Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Marianne M. Jennings
S
Its Legal, Ethical, and
Global Environment
11th Ed.
Chapter 2
Business Ethics and
Social Responsibility
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What Is Ethics?
• Examples:
– Underinflated football issue in the NFL
– Turing increases drug price by 5000%
– Uber’s billing policies
• Definition: normative standards,
generally accepted rules of conduct that
govern society
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What Is Ethics?
• What is “fair”?
• What if something “just doesn’t seem
right” or “That’s just not fair”?
– Discuss seeing two movies for the price of one
– Disclosing your salary cut after the loan
application is submitted
– Telling the clerk you received too much change
OPTIONS COST
Leadership
By
Example
Ethics Codes
Ethics Training: Annual/Scenarios
Investigations/Enforcement/Feedback
▪
How
long was
she
embezzling?
Business
Fairness assumption
Regulation/Fairness
Investors Customers
Government