There are many reasons to have ethical practices in a business; your employees would essentially do whatever that wanted‚ without any regard for punishment. This is why most companies have policies and procedures that are in place to keep employees focused and accountable. First‚ sexual harassment/harassment in the work-place‚ rules have been set in place to keep this from happening‚ and to be able to hold the harasser accountable for their actions. Secondly‚ code of conduct‚ the way you dress may
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Discuss and illustrate the classifications of ethical issues discussed in the text. According to the textbook‚ Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases‚ an ethical issue is “a problem‚ situation‚ or opportunity that requires an individual‚ group‚ or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong‚ ethical or unethical” (Ferrell 65). There are fifteen basic classifications of ethical issues in business that can be broken down into three categories
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January 14‚ 2013 Ethical Behavior in Business In the business world employers and business owners should know that there is no room to be dishonest‚ or greedy dealing with a business. In reality people need to be held responsible and accountable for making sure that they are holding up and following ethical business practices. There is no reason that any business owner or manager should not follow the golden rule at work just like they would at home‚ treat people the way you want
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responsibility to conduct business in a way that is not harmful and which positively benefits as many people as possible and themselves. Although this sounds simple‚ it is easier said than done! as there will always be a conflict of interest between various groups of people. Any decisions made by businesses need to be made with an informed awareness of the specific situation and then act according to some sort of system of principals which is Business Ethics. Business ethics are the key to profits
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A Business Ethical Duty: Social Responsibility Joe McClendon Western Governors University A community business has a social responsibility to its local community‚ its employees have an ethical duty their employer‚ and management has business responsibility to act in the best interest of stakeholders. Company Q is a small local grocery store chain located in a major metropolitan area. The company is struggling internally with ethical integrity and social responsibility. Company Q’s ethical
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Ethical Behavior in Business Ethical Behavior in Business Ethical behavior refers to behaviors that are appropriate. Ethical behaviors are based on morals. An ethical behavior is considered the right way to behave. It involves selecting the right from wrong. People have to conform to the standards set by the organization by choosing what is right and what is wrong. Business ethics is a kind of applied ethics or professional ethics that is aimed at examining the ethical
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make additional acquisitions‚ support its $30 billion debt‚ as well as allow executives to cash in on their stock options. The final reason why people participate in unethical behavior is because the company culture puts the bottom line ahead of ethical behavior. This is exactly what happened at Enron. Enron had a program called “rank and yank.” In the “rank and yank” process your performance is evaluated yearly and if you are ranked the 15-20 percent lowest ranking employees you are let go or encouraged
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Employee Behavior From large corporations to small businesses‚ individuals involved in all types of business often face ethical issues stemming from employee behavior. For example‚ whether an employee can spend work time checking personal email accounts‚ how a manager deals with claims of harassment and to what extent a manager can "groom" a certain employee for a promotion are all examples of ethical issues regarding employee behavior. There are legal consequences for some unethical employee behavior
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be discussing Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) using Anglo-American and Primark case studies as examples. First‚ I will discuss what is meant by ethical business behavior. Second‚ I will discuss how Anglo-American and Primark apply ethics into their business practices. Third‚ I will discuss what the costs and benefits are to an organization when they behave ethically. Finally‚ I will choose one component from Svennson & Woods’ model from “A Model of Business Ethics”‚ and
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? When people doing business‚ they may use different ethical standards other than what we use in daily life. The majority businessmen manage their business legally; however‚ not all legal business is ethical. I do not think that business bluffing is ethical. I will provide three arguments in following paragraphs which are based on theories of groupthink‚ consequentialist and duties to support my position. First of all‚ according to the theory of duties
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