Business Ethics Across Cultures
| Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review | | Instructor | | 8/1/2010 |
While researching business ethics across cultures, we discovered some of the same behaviors surrounding ethics in the United States is the same across the ocean. Outlined in this document will be the positive and negative side of business ethics. Explained will be the ethical perspective of corporate social responsibility and ethical conflicts. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) will show how a community has embraced ethical responsibility, while ethical conflicts will show the dangers surrounding unchecked ethical conduct. First, published by Save the Children, in 2010, children of Latin America and South Asia explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its impact on families and communities. Boys and girls felt that companies have responsibilities in their working and business areas to promote their image as socially responsible actors in society. Companies are doing business and gaining profits by selling their product in the community. They should therefore support community development activities such as health centers, emergency response, school and recreational facilities, environmental initiatives and training facilities for the betterment of the people, especially for the children in their own community. The children also recognized the connection between society and business. Where a business needs a healthy society and work force for its growth; a healthy society in-turn needs successful companies to create jobs, increase wealth and to improve the standards of living and social conditions. For this reason businesses should care about children and children’s rights by creating social awareness on different issues such as adolescent health, education, cleanliness, balanced nutrition and so on. To the contrary, firms in Beijing, China have been ethically compromising for what seems like centuries. One company in particular, Google, has made a
While researching business ethics across cultures, we discovered some of the same behaviors surrounding ethics in the United States is the same across the ocean. Outlined in this document will be the positive and negative side of business ethics. Explained will be the ethical perspective of corporate social responsibility and ethical conflicts. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) will show how a community has embraced ethical responsibility, while ethical conflicts will show the dangers surrounding unchecked ethical conduct. First, published by Save the Children, in 2010, children of Latin America and South Asia explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its impact on families and communities. Boys and girls felt that companies have responsibilities in their working and business areas to promote their image as socially responsible actors in society. Companies are doing business and gaining profits by selling their product in the community. They should therefore support community development activities such as health centers, emergency response, school and recreational facilities, environmental initiatives and training facilities for the betterment of the people, especially for the children in their own community. The children also recognized the connection between society and business. Where a business needs a healthy society and work force for its growth; a healthy society in-turn needs successful companies to create jobs, increase wealth and to improve the standards of living and social conditions. For this reason businesses should care about children and children’s rights by creating social awareness on different issues such as adolescent health, education, cleanliness, balanced nutrition and so on. To the contrary, firms in Beijing, China have been ethically compromising for what seems like centuries. One company in particular, Google, has made a
References: Dean, J. (2010, January 13). Ethical Conflicts for Firms in China. Asia Technology. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com Kapell, A., & Lindvall, M. (2010). Save the Children. Corporate Social Responsibility, (), . Retrieved from http://reports-and-material.org