Professional Documents
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• The entrepreneur must sell quality products at fair price. He must also be fair
with his suppliers by paying them on time as agreed upon.
• He must pay the correct amount of taxes to the government. He must promote
the welfare of his employees.
• He must observe business ethics with his fellow businessmen.
• Equally important is the social responsibility of the entrepreneur to his
community in terms of job creation and environmental observation.
Also, when you have a problem at work, it can be tempting not to do anything and hope
that someone else will fix it. But that is not the right thing to do if you can solve the problem
yourself.
Waiting for someone else to come and fix your problem or clean up your mess is one of
the examples of not taking responsibility. Take control of your issues and try to solve them
on your own.
Angeles City Senior High School
St. Ignatius, Pandan, Angeles City
Example of Responsibility
2. Change Your Work Environment
Good examples of responsibility include suggesting to your
boss or someone else that you want to do projects in areas
outside your current role.
That way, they will be more likely to put you on different projects
or tasks. You can also take on difficult tasks for the long-term
good of your skills and future promotions.
Angeles City Senior High School
St. Ignatius, Pandan, Angeles City
Example of Responsibility
3. Admit Your Mistakes
Accept responsibility if you make a mistake, own up to it,
and apologize. Learn from your mistakes and don’t
repeat them. Don’t excuse your behavior or make
excuses for yourself. It shows humility on your part.
You might also have to offer help with the project, depending on
whether your input is necessary for it to be completed or not.
The key is to keep going and never back down from challenging tasks.
People will trust and consider you as an effective employee who can handle
anything.
When you take responsibility for your work, it helps you stay on
track and makes you accountable to yourself and others around
you.
Angeles City Senior High School
St. Ignatius, Pandan, Angeles City
Example of Responsibility
12. Avoid Frustrating Others with False Promises
Good examples of taking responsibility include avoiding
to make false promises. If you know that a task will take
you longer to complete, tell people who depend on your
part of the work how much time it would take so there is
no confusion or frustrations later if you are unable to
complete the work on time.
Focus on doing your job, and resist talking about others or making rumors
and side talks. Whenever you feel tempted to gossip about someone at
work, pause and ask yourself – who is this going to help?
9. Manage Performance
"What gets measured gets done" is an expression you will often hear when talking about
performance management and the simple meaning behind this statement is the key to our
philosophy of rewarding and managing performance. We want all our employees to have
clearly defined goals, which they defined themselves with their managers, on the basis of
business goals, through three main performance areas profit, process, and people.
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We reward our employees fairly and attractively, in line with the prevailing conditions on the
local market. We gather data from the labor market on a regular basis, ensuring that our
reward structures remain competitive. Our reward system is well structured and transparent
in its application. It:
• Allocates appropriate people to appropriate job positions
• Set requirements and standards, outcomes and measures
• Provides effective orientation, education, and training
• Provides ongoing coaching and feedback
• Designs a foundation for effective systems that reward people for their contributions
• Provides promotional/career development opportunities for employees
2. Pay Taxes
Businesses must pay taxes and fees to the government in the course of carrying out their
operations. These can include taxes on revenues, tariffs on imported products, and a number
of administrative fees necessary to register the business. Withholding these payments,
particularly taxes, is considered a crime.
7. Avoid Corruption
The commercial organization should not take any type of favor from government officials by
bribing or influencing them.
8. Assist in Implementing Socio-Economic Policies
The government expects co-operation and help from the business sector to help in
implementing programs and policies relating to social and economic development.
9. Help Earn Foreign Exchange
The government also expects from a business organization that it will earn foreign currency
by exporting goods in the foreign market. The government requires this foreign currency for
importing valuable and important products.
4. Maintain Confidentiality
Dealing with suppliers properly means sharing information with them and making them part
of the planning processes. They must keep their clients and purchasers abreast of any new
information on new technology and latest raw materials. Confidentiality must be strictly
practiced. This means no unnecessary disclosure of information shared by the company and
its activities.
5. Pay on Time
One of the best ways to deal with suppliers is to be responsible for making timely payments
according to the agreed terms and conditions of the trade.
1. Be Fiscally Responsible
One of the actions that prompted failure of companies such as Enron and Adelphia occurred
when executives gave themselves loans using company funds, according to RR Donnelley.
While it can be disappointing to consumers that companies need legislation to be fiscally
responsible, it would be naive to allow company executives to keep raiding corporate bank
accounts for their own needs. When a company is caught up in a scandal caused by executive
greed, it can be fiscally fatal for that company. That is why a company needs to enact and
enforce guidelines of its own that agree with the law but also apply specifically to the
company, to avoid misuse of company funds. There is a bond of trust between a consumer
and a company that is broken when fiscal fraud occurs. This goes for public or private
companies.
Pre-Employment Policies
The minimum age for employment is 15 years old and
below that age is not allowed. Persons of age 15 to 18 can
be employed given that they work in non-hazardous
environment.
Minimum Wage
Rates
Normal hours of
work any employee
shall not exceed 8
hours a day.
Ethical Dilemmas
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two
courses of action, either of which entails disobeying a moral principles.
Ethical dilemmas faced by certain companies may be specific to their
industry or company, other types of ethical issues are common to all
types of company.
Handling ethical decisions with wisdom is especially important for small
business, given the potentially devastating effects these companies may
face if such issues are not handled correctly.
Angeles City Senior High School
St. Ignatius, Pandan, Angeles City
Business Dilemmas
Transparency
Prominent business and accounting scandals have made it imperative that
companies operate with openness and transparency.
This includes hones, accurate and complete reporting on mandated financial
accounting reports.
For large and small business, transparency includes communicating messages ,
including marketing messages that aren’t open to misinterpretation and that
clearly represent the intentions of the company and its message.
Unfair Competition
Unjust and often illegal attempt to gain competitive advantage though:
False fraudulent
Unethical commercial conduct
Examples: Below-cost selling, counterfeiting or imitation, dumping, misleading
advertisement, rumor mongering, trademark or trade secret infringement.
Unethical Advertisements in
terms of fair competition