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Learning Objectives
• Explain how individuals develop their personal codes of ethics and why
ethics are important in the workplace.
• Distinguish social responsibility from ethics, identify organizational
stakeholders, and characterize social consciousness today.
• Show how the concept of social responsibility applies both to environmental
issues and to a firm’s relationships with customers, employees, and
investors.
• Explain how issues of social responsibility and ethics affect small business.
Prepared By Mostafa Kamel
Chapter Outline
A. Ethics in the Workplace
• Individual Ethics
• Business and Management Ethics
• Company Practices and Business Ethics
B. Social Responsibility
• The Stakeholder Model of Responsibility
C. Areas of Social Responsibility
• Responsibility toward the Environment.
• Responsibility toward the Customers.
• Responsibility toward the Employees.
• Responsibility toward the Investors.
D. Social Responsibility and the Small Business
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Ethics in the Workplace
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• Ethics are beliefs about wrong and right or bad and good.
• Ethical Behavior: behavior conforming to generally accepted social
norms concerning beneficial and harmful actions.
• Unethical Behavior is behavior that does not conform to generally
accepted social norms concerning beneficial and harmful actions.
• Business Ethics refers to ethical or unethical behaviors by employees
in the context of their jobs.
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Individual Ethics
• Because ethics are based on both individual beliefs and social
concepts, they vary from person to person, from situation to
situation, and from culture to culture.
• Social standards are broad enough to support differences in beliefs.
• Ambiguity!!
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