Day: August 28, 2010

  • Hoarding: Syndrome or Symptom

    Until a few years ago, a person who was known to collect cats would have been called “the crazy cat person”, houses that were filled with stuff were referred to as “cluttered, filthy, or a pen sty.” Today, those expressions have been replaced with the terms: “hoarder or compulsive hoarding”. What is hoarding? Hoarding is…

  • Business Ethics: Why are they important?

    To answer the question of why business ethics are important, one must understand what is meant by the term business ethics. “Ethics involves the study of moral issues and choices” (Kinicki & Kreitner, 23). To simplify this would be to say that business ethics are the code of values and principles that control the actions…