This document outlines several principles of ethical business behavior including accountability, care and respect, honesty, healthy competition, loyalty and respect for commitments, information transparency, and respect for the rule of law. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining mutual respect between all stakeholders, ensuring safe and respectful work environments, transparent communication to build trust, reducing conflicts of interest, resolving disputes internally, being faithful to commitments and business vision, providing comprehensive information to customers and employees, and abiding by corporate laws and regulations. Upholding these principles can help businesses cultivate strong teamwork, support employee growth, ensure legal compliance, avoid criminal acts, promote a strong public image, and improve trust in relationships.
This document outlines several principles of ethical business behavior including accountability, care and respect, honesty, healthy competition, loyalty and respect for commitments, information transparency, and respect for the rule of law. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining mutual respect between all stakeholders, ensuring safe and respectful work environments, transparent communication to build trust, reducing conflicts of interest, resolving disputes internally, being faithful to commitments and business vision, providing comprehensive information to customers and employees, and abiding by corporate laws and regulations. Upholding these principles can help businesses cultivate strong teamwork, support employee growth, ensure legal compliance, avoid criminal acts, promote a strong public image, and improve trust in relationships.
This document outlines several principles of ethical business behavior including accountability, care and respect, honesty, healthy competition, loyalty and respect for commitments, information transparency, and respect for the rule of law. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining mutual respect between all stakeholders, ensuring safe and respectful work environments, transparent communication to build trust, reducing conflicts of interest, resolving disputes internally, being faithful to commitments and business vision, providing comprehensive information to customers and employees, and abiding by corporate laws and regulations. Upholding these principles can help businesses cultivate strong teamwork, support employee growth, ensure legal compliance, avoid criminal acts, promote a strong public image, and improve trust in relationships.
Advantages of Ethical Behavior - mutual respect must be maintained between business 1. Cultivates strong teamwork and productivity. owners, employees and customers. 2. Supports employee growth and meaning. - businesses need to ensure safe working space 3. Helps to ensure that policies are legal. for employees 4. Helps to avoid criminal acts of "omission.” to encourage respectful relationship between all 5. Promotes a strong public image. stakeholder. 6. Improves trust in relationships. 3. Honesty 7. Legitimizes managerial actions. - transparent communication between business owners and employees is much desired. A Leadership Approach to Achieving Excellence 1. Committed to Change - it helps build trust and establish a relationship between 2. Responsive to Customers employees and the business and it is applicable 3. Learning Focused to business 4. Externally Adaptive relationships with its customers. 5. Internally Integrated - 6. Ethically Virtuous 4. Healthy competition 7. Dynamically Capable - businesses should encourage healthy 8. Consistently Focused competition in their workforce and reduce conflicts of interest to a minimum Principles of Business Ethics among employees. 1. Accountability 5. Loyalty and respect for commitments - taking full responsibility for their actions or practices. - all disagreements between businesses and their employees - includes any bad decisions taken or unethical should be resolved internally away from eyes of business the public. practices followed during the course of business operations. - employees are to stay faithful to upholding the business vision and promoting business brands and stay faithful to agreements with employees. - businesses unreasonably interpreting agreements or not respecting commitments is considered unethical in business practice. 6. Information transparency - important information disseminated among customers, employees or partners is to be provided comprehensively. - includes both positive and negative information, terms and conditions, or any other crucial information, as it is against business ethics to withhold or hide relevant facts. - 7. Respect for the rule of law - corporate laws, rules, and regulations guiding business practices are to be respected and abides by, as any flouting of such law is considered unethical.