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Redefining ethics and management in organizational decision-making

Josep M. Lozano conducted a research using analysis of several studies on the topic of Business Ethics with a view to examine the controversial issue relating to ethics and management.

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The ethics of organizational downsizing and employee welfare

A variety of business practices and events over the past several decades have led to an increasing scrutiny of many different applications and incarnations of business ethics, from a variety of academic, philosophical, and pragmatic perspectives.

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Corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership in modern business

Business leadership and ethics should be joined at the hip, should be effectively partnering in every company and organization, but unfortunately for some companies, for their employees, their stakeholders and customers, ethics plays only a secondary role.

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Corporate ethics and governance following the Enron scandal

In the rapidly changing business environment and all the industries suffering from very tight competition and numerous problems in the economies of different countries, it is vital for the business environment to work out the global morals and ethics which could be applied to any company operating…

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Manager ethics and shareholder wealth tradeoffs

Ethics in business has become a hot button issue in recent years, in light of a number of scandals in the early 2000s, but also with the whole issue of corporate social responsibility.

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Distinguishing legal ethics from professional responsibility standards

Legal ethics and business ethics are alike in that they dictate, either by law or general standard, what is acceptable and what is not. They are different in that legal ethics are usually ensconced in laws and other enforceable standards whereas business ethics are not always a matter of law.

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Ethical challenges in modern business corporations and history

Ethics in business has always seemed to be a struggle, because the main purpose of a business is to turn a profit, and for some businesspeople, that may be at any cost.

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FedEx's system of inquiry for investigating ethics code violations

FedEx's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available in pdf format at http://fdx.client.shareholder.com/common/download/download.cfm?companyid=FDX&fileid=138778&filekey=6b957b1f-ac83-4b37-835b-8b24e63b338f&filename=code.pdf

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Ethical business practices at Greyston Bakery

The importance of business ethics has been sharply and repeatedly highlighted by many event s over the past decade or so, from the series of scandals at the turn of the century (Enron, WorldCom, etc.) to the more recent financial meltdown precipitated by nefarious lending practices and trick…

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Ethical issues in modern business: causes and prevalence

Ethics may be termed as the inner guiding moral principles, values and beliefs people use to indicate and identify what is acceptable and appropriate behavior whilst straying away from the opposite (Jones, 2007).

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