BES401: BUSINESS ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WEEK I - INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS Definition of ethics Ethics is the discipline dealing with what is good or bad‚ or what is right or wrong or specifically with moral duty and obligation. Ethics has been defined as “inquiry into the nature and grounds of morality where the term morality is taken to mean moral judgment‚ standards and rules of conduct. It has also been called the study and philosophy of human conduct with an emphasis on
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Business ethics Name Institution Business Ethics Question 1: What is the moral point of view and why is it important? Does it make sense to say that business people must operate from the perspective of the moral point of view? Why‚ or why not? Answer: Business ethics refers to the study of proper business policies and practices‚ with regards to the potential controversial issues such as corporate governance‚ discrimination‚ bribery among others (Madsen & Shafritz 1990)
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Business Ethics Business ethics is part of today’s society whether you like it or not. There are many things happening in today’s corporate world that needs to be opinioned. Are ethical judgments merely a matter of personal opinion? Yes because we live in a free society I think that most ethical judgments are based on a matter of what you believe in. Everyone has the right to think differently. There will also be similarities and differences in your ethical point of view because of religion
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BUSINESS ETHICS Individual assignment Topic 1: The factors influencing corporate culture I. NATURE AND BACKGROUND OF FIRM: The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest beverage company and is the leading producer and marketer of soft drinks. Today‚ Coca-Cola is consumed throughout the world at the rate of more than 600 million times per day and this figure is continuing to rise. However‚ Coca-Cola is not the sort of company to live on its past glories;
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Running Head: BUSINESS ETHICS Business Ethics Corporate Social Responsibility [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institute] Business Ethics Corporate Social Responsibility Part A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has acquired extensive interest throughout the previous decades‚ even though‚ it is not an innovative concept‚ and it certainly dates back to the early years of 1930‚ as stated by Eric Orts‚ University
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In an era where money is the driving force behind decision making‚ it can be hard for companies to make ethical decisions and thus the problem of bad ethics in business can arise. Although at times it can be difficult to comprehend the importance of companies conducting business ethically‚ the absence of ethics within a company can lead to a whole host of issues. Bad ethical practices can vary from those that break the law to those that break the relationship between a company and its customers.
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Marketing ethics is the area of applied ethics which deals with the moral principles behind the operation and regulation of marketing. Some areas of marketing ethics (ethics of advertising and promotion) overlap with media ethics. Pricing ethics List of unethical pricing practices. Bid rigging is a form of fraud in which a commercial contract is promised to one party even though for the sake of appearance several other parties also present a bid. This form of collusion is illegal in most countries
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businessmen speak eloquently about the “social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system‚” I am reminded of the wonderful line about the Frenchman who discovered at the age of 70 that he had been speaking prose all his life. The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned “merely” with profit but also with promoting desirable “social” ends; that business has a “social conscience” and takes seriously its responsibilities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Topic: Page: 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 2. INTRODUCTION 3 3. RIMS 4 3.1 EVALUATION OF ALL POINTS OF VIEW 4 3.2 IMPLICATIONS 6 3.3 SOLUTION 6 4. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO BUSINESS ETHICS 7 4.1 SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC POSITION 7 4.2 MANAGERIAL POSITION 7 4.3 ORGANISATIONAL INTEREST POSITION 8 4.4 ETHICAL GUIDANCE POSITION 9 4.5 ETHICAL CONTROL POSITION 9 4.6 ETHICAL DEVELOPMENT POSITION 10 5. MYTHS 11 5.1 DOG EAT DOG 11 5.2 IT’S NOT SO SERIOUS 11 5.3 IF YOU
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Definition of Ethics: - * Ethics is a branch of Philosophy Concerned with the Study of what is Good and Bad. * We can also define Ethics as “Ethics are Set of Principles or Rules of Conduct used to help to distinguish between Right and Wrong.” Nature and Scope of Ethics: - * Normative Science deals with Judgments of Value and Positive Science deals with Judgments of Facts. * Ethics is a Normative Science. Its Principal Concern is with Human Conduct in respect of its Relation to
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