Required Assignment #1
Based upon what you have been guided through so far, answer the following with short essays using the appropriate elements of our VCR approach to ethics. When you have completed these, post them to your group discussion board.
 
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In your view, what practice of Enron was the most objectionable? Use our VCR approach to justify your position. What can be done to insure that other companies will not engage in such a practice in the future?

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What specific legal provision do you believe Enron or Arthur Andersen has violated? How have they done so and what evidence is there that laws have been broken?

 

3. For many observers, the Enron case exemplifies the problem of dysfunctional values. What values stand behind the practices of Enron and Arthur Andersen and how are they objectionable? Can organizations do anything to inculcate more desirable values?