Business Academic Skills

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ESSAY DEVELOPMENT SECTION 1: ESSAY PLAN

Assessment question | Evaluate business conduct in the mining industry using three ethical principles of the Global Business Standards Codex. |

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Thesis

Statement | The principles of the Global Business Standards codex are used as a guide by an organisation in ensuring a fair operational business environment, at the same time helping an organisation take responsibility on the various activities of business (Cragg and Greenbaum, 2002). These standards have been established to ensure that all the affected parties in the mining industry are provided with the right treatment. The following is an analysis of how three ethical business principles continue to be unsatisfactorily applied to the mining industry. |

Main argument 1: | Addressing concerns of society |

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Topic

sentence | The responsiveness principle is...