Effects of Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom

Business Ethics is described as a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in the current business environment. In the ever-increasingly focused marketplace the demand for more-ethical business actions, dealings and procedures are becoming more evident and required. The need for “Business Ethics” has taken on several different disciplines within the marketplace in light of many corporate dealings that have left the public stranded in the wake of crumbled corporations due to unlawful and unethical behaviors. The struggles by corporations come with notion of perform or be classified by the marketplace as a “poor performer”. In reviewing ethical behavior in business is become very clear on how the balance of ethical behavior in business can be very easily become a disaster in wake of commonsense decisions gone wrong. This research paper is based on decisions being made in unethically manners that in the long run caused three of the largest corporate scandals of Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom.
Before filing for bankruptcy in 2001, Enron Corporation was one of the largest integrated natural gas and electricity companies in the world. It marketed natural gas liquids worldwide and operated one of the largest natural gas transmission systems in the world, totaling more than 36,000 miles. It was also one of the largest independent developers and producers of electricity in the world, serving both industrial and emerging markets. Enron began as a pipeline company in Houston in 1985. It profited by promising to deliver so many cubic feet to a particular utility or business on a particular day at a market price. That change came with the deregulation of electrical power markets, a change due in part to lobbying from senior Enron officials. Under the direction of former Chairman Kenneth L. Lay, Enron expanded into an energy broker, trading electricity and other commodities. Enron became a giant middleman that worked like a