please talk about the importance of ethics in today's business world.?
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the best way is to search online for business ethics articles, there is a tremndous no. of articles.\ngo to google search and type: business ethics filetype:doc\nand you will find plenty of articles that answers ur question.
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Business in our society today is often a word used to validate what would be considered outside the business world as very negative behavior.  Take Wal-Mart for example: uses slave labor, helps to destroy the environment and downtowns, treats the employees like dirt, and produces cheap plastic crap.  But it’s just business you know.  That saying is being used a lot lately for immoral behavior.   To me business should mean what you’re doing in the world to make it run smoother and give yourself a place in functional healthy society.  Not the dictionary definition, but I didn’t think you were asking for that.
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There are certainly ethical issues with the advertising industry. It is by its very nature designed to subvert people's will and cause them to act in the interest of the advertiser and not in their own interest.\n\nModern advertising techniques were created in Nazi Germany in Hitler's propaganda ministry. It included cinematic techniques such as those developed by Leni Reifenstahl's 'The Power of The Will', which lionized Hitler. The Nazi propaganda worked so well that in 1945, the Americans took their research and put it to work on Madison Avenue. In the same way they also took Nazi rocket technology and scientists, and used them to go to the Moon.\n\nThe point of designing a good effective advertisement is to direct the viewer's attention, arguably to misdirect it. While I enjoyed creating advertising for clients who made good products, you can't realistically make a living restricting your clientele. Eventually, I moved into the technical end of printing where I was happier.
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no, although ethics is taught in every business curriculum, there are people that will still (when the opportunity presents itself) ensure corporate scandals. \n\nI think a better way would be to have an outside company audit companies more frequently.
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Absolutely. We need some form of ethical direction in our lives.
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One of the backbones of any organization is the reliability of their members, whether those members are employees of a company, office holders in a political party or volunteers in a charity.\n\nSome recent examples of lack of ethics that affected major organizations are the sex scandals surrounding Catholic priests and Congressmen, corporate officers greed in the Enron Corp. and misuse of 9/11 funds by the Red Cross.\n\nTherefore, every organization must have it members adhere to strict ethical standards or risk negative effects of publicity.  This is especially true of organization that are ordinarily targets of political or media attention.
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Repeat business is important to everyone. Unethical business practices means no clientelle base. It could also mean jail time.
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Wow.  Business ethics in a society with a totalitarian government?  That's tough.  \n\nIf you ever find yourself forced to do business in a country with a totalitarian government, here are three general rules to remember:  \n\n1.) Know that society's real power structure from top to bottom, and act accordingly.  \n- Many totalitarian governments have "puppets" or figureheads that act as masks or mere gatekeepers to those who really call the shots.  \n- Then you've got those annoying little middle-men in the power structure who control only a small aspect of the government / society, but who are keys to the success of your business if you are able to evade or placate them.\n- When you can, announce to the country's general public that your company's success has been due to the benevolence of the present regime.  You gain a favorable reputation in the government's eyes. \n\n2.)  Be well prepared for the cost of effectively evading or placating this power structure, and make allowances for it in your business operating cost.  When I say cost, I don't mean just time, money, manpower --- I mean the sweat and moral convictions that might be lost along the way.\n\n3.) Do not deal with the government any more than you have to, or you will be in over your head.  Remember that totalitarian governments are always exhaustingly bureaucratic, and frequently corrupt. \n\nI know these rules sound nasty. But if for any reason you (or your business partners / directors) are unwilling or unable to work by these rules, do not attempt doing business in that country at all. (Or if you're just a company employee, ask to be reassigned somewhere else.)
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Accounting ethics is to direct accountants to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their job. Hence, accounting fraud (mispricing or mis-stating financial items in business balance sheets or other accounting books) is an example of what 'accounting ethics' try to avoid.
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The tone of the office is set by the leader.  If you don't have an ethical leader you can still behave in an ethical manner and maybe people will see that is the fair way to do things and they will follow suit. Then maybe you will find it.
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I don't believe there should be a date and time stamp on things of this nature.  If you do that then you're saying that at this date and time your openion might have been accepted.  Ethics involves personal questions, which no matter what the thought, good or bad, it will still be wrong to some portion of the population.  Ethics is an individual issue, they should be dealt with on an individual basis, not in a public forum.  You will never convince a person to think different when they are out numbered and backed against a wall.
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YES, Morals are your belief system. Ethics are our populas/public view of how things should be or are which ever the case.
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i.t.industry has an association for its professionals and they have instituted their own ethics for their members. PS. i have little faith in ethics as recommended by professional associations -- since their main interest is to protect and enhance the interest of their membership. a case in point is the legal profession --yes, they have work ethics -- but try to fight the billing of a lawyer -- and you end up in their associations -- and (while statistics are not made public) in 99 p.cent of the cases the lawyer gets its due. That is a case off your direct question but it gives you an idea for whom the bell tolls! Hope it helps.
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wow there's some ppl way off on this one! when partners team up in business they form articles of ethical behavior aside from corporate bylaws. US ethic laws are also inclusive to personal behavior off or on the clock doesn't even come into play. read the ethics codes for lawyers & real estate brokers. Hopefully, you have it in writing as you should, (and even if you dont) and the conduct is egregious to "good will" environment of your company's public face or violates it's ethics policies, holding hands or PDAs etc. have them removed from the partnership or do a forced buy out. what ppl do on or off is not out of scrutiny when youre in the public trust. ENRON \nsay a president who has sex with an intern commits purgery and corrupts the oath of office. they cannot be defended just bc they were on personal time. when a priest, is off the clock that doesn't mean its ok to be on a boy. and their defense its private time, or they misunderstood the bible passage " and He, came into town riding a young ass" is no excuse. private acts affect others, lives and livelihood.
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You've hit a nerve with me on this question as I'm currently dealing with just such a question.  Business is business and the number one priority is to provide a profit, however when corporate greed takes such a priority over even the most basic ethics, it has gone too far.  \n\nWe have discovered that Meineke Car Care knowingly sold a convicted sex offender (Rape) a franchise.  When contacted about this, they put in WRITING that they not only knew about his conviction but don't feel it's a problem because it happened in the 90's.  WHAT are these people thinking?  Doesn't a company have an obligation NOT to put their customers in the position on handing over their personal info & keychains or taking a ride home from a convicted sex offender?  Did the recent lawsuits about the attacks on a customer and employee at Walmart & McDonalds teach companies anything?  At least they had the luxury of not knowing the employees history. How could Meineke defend this?
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"Doing the right thing" as you worded it - means you are doing the right thing!  You answered your own question without realising it!\n\nI believe integrity is more important than loyalty.  Difficult one though.
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Stakeholder management like all forms of management have ethical responsibilities.\n\nIn Stakeholder management the diverse range of stakeholders should have a better respresentation of the effects of a decision than a pure top down management.