Business Ethics

Ethically Sourced Flowers

Flowers epitomise emotion and can have a very beneficial impact on people. Wouldn?t it be even better if people were able to confidently buy sustainable, ethically-sourced flowers to communicate their feelings? This article highlights the importance of buying ethically sourced flowers, while detailing the European initiative, Fair Flowers Fair Plants.



Community Vs. The Loner

I am sure that you have heard the phrase “safety in numbers” before. In the animal world, creatures travel in groups because they instinctively know that, when there are many of them, predators have less of a chance of being successful during an attack. In the small business world, the entrepreneur is the animal who has wandered away from the herd.


Are Employers Less Likely to Hire Muslims?

conducted at Davenport University by Murad Ali indicates that Muslims are the least likely out of all other ethnic groups to be hired by employers. Participants were students enrolled in either the MBA program or in business undergraduate courses. The type of full-time work the students engaged in ranged from entry level to senior executive. Many of the MBA students were already managers and had hiring powers within their companies.



Anarchy as an Organizing Principle

The recent spate of accounting fraud scandals signals the end of an era. Disillusionment and disenchantment with American capitalism may yet lead to a tectonic ideological shift from laissez faire and self regulation to state intervention and regulation. This would be the reversal of a trend dating back to Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental – and way more ancient – tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt.