Write a 12 page essay on Sustainale management futures.

Apparently, the author argued that business and ethics are two contradictory notions that have been brought together. Nonetheless, growing corporate malpractices has highlighted demand of corporate or business ethics significantly.

Crane and Matten (2010) defined business ethics as assessment of a particular business situation or activity or decision that involve moral dilemma related to right and wrong. In business ethics, moral correctness is stress upon instead of commercially, strategically and financially correctness. Although there are several instances of violation of business ethics, one of the greatest scandals from gas and oil industry has been selected for evaluation with respect to two ethical theories. The paper will evaluate incident of Gulf Oil Spill by British Petroleum (BP) in the lights of Utilitarianism theory and Kant’s Ethics of duties or deontology theory.

The oil and gas industry has been considered for evaluation of ethical crisis in business because this industry is one of the essential sectors from the perspective of economic development and environmental impact. The United States alone consist of 24.7 percent of global oil share while accommodating other subsectors such as exploration and production of oil and gas. Significant oil and gas reserved in the nation has attracted several global players such as British Petroleum (Marketline, 2012a. Marketline, 2014). Oil spill is often considered as an unavoidable situation in the process of drilling and extraction but the situation can cause havoc if goes uncontrolled. Two such critical examples are spill by Exxon Valdez in the gulf coast of Alaska and BP spill at the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to discussing the spill and its ethical consequences, brief introduction regarding BP Plc has been provided in the following section (Hanson, 2014).

BP Plc was founded in 1901 and currently, it is considered as one of the largest oil and gas

1 One effective way to

 begin an introduction is to A and B only

give the audience an compliment.

tell a joke off the top of your head.

make a personal reference

2 One of the best conclusions to use for a speech on complicated subject matter is

 a challenge

a summary

an end question

a quotation

3 One practice to avoid when developing your speaking notes it to

 use as many note cards as possible

double space items in the outline

number them in the upper right corner

use all capitals for emphasis

4 One thing you should not do when using statistics is to

draw conclusions from them.

round them off.

use as many of them as possible.

relate them to meaningful concepts.

5 One way to be concrete

none of the above.

is to use connotation rather than denotation.

all of the above

is to employ euphemisms.

is to use flowery language.

6 The following thesis statement indicates that the body of the speech will contain _______________ numerals. “Abraham Lincoln’s speeches appealed to the emotions of listeners, conveyed a strong sense of leadership, and were suited to the complicated political setting of the times.”

 five

three

two

four

7 The main points of a speech entitled, “How to make a Greek dessert known as baklava,” would most likely be arranged according to _______________ sequence.

topic

chronological

cause-effect

spatial