1. Business Ethics
BY: Joshua m. Standifer

2. Business Ethics What is ethics?
The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.
A system of moral principals.
What is business ethics?
The principals and standards that determine acceptable conduct in business organizations.
Is a form of professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment.

3. Types of Unethical Conduct
Harassment
Misrepresenting/ Fraud
Theft
Customer Relations
Whistle Blowing

4. Harassment Types Of Harassment: Discriminatory Harassment
Sexual Harassment
Racial Harassment
Personal Harassment
Psychological Harassment

5. Misrepresenting/ Fraud
Deception in the business practices
Misrepresenting one’s own work is taking someone else’s ideas or work and using it as your own.

6. Theft
Theft ranging from stealing office supplies to stealing millions of dollars from the organization.

7. Whistle Blowing
A whistleblower is a person who raises a concern about wrong doing in an organization.

8. Code of Conduct What is the Code of Conduct?
A set of rules outlining the responsibilities of or proper practices for an individual or organization.
The code of conduct is closely related to ethics.

9. Decisions By Rules
• Ends can’t always be known, so focus on duty, obligations, rules
• Good rules lead to good outcomes
• Asks how would you want everyone else to act if they were faced with this very same situation?
Asks what is greatest good for the greatest number, the greatest balance of benefits over harms?

10. Making an Ethical Decision
How do you deal with them?
Address this issue first
Determine who is effected
What is the ethical concern of this issue
What do others think?
Having more than one opinion develops a well rounded solution to dealing with the situation
Deciding on what to do is not up to one person, but everyone who it has an affect on as well

11. Steps to Making an Ethical Decision
Identify the ethical issue/ problem
List facts that have most affect on the decision
Identify anyone affected by decision and how they are affected
Explain what each affected person would want you to do about issue
List 3 alt. actions and identify the best and worst case scenario for each, anyone harmed, and values compromised, and any reasons this shouldn’t be selected
Determine a course of action

12. Ethical Decisions Companies need to be trustworthy and honest
Effects Stakeholders, customers, employees, and community
Ethics and Business go together
Create the environment where people feel safe enough to speak up
Get Facts
Which solution will be for the greater good of the company and create the least harm
Which solution respects the rights of everyone

13. THE END
Any questions?