Business Ethics

Reflect on what you have learned throughout the readings for this unit. Discuss what you believe should be the best practices a business should utilize for environmental sustainability and/or minimizing greenhouse gas emissions. What strategies do you believe a business could use for sustainability and, therefore, have a minimal impact on the environment?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Instructions
Reflect on the topics of freedom of expression and privacy inside and outside of your current or former workplace setting, and consider the following two questions.

1. Should a current or prospective employer have a right to investigate your posts on social media and make job-related determinations based upon what has been posted? Would you consider that an invasion of right to privacy? Why, or why not?
2. Do you believe a company has a right to impose negative consequences regarding limiting an employee’s freedom of expression even when not at work? Why, or why not? Please share examples to support your answer.
   Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
   Instructions
   Chapter 11 and the Unit V lesson discusses different types of discrimination that occur in the workplace. Review and answer the following questions:
3. Do you believe there could be a situation in which some form of discrimination might be morally justified? What would that situation be?
4. The textbook discusses gender harassment and sexual harassment. As a manager of a large institution, how would you differentiate between the two types of harassment? Why?
   Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary
   Instructions
   Read the discussion case found in module eight of the textbook on social harms: obesity and opioids. Respond to the following questions.
5. Do you believe that fast-food restaurants should share responsibility for the current obesity epidemic? Why?
6. Should pharmacies be responsible for educating and ensuring that the public is aware of the ongoing opioid crises in the country? What steps could pharmacies take to prevent opioid misuse?