Analyze the legal and ethical ramifications of the purchasing manager’s offer to the customs official?

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Evaluate two of the scenarios listed below and explain the best solution for each. Include comments related to any ethical issues that arise. Support your responses with appropriate cases, laws and other relevant examples by using at least one scholarly source from the SUO Library in addition to your textbook for each scenario.

Scenario 1—International Trade

The Director of Purchasing for parts distribution company wants to purchase steel coach screws from Germany; however, he is not sure what the best option is. The director comes to you and asks your opinion. You know that Germany, Canada, and Korea are the best sources for obtaining this product. While your research shows coach screws from Germany are of the highest quality, the United States imposes a tariff of 12.5%, which makes this option noncompetitive.

  • Which US trade laws should you consider when selecting a country?
  •  Is there any way by which you can seek a reduction on the tariff? If so, how? If not, why?
  •  Select an alternative country (Canada or Korea) for purchasing the coach screws and explain your reasons for selecting the country.

Scenario 2 – Bribery

Slyce Pizza Company purchased four commercial refrigerators for the restaurants and eight pizza ovens from a supplier in Italy. Between the shipping costs, delays, and unanticipated duties, the purchasing manager was worried that his boss would be upset about the total costs. In an effort to reduce costs, the manager offered a US Customs officer $500 in cash to re-classify the imported goods to reduce the amount of duties owed.

  • Analyze the legal and ethical ramifications of the purchasing manager’s offer to the customs official?
  • Would it make a difference if the purchasing manager offered to donate $500 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital if the officer expedited the paperwork necessary to release the goods from custom’s custody?

Scenario 3—Environment

Recycling Genie is a new company that contracts with Best Buy and other electronics retailers for the collection old computers, monitors, televisions, and cell phones dropped off at their facilities. The electronics contain lead, mercury, and polyvinyl chlorides that are known to have toxicological effects such as cancer, kidney disease, and brain damage. Recycling Genie has been in negotiations to ship the e-waste to companies in China, Vietnam, and Mongolia.

  •  What are the legal and ethical concerns with shipping e-waste to these countries?

Scenario 4—Property

Ginger and Allen lived together in New Mexico since 2011, but they were not married until July 2013. Allen purchased the home in 2008, prior to meeting Ginger. He did not add Ginger to the title after they were married; however, she contributed to the mortgage payments from 2011 until she started her business in 2013. In September 2013, Ginger inherited $55,000 from her father that she used to start a corporation, Fantastic Faces, a beauty consulting business

Ginger worked full time for Fantastic Faces, while Allen continued with his job teaching at the university. Allen made no contributions to Fantastic Faces. Due to limited financial resources, Ginger did not earn any salary until 2015.

In May 2013, Allen inherited 20 acres of farmland in Alabama from his grandfather. The land was leased to a local farmer. Allen visited the farm after the funeral in 2013 but did not return to Alabama. The rental income of $5,000 per year was deposited into the couple’s joint account. Allen filed for divorce in New Mexico on November 10, 2015.

  •  Explain the how the court will determine the ownership of the house, farmland, and business based on New Mexico law.
  •  Determine how the court would decide if the couple resided in your state instead of New Mexico.

Positive Linear Relationship

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There are four general relationship types between variables that may be determined in research. A variable can be described as a situation, behavior or characteristic that varies (Cozby & Bates, 2015). These relationships are the positive linear relationship, negative linear relationship, no relationship between variables, and the curvilinear relationship. The positive linear relationship occurs when there is an increase in both of the values of the variables that are present in the research problem/ experiment (Cozby & Bates, 2015). For example, a scientist notices that tall people tend to have a larger shoe size, while those who are not as tall tend to have a smaller shoe size. The scientist tests 100 people (50 men, and 50 women). The scientist defines “tall” for men as being 6ft or taller, and for women, 5ft7in or taller. The scientist observes in both women and men that as their height increased, the size of the shoe also increased. The scientist is able to observe and conclude that there is a positive relationship between an increase in a person’s height and the increase in their shoe size.

References

Cozby, P. C., & Bates, S. C. (2015). Methods In behavioral research (12th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Retrieved from https://phoenix.vitalsource.com/#/books/1259798283/cfi/6/20!/4/4/4@0.00:0

 

Cozy & Bates (2015), some variables have true numeric values whereas the levels of other variables are simply different categories (p. 76). What I have gathered is the correlations between the different variables can show whether two variable move in the same direction (positive), if the variables move in opposite direction (negative), whether the variables remain consist, or change at least once (curvilinear), or shows no change between two variables (no relationship).

According to Cozy and Bates they listed the differences as following:

Positive Linear Relationship

In a positive linear relationship, increases in the values of one variable are accompanied by increases in the values of the second variable (p. 76).

Negative Linear Relationship

In a negative linear relationship, increase in the values of one variable are accompanied by decreases in the values of the other variable (p. 77).

Curvilinear Relationship

In a curvilinear relationship, increases in the values of one variable are accompanied by systematic increases and decreases in the values of the other variable. In other words, the direction of the relationship changes at least once (p.78).

No Relationship

When there is no relationship between the two variables, the graph is simply a flat line.

Please identify and cite one federal statute that regulates pornography on the internet, and also summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that statute accomplishes (please also post the hyperlink to the statute).

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1. Please identify and cite one federal statute that regulates pornography on the internet, and also summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that statute accomplishes (please also post the hyperlink to the statute).

2. Please identify and cite one state statute that regulates pornography on the internet and summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that statute accomplishes (please also post the hyperlink to the statute).

3. Please identify and cite one federal court case that influences online gambling, and also briefly summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that court case accomplishes (please also post the hyperlink to the case summary).

4. Please identify and cite one state court case that influences online gambling, and also briefly summarize (in not less than 100 words) what that court case accomplishes (please also post the hyperlink to the case summary)

Develop a feasibility study that examines the potential impact of this module’s technologies on a business in the industry described above

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 A large retail food chain wants to leverage any advantage it can get based on this module’s technologies, especially as they could be applied to areas such as user connectivity, business processes, and management applications. Management has asked you to develop a feasibility study that analyzes the potential of the technology.

Develop a feasibility study that examines the potential impact of this module’s technologies on a business in the industry described above. Use the resources and templates introduced on the Feasibility and SWOT Analysis page in Module 01 as a guide. Your submission should be:

  • grammatically correct and free from spelling errors
  • written in a professional tone
  • a minimum of 1000 words in length

Your completed feasibility study should contain the following elements, with section-headings clearly indicated:

  • Title Page
  • Executive Summary
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Purpose / Scope
  • History
  • Methodology (including SWOT Analysis)
  • Current Systems and Processes / Environment
  • Issues
  • Assumptions and Constraints
  • Objectives
  • Alternatives
  • Comparison of Alternatives
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations
  • References
  • Appendixes

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