Specific aspects of Ethics in Business

Specific aspects of Ethics in Business

Introduction

Ethics is considered as a significant part of every business's environment. It is not an easy issue that is why sometimes it becomes difficult to work on ethical basis in any business. It is the most crucial in any business environment that how to be ethical with business stakeholders especially with employees. In any business, employees are forced to go through several business dilemmas and resolving them both as a team and as individuals within the limits of ethics (Glover, 1991). Ethical issues are identified as problems, situations, opportunity of an individual or group of individuals, to differentiate among several options that what is right and wrong, or ethical and unethical. In a business dilemma, there is not just a single right or ethical act but there are several choices which are perceived as unethical by any one or by all stakeholders.

Thesis Statement

The ethical dilemmas in any business which are based on several options to choose as right and ethical act by just one employee or by all the stakeholders.

Discussion

A positive and helpful first step in this regard is to identify and resolve ethical issues of a business environment are to categorize the issues that are the most linked issues in several business organizations. For this purpose, there is a classification of ethical issues with respect to lying, discrimination, abusive behavior, sexual harassment, corporate intelligence, bribery, environmental issues, fraud, environmental and other privacy issues etc. Amazingly, the ability to put forth political involvement or political influence is sometimes become as the most major issue to any business.

Intimidating or Abusive Behavior

Among many issue and business dilemmas, abusive behavior is considered as one of the most common issue of ethics for employee. The concept of this term comes under several things like physical threats, profanity, insults, being annoying, yelling, harshness, ignoring someone, and false accusations etc. and the meanings to these concepts may differ from person to person. For example, what one person defines as yelling might be in another's term as a normal speech. The main concern is to be civilized in society as well as in work environments with everyone. Due to the time spent unscrambling intimidating relationships, the overall productivity level of several business organizations has been decreased (Kotler, 1980).

Lying

By commission, lying comprises of complex, procedures, words, and contracts that are regarded as something same but have dissimilar meanings as it is a false statement in order to deceive someone. It includes conveying a false message to someone by advertising. For example, conveying the false idea of a product to customers as it is 'homemade' while it has made in a factory. In cooking, 'made from scratch' normally means that in a product all ingredients are distinct and were separated prior to the production process. Another type of lie can be spoken in business is showing the picture of features of product to customers which is not like that in ...