Compose a 2500 words assignment on socially responsible organizational buying. Needs to be plagiarism free! Their definition of social responsibility suggests that even though, companies whose stores carry consumer goods, such, as apparel, are not involved in the production, they should consider the impact of the production on consumers during their product sourcing and distribution practices. It would be important to select socially responsible suppliers and to purchase socially responsible products as these represent common day-to-day activities.

The literature on business ethics (Subhabrata, 2007. Littrell and Dickson, 1999) suggests that organizational factors affect ethical judgments of decision-makers. It has been found that organizational factors influencing ethical decision-making include reference groups, rewards and sanctions, codes of conduct, type of ethical conflict/decision, organisation effects, industry, business competitiveness, peer group influence, top management influence, and the existence of opportunities for socially responsible/ irresponsible or ethical/unethical action (Subhabrata, 2007). Such factors determine individuals’ perceptions regarding the ethical content of the problems to be solved and the consequences and, thus, influence ethical judgments that are presumably positively-related to the actual behaviors. Similarly, such influential organizational factors can be effective to improve their employee’s ethical and socially responsible buying, and it is companies role to implement them strategically and systematically in the organization. As such, socially responsible buying decisions are likely influenced by factors related to the organizational variables as well as individual variables. Though many researchers have addressed the issues of social responsibility in business organizations and offered conceptual propositions and suggestions, there are few academic studies that empirically support the propositions.

Fundamentally, profit-making company’s primary goal is to serve its customers with&nbsp.products and services, and that is achieved by selective purchasing from multiple suppliers of product alternatives.

Write 5 pages with APA style on Jane Austen Northanger Abbey. The novel traces the metamorphosis of Catherine Morland, the wide-eyed ingénue, who mixes the imagined world of her Gothic novels with the reality of her existence, and her final rapprochement with the truth that life is different from what her imagination had portrayed it to be.

“Northanger Abbey” on one level can be treated as a novel of manners, since it encompasses most of the traits that conform to this genre. The novel is a commentary on the life in nineteenth century England and much emphasis has been placed on the components of proper and improper behavior. The story itself is a kind of “coming-of-age” narrative, where we see the 17 year old Catherine Morland grow up from a wide eyed immature girl into the confident woman who knows how to take her rightful place in society. Catherine’s growth is not only concerned with learning, but it is a process of unlearning all that she has imbibed from the Gothic novels she relishes. She has to master the art of curbing her imagination and instead learn to grapple with reality.

The social conventions of the time are portrayed brilliantly by Jane Austen in her works and in “Northanger Abbey” we see her outlook towards the custom of primogeniture, which she has dealt with in her other works too. Austen juxtaposes the profligate natural heir with a younger but more capable sibling, who is denied a part in the family fortune only because of a stroke of fate. In “Northanger Abbey,” the Tilney brothers are a perfect example of the absurdity of this law. Frederick Tilney “disobedient and sensual” heir apparent to his father’s fortune shows a complete lack of disregard to social conventions, directly in proportion to his unchallenged legal position as heir. (Popham , Sir John) Henry Tilney, on the other hand is more suited to carry out the proper management of the Tilney estate and also create stronger family bonds.

Instructions

International trade can have big effects on domestic markets. For both an import good and an export good (in other words, address each bulleted item below twice—once for import and once for export), describe how opening up to international trade affects the following:

• supply or demand for the particular good,
• the competitiveness of that good’s market, and
• how the change in competitiveness affects equilibrium price and quantity.

Stepping away from the import/export examples, describe how opening up to trade specifically affects a domestic monopoly. Include an explanation, using game theory, of how even a single additional competitor can lead to a market outcome similar to perfect competition.

Your essay must be at least four pages in length (not counting the title and references pages) and include at least three peer-reviewed resources. Adhere to APA Style when writing your essay, including citations and references for sources used. Be sure to include an introduction. Please note that no abstract is needed.

