Ethics and Social Responsibility

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Introduction

Social responsibility is the awareness that business activities have an impact on society and firms should consider some voluntary responsibilities besides emphasizing in profits.

There are some questions in social responsibility.

To whom are we responsible?

How far we should go to satisfy our customers?

Will our decisions affect any individual or group of the society?

Do our business activities jeopardize the environment and area?

Are we doing the right thing?

Discussion

Today, they present a series of changes and transformations in economic, political, social, cultural and technological, that directly affect business and in their interaction with the environment. Companies are faced with the dilemma of being only agents of economic development or to partake of socio-economic development. Clearly the environment cannot be separated, they must understand and acknowledge that as social beings, they also have a social responsibility and an ethical commitment to fulfill, because ultimately they serve and serve society. Next some concepts and approaches that lead to understand that there is a strong and undeniable link between social responsibility and business ethics, and in modern times society demands action organizations increasingly consistent with their values, principles and expectations.

Ethics in business plays an important role in preserving the rights of all the entities related with a certain company or entrepreneur. For instance it prepares better and creates moral managers, which from the other side this managers have distinct and exemplary attitude with stockholders and employees. Furthermore moral managers treat stockholders equally and with the same fairness and honesty as they would treat their shareholders. Most importantly moral managers not only make sure that the code of ethics is implemented in every field of the company, but they enhance its development. In relation with their employee, moral managers treat them fairly and with dignity and they respect employee rights, liberty and ethical choices. Also moral managers have high regard for customers, they introduce them safe and legal products with a reasonable price by not tricking them. So for a successful business one area that should get top priority is ethics, because it helps in facilitating the path for achieving organizational goals. Since in most operations in a business these days are run by personal computers it's needed to be explained the IT ethics in organization. IT ethics these days deals with a range of additional issues (beside that of the use of PC) together with copyrights, computer law, anti cyber piracy etc. What is to be underline is that the main goal of IT ethics is the incorporation of human principles in the development process of technologies.

Ethics leads to Social responsibility

An important pillar that supports the ethics is the social responsibility. Its philosophy is based on utilitarianism, where it holds the idea that if an action it would be made by different entities, it would be made for the purpose of the most benefit for the larger number of people. Consequently we can see that social responsibility encourage altruism rather than egoism, so a manager in an organization should not ...