Giving a sense of how to do business responsibly for all parties
Needs to give a sense of responsibility to all SH
Are all parties who have interests in the company
They have competing and different interests
Why people are concerned and impact of corruption
White collar crime
Enron
Corruption means a lack of ethics
Has a negative impact on the economy.
Impact on employees and shareholders because loss of income.
Communities can be affected when companies violate environmental standards.
70% of people feel that corruption negatively affects the economy.
When people do not believe in the company, they don’t invest.
Many employees doubt all CEOs.
They believe that CEOs are only out to get benefit for themselves and not the company or the workers.
Loss in productivity.
40% of employees see that executives don’t set good standards and these employees in turn are not ethical.
Benefits of creating more ethical environment
Promoting ethics is important to avoid scandals and creating better working environment
Leads to more profit
Attract better employees
More satisfied
More productive
How to do this
Develop an ethics program
Written code of ethics
Communicated to all employees
Train employees and examine how people follow this code
Surveys show that people are more likely to report ethical problems with such programs
Ethics classes in business classes.
Employees will lose jobs if the companies go bankrupt due to scandals and shareholders will lose money.
DY Listening Practice - Extra All DY students have difficulty with their listening ability when they first start at YUELI. It’s just a fact. Those who improve more quickly take every opportunity to practice both listening and either discussing what they have heard, answering comprehension questions or writing notes as they listen. Every student that does this throughout the course improves much more rapidly.
Here is a link to a good listening site that has both audio and video to listen to with comprehension questions that you can answer to see how much you are hearing. Practice makes perfect!!!! http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/index.html www.google.com
This needs to become your new best friend. Google is a wonderful search engine that can help you find almost anything that you need to work on in YUELI. You just need to know the name of what you are working on and you can find free activities and exercises for extra practice.
Here’s how it works:
Go to www.google.com and type in the name of what you want to work on. For example, “Listening exercises”
Now this will get you to a very large list that will not be very helpful but when you add the magic words it works better. If you type in, “FreeESL Listening Exercises” (or “activities” or “practice”)
This will get you to a list of free sites that have practice on them.
Remember! You can repeat this for any grammar points you are having trouble with as well. “FreeESL subject verb agreement Exercises” “FreeESL word form Exercises”
The internet through Google is a great resource. Remember, if any site pops-up a window asking you to click anything or to give information about yourself, skip it and find one that is really free.
Chapter 5 Practice
Chapter 5 Lecture
DY Listening Practice - Extra
All DY students have difficulty with their listening ability when they first start at YUELI. It’s just a fact. Those who improve more quickly take every opportunity to practice both listening and either discussing what they have heard, answering comprehension questions or writing notes as they listen. Every student that does this throughout the course improves much more rapidly.
Here is a link to a good listening site that has both audio and video to listen to with comprehension questions that you can answer to see how much you are hearing. Practice makes perfect!!!!
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/index.html
www.google.com
This needs to become your new best friend. Google is a wonderful search engine that can help you find almost anything that you need to work on in YUELI. You just need to know the name of what you are working on and you can find free activities and exercises for extra practice.
Here’s how it works:
Go to www.google.com and type in the name of what you want to work on. For example,
“Listening exercises”
Now this will get you to a very large list that will not be very helpful but when you add the magic words it works better. If you type in,
“Free ESL Listening Exercises” (or “activities” or “practice”)
This will get you to a list of free sites that have practice on them.
Remember! You can repeat this for any grammar points you are having trouble with as well.
“Free ESL subject verb agreement Exercises”
“Free ESL word form Exercises”
The internet through Google is a great resource. Remember, if any site pops-up a window asking you to click anything or to give information about yourself, skip it and find one that is really free.