Ethical Behavior of Dan Amos of American Family Life Insurance Company (AFLAC) American Family Life Insurance Company (AFLAC)‚ a Fortune 500 company‚ and their Chief Executive Officer (CEO)‚Dan Amos‚ were recently recognized by Ethiosphere Magazine as the World’s Most Ethical Company for the fourth consecutive year (Aflac Named Most Ethical Company for Fourth Consecutive Year‚ March 2013). This award is given to companies who demonstrate a commitment to ethical leadership‚ corporate social responsibility
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Why is it important for top managers to ensure that organizational culture supports ethical conduct and social responsibility?? In today’s society people don’t always do what’s right. They may know that doing certain things will cause greater consequences that they would like but still do it anyways. It is the top managers responsibility to ensure that the organizational culture supports ethical conduce and social responsibility because they are who the team members look to for guidance
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Improving Ethical Behavior Improving Ethical Behavior is a task that many companies recently have begun to strive to achieve. Ethical behavior is behavior that is morality based and demonstrated by choosing the right way to behave‚ think‚ act‚ etc. It is characterized by honesty‚ equality‚ and shows consistency in personal values. In the professional/work world‚ it is characterized by fairness and equity and the ability to do what is right‚ even when most others are doing what is wrong.
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Final Paper: Ethical Behavior in the Workplace Mirinda Frazier SOC 402 Instructor Dana Rock 6/25/2012 Ethical Behavior in the Workplace An organization should perform with ethical conduct at all times- this means that both the employers and employees must act respectably throughout all the various dimensions of business practice and transactions with consistent ethicality. Good business ethics are vital for the success of any organization‚ and should be established from the very beginning;
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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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Essay: “what are advantages and disadvantages of ethical behavior in business?” Business Ethics Some commentators‚ such as Milton Friedman‚ believe that the "primary and only responsibility of business is to make money" while abiding by the law. Supporters of this point of view argue that companies’ self-interested pursuit of profit benefits the whole of society. Profitable businesses clearly benefit shareholders‚ but other commentators‚ such as Edward Freeman‚ argue that businesses should also
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confuses many in term of its meaning. Different people give meaning to the term in the wrong manner leading to the adoption of bad acts in society. This assignment will discuss the issue regarding what constitutes ethics and what does not constitute ethics. Besides‚ examples of ethical and unethical behavior will be discussed. Ethics can be defined as the basic fundamental principles and concepts of upright human conduct. It entails the study of universal values like the vital equality of women and
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for celebration‚ work on the Feldstet contract was completed February 16‚ three days ahead of February 19 scheduled completion date ‚ 8 When the digital exchange was installed at Multiple Industries‚ eight lines were left unused for anticipated staff expansion and also so for providing dedicated lines for a planned facsimile transmission network between branches. 9 The overhead steam pipe ruptured at 10:10 a.m.‚ damaging the computer equipment and oak furniture. Fortunately‚ the office was empty
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which you could afford. What would you do? In this case‚ I choose the letter a answer: tell the janitor thanks‚ but no thanks. Since high school‚ I know myself that I’m not good at cheating in the exam; therefore‚ this is never a good choice helping me to pass the exam. This situation is a common one. What I would do is making appointments with my instrument and asking him/her for help. For a person who is studying for scholarship‚ I believe that they are responsible for what they are doing. If they
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Problem: Recent ethical scandals have brought ethical behavior in organizations to the forefront of public consciousness. The general public‚ the government‚ and businesses alike began to question the importance of ethics. Today‚ after learning from the past and understanding the role that ethics plays in running a business‚ the question is no longer whether ethics is important‚ but how to maintain ethical behavior in an organization when often times the lines of ethics are blurry and poorly defined
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