Ethical & Legal Issues Facing Government, Business & Society

Ethical & Legal Issues Facing Government, Business & Society

Introduction

Legal and ethical problems have proven to be a great source of causing stress and troubles amongst the individuals belonging to various disciplines in the society, like the government, business and social areas. This leads to an elevated turnover intention and decreased job satisfaction. This turns out to be particularly challenging when the ethical trepidation carries along, some legal outcomes as well. New laws, in some cases, have been set out for imparting guidance responding to the ethical and legal dilemmas prevalent in our society. Due to this, this study takes into consideration, the ethical as well as legal concerns pertaining to the specified discipline.

Thesis Statement

There are ethical and legal lapses in the disciplines of business, government and the society as whole, which lead to serious dilemmas resulting in exceedingly unfavourable consequences. The study intents to make the audience realize the grounds for ethical decision making, and help employ the means which may impart assistance in the procedure of making decisions. Also, some suggestions for the corrective actions would also be presented.

Ethical and Legal Issues

There are a lot of ethical as well as legal issues that we can see and observe in our daily lives in disciplines like the business industry, the governmental agencies and institutions and the society in general. These issues lead to troublesome dilemmas that impose far reaching consequences and impacts on the individuals associated to the specified fields. These issues evolve due to the practices and exercises followed, decisions made, and the customs and behaviours prevailed within the particular discipline. The way people are, the way they behave, the way they adopt changes, the way they react and respond to changes, the means they embark on for carrying out their daily tasks, the methods they acquire for the purpose of excelling in their respective domains, the way they make decisions and they factors they take into consideration for making important decisions pertinent to their errands and job roles; all these pose a considerable impact on the society and many of these serve as a source for the appearance of ethical as well as legal issues facing each of the specified disciplines. These issues are significant to attend to, researched, and require suggestions for the interventions and preventive measures for controlling their prevalence in the society for the reason that they decay the society from within and avert the society as a whole from rising and standing out amongst the sound, strong societies of the world.

Conversing regarding the issues and conflicting conditions in terms of law and ethics, with regards to the personal experience and attended occasions, there are several issues that can be presented here. In the business domain, these issues include disclosure of potentially conflicting interests, acceptance of gifts, interaction with the medical industry, financial aid, institutional conflicts of interests, web tracking, re-intermediation and disintermediation, fraud cases, etc. Talking about the governmental affairs, the possibly arising ethical and legal ...