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Business
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Ethics refers to the moral principles or values that generally govern the conduct of an individual or a goup. Ethics also can be viewed as the standard of behavior by which conduct is judged. Standards that are legal may not always be ethical, and vice versa. Laws are the values and standards enforceable by the courts. Ethics are personal rather than societal moral principles and values. Business Ethics is the application of moral standards to business situations.
Types
of ethical concerns that arise in the business world:
Ethical issues arise often in business situations out of relationships with investors, customers, employees, creditors, or competitors. Business people should make every effort to be fair, to consider the welfare of customers and others within the firm, to avoid conflict of interest, and to communicate honestly.
Factors
that affect the level of ethical behavior in organizations:
Individual, social, and opportunity factors all affect the level of ethical behavior in an organization. Individual factors include knowledge level, moral values, attitudes, and personal goals. Social factors include cultural norms, actions, and values of coworkers. Opportunity factors refer to the amount of leeway that exists in an organization for employees to behave unethically if they so choose.
How
ethical decision making can be encouraged?:
Governments, trade associations, and individual firms can all establish guidelines for defining ethical behavior: Governments can pass stricter regulations. Trade associations provide ethical guidelines for their members. Companies provide codes of ethics, written guides to acceptable and ethical behavior as defined by an organization, and create an atmosphere in which ethical behavior is encouraged. An ethical employee working in an unethical environment may resort to whistle blowing to bring a questionable practice to light.
Two
views on social responsibility of business:
The basic premise of the economic model of social responsibility is that society benefits most when business is left alone to produce profitable goods and services. According to the socio-economic model, business has as much responsibility to society as it has to its owners. Most managers adopt a view point somewhere between these two extremes.
Basic
steps a business must take to implement a program of social responsibility:
A program to implement social responsibility in a business begins with total commitment by top management. The program should be carefully planned, and a capable director should be appointed to implement it. Social audits should be prepared periodically as means of evaluating and revising the program. Programs may be funded through federal incentives or through price increases.
[Source= Business ( Book, fifth-edition). Chapter #2 Ethics and Social Responsibility, page 32-59. Author= William M. Pride (Texas A&M University), Robert J. Hughes (Dallas County Community College), and Jack R. Kapoor (College of DuPage) Copyright © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved].
Why should business be ethical?, ethical standards which apply in business context, ethical decisions... |
Ethical climate, performance incentives, communications, complience... |
EIBE's ethics programme, research, awareness, assessment, ajustment, and accountability. |
The costs of a poor ethical environment. The process of moulding the organization's ethical environment. |
What value can a business ethics approach add to good management? We all believe we behave ethically anyway. Why should we tell the world about it?. |
"Eye for Integrity" looks at the ethics issues facing organizations today, helping them find ways to work that are good business as well as good ethics. |
There have always been questions raised about the ways people behave on the market place. Business ethics' characteristics. |
To compete effectively in today's market, global companies must ensure their codes of conduct are culturally coherent to all employees. |
Today's business ethics environment, what is the business ethics process?, and ethical climate. |
Obeying the law is good business, but companies face the prospect of coming a cropper unless they have a well-designed and effectively implemented compliance program. |
Limits
to the Social Responsibility of Business:
A well known quotation appears on the back of each issue of the journal of an association of progressive business executives seeking a re sponsible role for business in society. |
The
Long Trail Protection Campaign:
An overview, how to contribute, 265-Mile club, map of land ownership, the status of the trail, today recent long trail acquistions, and a special story. |
Esso
Australia:
Esso make available two scholarships based on academic achievement to Koorie students. Value: $2000 each. |
IBM Corporate
Social Responsibility Program in Pakistan:
Social and economic challenges facing developing countries can be handled effectively by the collective efforts of government, the corporate sector and the voluntary agencies. |
For further research and information about the topic, feel to browse these following web sites, or in your near library look for information in the following book's titled: Ethics at Work (Author: Caderblom, J. B.. Belmont, California.:Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1990. 328p. 24cm.), and Ethics in Business and Labor (Author: Hess, J. Daniel, 1937. Introduction by H. Ralph Hernley. Scottdale. Pa: Herald Press, c1977. 85p. 20cm.)
Ethics & Integrity, The Ethics Center, Univ. of South Florida, Markula Center for Applied Ethics, and many more.... |
Business ethics teaching society, business ethics resources on the web, and ethical business. |
Discussion forum in business ethics, discussion forum in business and values, and reports on Nike's overseas business activity. |
Cases for ethics training, itroduction, case studies, and script for cases for ethics training. |
1998 Business ethics fortnight information, 1998 LMU run for the bay information, and 1996 business ethics fortnight report excerpts. |
Better business bureau, business enterprise trust, institute for business & professional ethics. |
Dear Lecturer: The topic "Social Responsibility" was not covered very well in this web page, and I personally suggest you to do more research in this area. You might look for information about it in your home town's library, consult an expert in the field, or search for more information in the internet.
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