Enron Essays

Imagine a future day when you are happily preparing to retire, receiving your retirement fund statement and witnessing the growth of your dedicated savings over time. Finally, your savings are about to be recognized as they deserve.

According to Johnson (2012) leaders are powerful role models, and policies will have a little effect if leaders do not follow the rules they set. In Enron case, corruption and ethical misconduct were deeply embedded in their business culture where profitability was more important than ethics. In this paper, I will address the factors that […]

1. Given strong profit growth, has there been any damage to Baidu.com’s reputation? 2. What would future reputational damage affect, and how could it be measured? 3. What steps could Baidu.com take to restore its reputation, and what challenges will it have to overcome? 4. Governments throughout the world have been slow to react publicly […]

After the Enron scandal and the implementation of the Sarbanes – Oxley Act to protect shareholders, organizations may face both internal and external challenges. These difficulties, as seen in the case of Enron, can be so serious that they force the organization to neglect its moral, ethical, and legal responsibilities in order to safeguard itself. […]

I started to think about what type of a Law or a bill I would do for my policy paper, and it dawned on me after a week of thought and brainstorming that my uncle who was a Software Engineer at Enron had gotten laid off. He never likes to talk about it, but knowing […]

Performance appraisals will always be an intricate part of an organization’s human resources. The Encyclopedia for Business, 2nd ed. defines a performance appraisal as a process by which organizations evaluate employee performance based on preset standards. The main purpose of appraisals is to help managers effectively staff companies and use human resources, and, ultimately, to […]

The Enron top executives Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling have a perverted sense of the function of a person and what brings happiness. According to their speeches to their employees; direct instructions to traders and conversation among the executives what is the most important is money. They violated all the ethical principles in order to […]

‘Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room’ Frauds and financial scandals in the business world were before an Enron’s case and will be after it. That’s in human nature. But a chain of events lead to an enormous shock on the Wall Street and went down in history as one of the biggest business scandals. […]

ENRON’s ACCOUNTING SCANDAL INTRODUCTION: ENRON traces its roots back to Northern Natural Gas Company, which was founded in 1930. In 1979, Inter North Inc. acquired Northern Natural Gas Company and implemented new management. The 1980s saw the US Congress passing deregulation laws for natural gas sales, followed by similar legislation for electricity sales in the […]

The Enron scandal in 2001 remains one of the most notable scandals of this century. Established in 1985 through the merger of two natural gas firms, Enron swiftly became renowned as a highly successful and influential company during the 90s. Yet, it was eventually revealed that Enron had engaged in deceptive practices, leading to significant […]

#1. Based on what you read in this chapter, summarize in one page or less how you would explain Enron’s ethical meltdown. Ethics refers to “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; specifically, the standards you use to decide what your conduct should be (Dessler, 2011). ” Secondly ethical decisions always involve […]

In any organization, there are two types of forces that create dynamism and bring about changes. The first type is intentional, where directors or leaders create strategies, make decisions, and put them into action in order to steer the organization towards its desired goal. The second type is unintended and involuntary, yet these forces can […]