccines MMR replaced but who didn’t produce the MMR themselves.

All covered in Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Science. Great read.

[Onceinawhile]

try a company like rio tinto, their always up to unethical shenanigans:agree:

[wpj]

You could do some research on the guys that came out and said that the MMR vaccine caused autism and all sorts of other nasties.

Parents of children with autism raised their hopes of large sums of cash to ‘help’ with what must be a fairly traumatic experience anyway.

Parents didn’t let their children take the MMR and suffered all sorts of consequences including death.

Even today some parents will not let their children have the MMR because they remember this.

The original ‘research’ has been totally discredited again and again.

Turns out they were in the employ of companies who produced the three vaccines MMR replaced but who didn’t produce the MMR themselves.

Part of my job is to assist in the coverage of vaccination of children in my area, including MMR, there are still a few folk who use this as a reason for not allowing their kids to have the MMR. Tony Blair never answered the questions (to my Knowledge) if his kids had it at the height of the media frenzy which didn't help.
We also have "new age" folk who refuse (using natural cures as the reason). Recently we have had religious and moral objections to girls receiving the HPV (http://www.fightcervicalcancer.org.uk/)
I would never dismiss these people out of hand for their strongly held beliefs but these vaccines can prevent so much heartache and suffering in the future.
Sorry for the :hijack: & :soapbox: and final word from me here: http://www.immunisation.nhs.uk/

[givescotlandfreedom]

You could look at the weapons trade and some of the horrific dictatorships our companies arm.

[Speedy]

I went for the Renault "scandal". Went pretty well I think.