Professional Documents
Culture Documents
From this study we will learn that how Values and ethics are central to any organization as
well as daily life. Our actions affect not only ourselves, but also those around us. Many of our
professional decisions involve ethics. If we tell a lie, we can lose someones trust and
undermine our own integrity. If we use shoddy materials or workmanship on the job, we can
jeopardize the safety of others. Questions of morality and ethics can be found at all levels of
society. Ethical behavior is equally important in the workplace as it is in our personal lives.
Everywhere business is conducted, ethics matters. A successful business depends on the trust
of various partiesemployees, managers, executives, customers, suppliers, and even
competitors. Assignment Topic is that Ethical but illegal and Unethical but legal consist
of some examples that explained through Business as well as daily life view point.
INTRODUCTION
3. The INS catches a friend who is an illegal immigrant. You are being kind and supporting
your friends, helping them stay with their naturalized or citizen-by-birth family, but INS
is still technically after part of the family because they were not all born here. Ethical, but
technically illegal.
Consider guns: In many states it is required that one has a permit to carry a concealed
handgun, and some states prohibit is altogether. It is unethical to carry a weapon, but it has
legal consideration.
15% VAT on well organized restaurants: Most of the well organized restaurants charge 15%
VAT on total cost of a consumer. Here 15% VAT charging is unethical but based on
government regulation, it is legal.
License: Some time without any fault a well experience driver has to face public harassment
and get case from traffic police, because of the absence of license. In this case it is an
unethical harassment but case from traffic police is legal.
CONCLUSION
Acting in ways consistent with what society and individuals typically think are good values.
Ethical behavior tends to be good for business and involves demonstrating respect for key
moral principles that include honesty, fairness, equality, dignity, diversity and individual
rights. The behaviors considered unethical in one society can be acceptable in another. For
instance, it is an unethical social behavior to engage in favoritism in the public. Refusing to
relate with others on the basis of their age, sex and race are also unethical social behaviors.
Employer's unethical behavior is not only employees who can behave in unethical ways.
Employers also have a common code of conduct and are required to act in a given manner.
For instance, an employer is not supposed to use the company money for his personal
expenses. Most organizations have formulated documents referred to as 'codes of conduct',
that set out the accepted behaviors within the work place. For students within learning
institutions it is unethical behavior to cheat during examinations. Ethical behavior is to be
cultivated within an individual from an early age. Without strong moral convictions, one can
be easily swayed to engage in contrary behaviors.
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http://www.enkivillage.com/unethical-business-practices.html
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