Dynamics of Ethics

Dynamics of Ethics

Introduction

Ethics is referred to as a branch of moral philosophy that deals with the right and wrong conduct of people and their behaviors in different fields. Ethics basically aims to systemize, defend and recommend concepts and principles that distinguish right and wrong conduct of people. Ethics is involved in almost every professional and social field in the modern society. Ethics is incorporated in political, business, social, medical, educational and other arenas the society. It has also been observed that there are many unethical practices involved by different employers and businesses to promote their business. These are the issues that are very important to be considered by the employers and continue ethical business within the limits of ethics. It has become essential for the employers to develop plans and strategies for maintaining ethical standards at the workplace (Bredeson, 2012). A brief discussion about the requirements of business ethics and the changes involved in maintaining ethical standards in business organization will be presented in this paper.

Discussion

Business Ethics is basically a phenomenon that deals with professional ethics and the issues and problems that arise in the business environment. It is very important to understand that business ethics aim to develop strategies and principles to reduce and eliminate the issued that arise in the business environment. Employers in the modern business environment aim to develop ethical standards within the workplace, and in return require employees to maintain the developed ethical principles and standards for doing business. The historical view of business ethics demonstrates that employers or businesses did not emphasize much on the ethical standards for conducting business. But, then an effective concept of business ethics evolved first in the United States in the 1970's and then most of the business organizations and employers emphasized on including specific business ethical principles ...