BUSINESS ETHICS

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Submitted to: SIR MUHAMMAD MASOOD MIR

STUDENT NAME: SHERAZ NADEEM

CLASS: B COM4(MORNING)
(HYDERI CAMPUS)

ID NUMBER: 13925
(FALL 20)

COURSE: BUSINESS ETHICS

SUBMISSION DATE: 02-11-2020

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 MID-TERM Fall 2020
(H)

Student ID: 13925 SHERAZ Date: 02nd November 2020

Code: SSC-251 Class:B.com-04 Max.

Course Name: Business Ethics Marks:20 Marks
Instructor Name: Muhammad Masood Mir
Instructions:
 Read all questions carefully
 All questions are compulsory
 Write only student ID on the question paper and return it along with the answer sheet.
 All question carry equal marks

Question 01 (08 Marks)

Being a marketing manager of a company, you are assigned to perform the following things
1. Advertising campaign to run to promote the product
2. Selling Standard operating procedures (Sop’s)
Required

a. What sort of ethical boundaries you need to create on the above. While advertisement what
things you need to do that you will remain in the ethical guidelines? Explain in detail with
proper justification

b. What sort of ethical guidelines you need to follow while selling the product? Explain in
detail with proper justification

Question 02 (08 Marks)

Being Human Resource Manager of a company, you are assigned the following things
1. Recruitment and selection of new candidates
2. Decide the compensation of the employees
Required

a. What procedures you will drive that will remain in the ethical guidelines while recruitment
and selection of the employees? Explain the complete procedure with in ethical guideline

b. What procedures you will drive that will remain in the ethical guidelines while deciding
the compensation of the employees? Explain the complete procedure with in ethical
guideline
Question no 03 (04 Marks)
1. Explain in detail the ethical issues in global environment.

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 ANSWER NO 01:
REQUIRED A:

 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN OF DENIM PANTS:

We will tell our brand story on the social media and on other platforms counting how the organization
champions the rights and prosperity of the laborers who make its garments. What's truly intriguing about
our brand, however, is its responsibility to extremist straightforwardness. We will tell the customers that
we are manufacturing and selling our products ethically by providing them cost breakdown for each
product. It includes cost of material, labor, excise taxes and duties, transportation and logistics, and even
hardware such as zippers and buttons.

Consistently, the creation costs of most monetarily conveyed clothing are an immovably secured riddle.
This isn't just considering the way that a breakdown of such costs would reveal a brand's likely generally
speaking income on a specific thing, yet moreover considering the way that they highlight the direly
vulnerable remuneration and conditions various people working in garment creating continue on.
By strikingly revealing unquestionably how much all of its garments costs to make, we can offer our
customers such a straightforwardness. This is what customers need while valuing the huge brand such a
progressive straightforwardness offers.

We will not do misrepresentation of our products in front of our customers because it is unethical to
present something in advertisement which is not really exist in our products.

REQUIRED B:

 SELLING STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES (SOPs):

Dispatching new things and commitments reliably keeps pay streaming and clients secured. It's a shrewd
idea to make and dispatch something new for customers to purchase a couple of times each year.
By and by all of your things should have some assortment, yet the way where you set them up to sell
should be consistent. Else, you'll be making unnecessary work for yourself and your gathering! In your
standard working procedure format, may out the methods you need follow to plan and progress new
commitments.
This stage bases on progression and buzz-building, making interest and conversation. Pre-dispatch
typically bears a short time, and should be planned to ensure that perusers and fans are examining a thing
over various social stages. After an indispensable plan of updates, sees, and knocks have been conveyed,
the authority at a deal date appears and purchases flood in! To make a need to continue moving,
enlistment/purchasing is available for a set number of days (for the most part five to ten).

There are some ways by which you can sell your products ethically. Which are as follow
 Energize trust and legitimacy with the customer.
 Be dependable.
 Offer clear, legit information.
 Give sensible genuine connections.
 Address issues head-on.
 Finish on obligations to the customer.
 Acknowledge fights.

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  Show others how it’s done
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ANSWER NO 02:
REQUIRED A:
 ETHICAL GUIDELINES OF RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION:
In the organizations, day to day business principles and standards according to the set policies and standards
of the organization is ethics, In the midst of All the trustworthiness, respectfulness, and honesty as well, All
the practices in the organization which is unethical within the process of recruitment and selection are
miserably overflowing and will be resulted as the demotivation the job candidate and a big disappointment
for them and resulted be as demoralization of the candidate. Being an HR HUMAN RESOURCE of a
manager, it is a responsibility to recruit and select those best candidates who have the knowledge, ability,
and full of skills and those selections should be based on merit.
Some Ethical guidelines should be focused on while recruiting the best candidate some of them are
explained below:
1. Job Advertisement
2. Equal Employee Opportunity
3. Interview correctly and confidentiality
4. Sexual Harassment
5. Safety and healthy

 JOB ADVERTISEMENT:

This is the first responsibility of the Human resource manager to never place a misleading advertisement
for a job, If this occurs this include the misrepresentation of that posted position of add as well as it
contains the advertisement cost as well as always keep eye to design the advertisement according to the
need of the organization if any downsizing and firing of the employee are happened so then do with
internal and external recruitment according to the need of the organization with the help of different
alternatives for example job enlargement, job enrichment, etc.

