Mgt 5015 Term Paper

Nova Southeastern University

Wayne Huizenga Graduate School

of Business & Entrepreneurship

Assignment for Course: MGT 5015

Submitted to: Stephen Muffler

Submitted by: Ashley Biamby

Kyle Palmer

Trey Carmichael

Date of Submission: September 14, 2014

Title of Assignment: Term Paper

CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: We certify that we are the authors of this paper and that any assistance we received in its preparation is fully acknowledge and disclosed in the paper. We have also cited any sources from which we used data, ideas of words, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. We also certify that this paper was prepared by us specifically for this course.

Student Signature: Ashley Biamby, Kyle Palmer, and Trey Carmichael

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Analytical Review of the Legal, Moral, & Social Responsibility of FedEx Indictment

Ashley Biamby

Kyle Palmer

Trey Carmichael

Nova Southeastern University

MGT 5015- Legal, Ethical, and Social Values of Business 

September 14, 2014

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Background Information 6

Legal Section 8

Relevant Legal Principles and Rules of Law 9

Application of Law to Topic and Legal Analysis 10

Legal Conclusion 11

Ethics Section 12

Ethics 12

Utilitarian Ethics 12

Utilitarian Analysis 13

Moral conclusion pursuant to Utilitarian model 16

Kantian Ethics 17

The Categorical Imperative 17

Application of the Three Tests of the Categorical Imperative 17

Kantian Moral Conclusion 19

Fatalism Ethical Analysis 19

Fatalism key ethical principles and ethical analysis 19

Moral Conclusion pursuant Fatalism 20

Overall Conclusion to Ethics section 21

Social Responsibility Section 22

“Social Responsibility” and Formulation of definitional-principle 22

Application of Social Responsibility to topic 23

Social Responsibility recommendations 24

Social...