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School of Business
Name of faculty members Prof. Sumeet
Course code: MGN253 Course Title: Business Ethics
Academic Task No: 1 Academic Task Title: Assignment 1
Date of Allotment: Date of Submission:30/08/2022
Student Roll No: RQ2128A05 Student Reg No: 12109915
Term:3 Section: Q2128
Mx. Marks:30 Marks. Obtained:
Evaluation Parameters:

Learning Outcomes: We were able to develop our understanding regarding how to do a

survey and what unethical/ethical behaviours customers value resulting in our knowledge of
the importance of the subject

Declaration:

I declare that this Assignment is my individual work. I have not copied it from
any other students’ work or from any other source except where due
acknowledgement is made explicitly in the text, nor has any part been written
for me by any other person.

Evaluation Criterion: Rubrics on different parameters

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General Observations Suggestion for Best part of assignment

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my special thanks and gratitude to my teacher Miss. Shilpa Sewak
gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful assignment, which also helped me in
doing a lot of research and I came to know about so many new things, I am thankful to
them. Secondly, I want to thank my group members for their cooperation and contribution
to this project. Thirdly, I would like to thank the people who helped me perform this survey.
Lastly, I would also thank my parents and friends who helped me a lot in finalizing this
project within given time period.

Peer rating
S.NO. REGESTRATION NO. NAME PEER RATING
1 12212514 Ashish 10
2 12213531 Rinkal saroj 9
3 12112765 M.Raghu 8
4 12109915 Bapi sarkar 8
5 12213278 Kylienada 9
khamees kiula

Contents

Survey overview
Introduction
Ethical activity behaviour
Unethical activity behaviour
Unethical behaviour identified in the survey
Underlaying factors leading to unethical practice
Recommendation
Conclusion

Survey overview
In this survey we took survey from people belongs from different background
which are following students, employees, entrepreneurs and housewives. The
survey is about the unethical practices which they have experienced in their life.

INTRODUCTION:

Business ethics is the study of appropriate business practises and regulations

with relation to potentially contentious problems such corporate governance,
insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility, and
fiduciary duties. Businesses may occasionally decide to uphold business ethics
as a fundamental guideline in order to gain the public's favour. A common
source of guidance for corporate ethics is the law.
Business ethics are important because they have a lasting effect on many levels.
Growing investor awareness of environmental, social, and governance issues
puts a company's reputation at danger. An unethical company practise, such as
insufficient customer privacy regulations and protections, could result in a data
breach.

ETHICAL ACTIVITY:

Something that abides by moral norms is defined as ethical. Moral standards are
used by people to discern between good and wrong. Ethics is a worldwide
phenomenon. Every civilization has its own set of moral laws that specify how
its citizens are expected to behave. Nearly every society demonstrates some sort
of ethics. For instance, treating patients regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or
nationality is morally acceptable for doctors. Additionally, ethical behaviour
keeps social peace and concord among society's members and helps to ensure
that society runs smoothly. Someone who leads a moral life may enjoy a good
standard of living and garner respect from others.

UNETHICAL ACTIVITY:

Being unethical is the exact opposite of being ethical. A person who does not
uphold moral principles is unethical. People who behave unethically refuse to
adhere to moral or suitable behaviour standards. Due to unethical behaviour,
civilization could collapse into anarchy. There are certain commonly accepted
unethical behaviours just like there are in ethics. There are well defined ethical
and immoral behaviours in various professions. For example, it is considered
unethical for doctors to self-promote. Furthermore, it is thought to be unethical
for the wealthy to take advantage of the poor for their personal gain. In the
business sector, it is discouraged to use trademarks other than one's own for
illicit personal advantage. Like this, ethically abhorrent

Unethical behaviour identified in the survey

All the unethical activities are discussed in following (entrepreneurs, students,

employees and housewives)

EVALUATION OF ENTREPRENEURS:

 Stealing, fake excuses to avoid the work : In this survey stealing the
products and time, such conduct is unethical and detrimental to the company.
Because employees are compensated for labour they did not perform,
stealing time is essentially the same as stealing money. A corporation might
not notice the effects on its bottom line if only a few employees steal time
 and the products. However, the effects of widespread time theft can seriously
harm a company's profitability.

 Providing false information in resume for getting job: according to survey,

many people provide the false information to get the job. Because of such
activities company bear the huge losses in dealings. Cause the empolyes are
not capable to crack the deal or mange the things as they told in the survey.

EVALUATION OF STUDENTS:
 Cheating in examination: In the survey of students, they mentioned that few
students use the unfair means in the examination. As well as they created
disturbance in examination hall. That halted their exam of that students
which were prepared for test and using the fair means in the exam.
 Supporting feminism in wrong way: Student of psychology highlighted that
nowadays girls are using their power feminism in the wrong way. Also the
authority of regulation and society is in favour of girls without evaluating the
whole case.
 Teasing on behalf of race, religion: Foreigner student mention that class
fellow use to tease her on behalf of race and religion. She goes through the
serious mental health issues.

EVALUATION OF HOUSEWIVIES:
 Harassment for dowry: In northern region of India, housewives are suffering
from domestic violence. Dowery distracts from the concepts of bride price
and doer, which are related. Dowry is the wealth transferred from the bride’s
family to the groom or his family, ostensibly for the bride, as compared to
bride price, which is a payment by the groom.

EVALUATION OF EMPOLYEES:
 Pressure from boss for unachievable targets: In survey, employee of bank
mentioned that, in their peak months boss use to force all the employees to
complete the unachievable targets for the company’s profit. That leads to
depression and anxiety for the employees. Also they were not able to give
time to their family.
 Abusing on work place by customers and higher authorities: the coustmer
care employee highlighted that people abuse them for no reasons and they
 were not capable to take action against them as well as they also got pressure
form their higher authority to behave good with costumers to build the image
of company.

Underlying factors leading to unethical practices

There are many factors for unethical activities are following:
 Ego satisfaction: This the major factor behind unethical practices. People use
the unfair means to complete the task which will help them to satisfy their
ego. Ego has no right or wrong if it achieves pleasure without harming itself.
Ego incorporates the morals of society and values given by parents.

 Greed: people practices the unethical activities to achieve more and more.
They never got satisfied with their position and power. This will gone lead
them to do unethical practises.
 Financial unstability: Most of people want to stabilise them financial.
However, the situation of financial unstability encourage them to do
unethical activities to get the financial freedom.
 For getting higher position in office and society: this factor is related to ego
satisfaction. People want to get higher position in society as well as in their
professional workplace.
 For getting good marks and for qualifying the exam: Student do the cheating
in their exam to qualify.

Recommendations
There are some recommendation which given by people in contract of unethical
practices
• Employees should choose right path for growth in their profession and
provide the right information in their resume
• People should respect everyone and don’t judge by their race and religion
• Educational institutions need to take required actions for conducting fair
examinations
• Sperate department should be in the companies which take care of
employee’s mental health.
• Students should not be socialized a lot with social media which has no
advantage in change values.
Conclusion
In conclusion, morality is unquestionably among humanity's top needs.
Furthermore, a world devoid of ethics would have been a chaotic and horrible
place. Additionally, without ethics, humanity can not grow. The youth in the
community need to be well-aware of ethics. We are now able to understand the
difference between ethical and unethical activities.

SURVEYS