 EQUAL EMPLOYEE OPPORTUNITY:

Equal employee opportunity (EEO) to all the job seekers and Employees and No person shall be
discriminated against based on national origin, Age, Sex, Religion, Race, Color, Domicile, Caste, and
Creed, or more characteristics (protected by Law). This selection is made based on MERIT, only those
persons include on the merit basis who has the skills, Relevant Qualifications, Abilities, Experience,
Knowledge, and as well some personal qualities. It is the responsibility of the HR manager to be honest at
the whole process.

 INTERVIEW CORRECTLY AND CONFIDENTIALITY:

To ensure the proper matching according to the need and skills as well as to that particular position it is
necessary to interview accordingly and to recruit the right person for the right job. And make sure to keep
confidential all the information’s.

 SEXUAL HARASSMENT:
Sexual harassment cannot be acceptable at any cost it is a violation of act it defines any harassment or any

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uncomfortable gesture or any kind of physically as well as verbally it is a violation of sexual act and
cannot be acceptable if occurred at workplace and at from all side it is responsibility for HR of the
company to make sure this all things.

 SAFETY AND HEALTHY:

To make sure that any inappropriate or injury at the workplace cannot be happened, as well as make sure
to provide more benefits in the form of compensations and benefits and make sure to treat all of them
equally.

REQUIRED B:
 COMPENSATIONS OF THE EMPLOYEE:
This is the approach in which employees are valued in exchange for their performance of work. There are
many types of compensation for the employees,
Some of them are explained below:
1. Pay for performance
2. Probationary leave
3. Paid and Unpaid leaves
4. Pay for seniority

 PERFORMANCE PAY:
The first one is to pay for performance this is not just the concept of benefit and compensation profits.
This is the mixture of the human resource HR processes which helps and supports the performances of the
company effectively and includes all the special benefits and the compensations as well as the different
career opportunities for the employees as well as to build up the best talent management in the company.

 PROBATIONARY PERIOD:
This helps in analyzing and identifying the skills and abilities of the employees according to their job
position in a specific period. This period has a chance for the employee to be selected and hired for the
permanent job position.

 PAID AND UNPAID LEAVE:

This is permission for a worker to be away from their working routine for a certain period, it can be paid
or unpaid both as well as mandatory and voluntary. The unpaid leave of absence is done when the
workforce time is not under the Employees compensations and benefits such as the paid holidays, Paid
time off as well as paid vacations and the leave for sick and paid leave of absence is the time which is
generally requested to the company workforce.

 SENIORITY PAY:
No discrimination policy should be adopted while scaling he pay for seniority; All the workforce of the
company is paid according to their performances of their particular jobs and how long that employee
has been working in the company it also helps in growing the performances of the company at all level.

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 ANSWER NO 03:

ETHICAL ISSUES IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT:

In the economy, the growth of the global business environment is the most important factor for the
increasing and growing of investment in the developing countries (Less developing countries LDCs).
Here are the following issues related to the ethical global environment.
1. Product safety
2. Plant safety
3. Advertising Practices
4. Human resource management
5. Environmental problems
6. Business practices
 PRODUCT SAFETY:
The companies know about their products and served accordingly with all the measures and knowledge regarding
safety and ensure that all the safety must be in the knowledge of the company, they mostly responsible for keeping
the trends as well and safe for the consumers as well.

 PLANT SAFETY:
There are different marketable plant safeties are adopted by the organizations it should be purely focused on those
strategies sometimes by the organization it's not been properly done for example there is a giant company and they
facing an infant milk controversy so it’s better to be surely protective on the plant safety.

 ADVERTISING PRACTICES:
In this global competitive era advertising is the most important tool in advertising, it can help in grabbing
the customer, advertisement can be placed in the form of billboards, as well as physical appearances and
different business practices such as according to the practices and customers interest in the business
world, marketing strategies for advertisement can never be constant.

 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT:

The HR of the companies are facing the issues globally, Issues relating to the global environmentally
products and as well as services as well as the risk and privacy and management of global talent and
understanding the challenges and opportunities, as well as cultural diversity and many HR practices and
domestic Human resource practices and the skills, are also required to deal with those all international
issues as well.

 ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS:

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The environmental problems are the main issue of this era, It affects the overall environmental concerns
and as well as global warming and as well as the layer of ozone depletion and as well as the natural
resources and the disposal of water and the biodiversity as well and the overpopulation.

 BUSINESS PRACTICES:

The business ethics required global business practices, The business ethics are the addressing and
competitive advantages and the environmental opportunities and challenges as well as the companies for
individual, and the enhancing the regulations of the public.

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