683 words

Managing ethical conflicts between business objectives and personal values

In business there will often be times that the organizational goals will come into conflict, with the personal values of the individual.

~4 min read

View paper →

961 words

Profit maximization versus ethical behavior in business

Ethical behavior is part of the everyday life, as it is essential for ethics to be present so as to impose control over society. Not only is business a domain where ethics is required, but it one of the foremost fields needing moral principles.

~5 min read

View paper →

870 words

Four ethical principles in business practice: autonomy, beneficence, justice, and accountability

Generally, ethics consists of four types of conceptual concerns: Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice, and Non-malfeasance (Hursthouse, 2005; Mihaly, 2007).

~5 min read

View paper →

405 words

The gap between legal conduct and ethical conduct in business

The Toys "R" Us case is just one isolated example of the substantial gap between the limits of the conduct that is actually prohibited by formal law and violations of fundamental principles of ethics in modern business.

~3 min read

View paper →

1,377 words

Global software development teams: ethics and knowledge management

The stresses of knowledge transfer and knowledge management are especially prevalent in the software industry. The time and cost pressures of global software development amplify and make more challenging the issues of globalization affecting every high technology business today.

~7 min read

View paper →

1,843 words

Ethical conduct and success in Al Parrish's business career

It is often heard that someone stepped on corpses to get to a higher position. The basic translation of this statement is that good things are difficult to come by and that most of the individuals in high places might have, at one time or the other, gotten their hands dirty for the greater personal…

~10 min read

View paper →

1,524 words

Ethical leadership and corporate accountability in American business

There is substantial evidence of a lack of ethical behavior in the business world and if the buck stops at the top of a company, then the business leaders of the U.S.

~8 min read

View paper →

425 words

Ethical business practices improve financial performance and profitability

Most people agree that businesses are and should be driven by motivations for profit. Some believe that behaving ethically will limit a company's ability to make money.

~3 min read

View paper →

994 words

Ethical egoism and normative theory in business practice

Ethical Egoist- Egoism can be either descriptive or normative. Descriptive egoism holds that for each individual, there is only one ultimate aim -- survival and the betterment of the sole individual based on their own hierarchical principles.

~5 min read

View paper →

2,411 words

Best Medical Supply Company's code of business conduct

The Code of Business Conduct covers a wide range of business practices and procedures of a medium sized company producing medical supply. The company's name is "Best Medical Supply Company Inc."(BMSC).

~13 min read

View paper →