Complete 2 pages APA formatted article: Critical review of classmates’ reports. Critical review mates reports on Dalai Lama’s Dialogue with Business Leaders at Santa Clara Dalai Lama is a moral and spiritual figure from the Indian origin and is considered a world-wide spiritual and moral leader because of his embodiment of compassion. He has dedicated his life to serving humanity. He has been very successful in solving human conflicts in the world by using compassionate and peaceful resolution methods. He has been awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 for his efforts in contributing towards peace keeping, non-violence, kindness and compassion. His areas of commitment are more in the promotion of forgiveness, tolerance, reducing of conflict and competition, self-discipline, human values of compassion, and ethics.

There are two types of compassion that Dalai Lama discusses. One type of compassion is concerned with a sense of concern for other which only involves the sense of sentiments or feeling of concern. The other type of compassion is concerned with not only the sense of sentiment but also the responsibility to do something. The two types of compassion can be explained through an example of a businessman who has lost all his fortune through fraud. In the first type of compassion, a person only sympathizes with the businessman but in the second type of compassion, a compassionate person would help that person get back on productive business by giving him advice or material help. The second type of compassion should be included in virtue, deontological or utilitarian ethics as it promotes productive compassion.

There are two types of competition discussed by Dalai Lama. The first type of competition is the one where a person competes in order to progress and reach the top level. This type of competition is positive. Another type of competition is negative where a person competes in order to become top be creating obstacle to the other people involved. For example, an employee can work hard and learn the loopholes of the company so that he is able to strategically work to deliver high quality results which will result in his promotion. This is positive competition. On the other hand, another employee may use schemes such as bad-mouthing and corruption in order to be promoted.

It is very true that one is able to be very busy on one level and at the same time, on deeper level, be in a state “of composure and calmness.” This is because the cognitive level can be very engaged in deep state of mind while the emotional state of mind remains very calm and composed. For example, I have experienced this state of composure and calmness in a working environment with excessive emotional conflict and still stayed composed to deeply analyze statistical data required by the management.

The belief of Dalai Lama that the world would have less conflicts and less violence if there were female leaders is based on his analysis of compassion on women. Women are more compassionate than men. They are also sensitive biologically to the pains suffered by other people. Thus they are less likely to spark neither conflict nor violence in the world. I do not agree with this view. There are women leaders which do no demonstrate nay difference in compassionate from their male counterparts. Furthermore, these qualities are based on personality more than on gender.

Work Cited

Incorporating Ethics and Compassion into Business Life: A Conversation between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Academic and Business Leaders. Transcript (94k PDF), downloaded March 17, 2014 from http://www.scu.edu/ethics-center/events/dalailama/video/afternoon.

I need some assistance with these assignment. macroeconomic environment of business Thank you in advance for the help! There was a continuous rise in the staple food prices resulting in runaway inflation close to 6%. The European central bank raised the interest rates and increase in the unemployment rate at the end of 2008 due to the outbreak of the housing bubble all contributed in resulting the recession.

The US GDP showed its slowdown in 2008 (Suffolk County Council, 2008, pp.3-4) and fell further in 2009, the first time since the 1950s. There was a decline in capital investment since the last quarter of 2006 and the pace of residential investment dropped down in the first part of 2009. The US domestic demand is a record breaker dropping down to 2.6% per quarter. Unemployment also started to rise and matched with that of the early 1980s.

Fiscal stimulus played an important role in nullifying recessionary spiral. However, the impact seems to be much less for economies with higher amounts of public debt. In order to support the aggregate demand, the need of the time is aggressive monetary policies. Economists who follow Keynes argues that an expansionary fiscal policy act as an incentive to increase aggregate demand. Even such a step may not be fruitful because steady economic growth depends on the health of the economy. Restoring the confidence of the financial sector is the key to move out from such a situation (International Monetary Fund, 2009, pp. 111-112). The need is to analyse the effects of discretionary policies on the severity of recessions. Expansionary fiscal policy acts to increase demand either directly through an increase in government expenditure or indirectly through a reduction in tax which will stimulate the private consumption to take effect.

There may be a few limitations of using fiscal policy in order to increase aggregate demand. The time factor is to be taken into account. The government needs time to change its fiscal plans and once implemented the new plan will take time to increase the aggregate demand. Again increasing aggregate demand may be the factor in causing crowding out which means that if the government tries to increase its expenditure then it may lead to falling in private sector spending.&nbsp.&nbsp.