Gender Roles

During the announcement of the seventh annual list of most ethical companies in the world in 2013, Alex Brigham of Ethisphere, noted that more companies find that ethical business practices increase their competitiveness in their respective industries, helping to further substantiate the notion that a culture of ethic is crucial to sustainable excellence (Smith, 2013). Researchers in the field of Organizational Behavior has found that employees are subjected to an environment of ethical dilemma constantly. During such moments employees have a choice either to pursue with ethical conduct or engage in an unethical behavior which results in harming the organization or its stakeholder (Trevino & Brown, 2004). How the employee behave greatly depends

M2(Unit 37) - Assess the social implications of business ethics facing a selected business in its different areas of activity

Mentioning about business classes, students may think about finance, marketing, accounting, management and so on. However, ethics class is designed for all business students to understand about ethics and how to do moral business. The article Can We Teach Character? An Aristotelian Answer by Edwin M. Hartman explains the principle of ethics and how the schools can teach their business students good characters. The author emphasizes on the Aristotle’s principles of well-being and ethics and how to apply these principles to real life.

As requested, here is the report on ethical decision making and how it affects business students. This report focuses on ethical decisions and how important they are, or aren’t, to commerce students. The report features information from scholarly articles and books relating to business ethics. Mainly, what ethics are, what factors impact ethical decisions, and how universities have taken steps to improve students ethics and behaviour, if that`s truly plausible.

Historically, business ethics was of little concern to the majority. However, beginning around the early 1970s, ethical commercial policies and procedures became significantly important. Prior to the 1970s, the term business ethics was seldom a discussion. Most companies simply did not care about the ethics of their business operations, mission or corporate behavior—they were focused totally on the bottom line profits. Conversely, colleges and universities began to offer courses that focused on “Logic,” “Epistemology,” and “Ethics” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, most of these courses involved highly theoretical, esoteric concentrations, seldom found in business curriculums. In many cases, these subjects were offered to liberal

Ferrell, O. C., Fraedrich, J., & Ferrell, L. (2013). Business ethics: Ethical decision making and cases [9th edition]. Mason, OH: Cengage Learning. Retrieved from

The article discusses how in the past ethics training was the tool used by most organizations to increase employees’ ethical decision-making skills and conduct. Not until a study was conducted, utilizing a sample size of 313 business professionals did the relationship between ethics training and perceived organizational ethics were thought to be connected.

For decades’ women have been fighting for their equal rights in every aspect of their life. It refers to a lot of ideas, methodologies which focus towards support for all kind of gender and sex equality for women. In the past women have been criticized in every field of work just for their gender, but the time is changing now and people are changing with it. Women wants their half of what they deserve, they have been overpowered for far too long now. There is no denial to that women are still struggling to takes their place as equals in the society and this world is not going to be a better place until women and men are treated as equal.

Hartman, L. P., DesJardins, J. R., MacDonald, C., & Hartman, L. P. (2014). Business Ethics: Decision-making for personal integrity and social responsibility. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Rasche, A., & Gilbert, D. U. (2013, January). What Drives Ethics Education in Business Schools? Influences on Ethics in the MBA Curriculum. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 1, 2013, pages 1-31). Academy of Management.

Ethics and morality may initially seem to be interchangeable words used to describe a code of conduct that society should follow in order to make informed decisions. However, they are in fact two separate entities that exist as individual codes of conduct, yet share a symbiotic relationship in decision making. Ethics can be described as the rules of behavior and demeanor as established by society, a certain sociological group of people, or a religion. Consequently, due to the nature of ethics, they can ultimately be viewed as a governing body. This body is recognized by some larger institution greater than oneself, one that someone is obligated to follow as determined by their religion, race, or creed. On the other hand, morality is an internal trait that is, in due course, solely created by the individual. People may recognize ethics as virtues set by their society or creed, whereas morality regards people determining whether the ethics in their everyday experiences adhere to individual principles and conduct. With this prevalent symbiotic relationship between ethics and morality, one can recognize the vital role that ethics and morality partake in when it comes to decision making. As a result of this relationship, these two qualities become important in areas of operation, such as business, where decisions are often made by one individual for the sake of the greater whole. This approach, also known as utilitarianism, can often lead to questionable ethical and moral

Going by the alpha view, of ethics in business sex differences at the management level will carry over to ethical issues. There are various studies that support this particular view. Evidence has it that women and women differ on about four accounts regarding ethics. These accounts include moral development, ethical behavior, and sensitivity to ethical and ethical value system. This paper looks at the differences between men and women when it comes to ethical matters within the working environment.

Decisions are made every day in the workplace that may have ethical implications. It is important to conduct business in an ethical way because those decisions may have an impact on their companies, employees, shareholders, customers, and possibly on society. As organizations integrate ethical values into their corporate culture, they will have an engaged workforce that will have higher morale, higher employee retention, and higher production. “American Management Association (AMA) executive members completed an online corporate values survey. Ethics and integrity were listed among 76% of the respondents’ company corporate values and 72% said that they were practiced most or all of the time. Yet respondents had seen unethical

Men and women differentiate in their understanding of ethics. One of the primary places where this is shown is in negotiations. Through looking at “moral identity strength,” the degree to which people internalize moral traits in their identities to look at the depths of how different genders internalize morality, one can began to understand the differences between men and women in negotiations This competition in negotiations makes men and women act differently. Men are more likely to act unethically in negotiations. Financial incentives impact both genders and make people stray away from their initial moral identity. The higher the financial incentive, the more likely a

“The state of business schools, business education, and business ethics” was written by Cavico and Mujtaba(2010). The article highlights the importance of business ethics course to determine some challenging issues business schools face today by integrating with the fundamental basis of ethics to business, to leadership and to business students’ education. More specifically, the ethics course is getting more and more important for society and the business world in terms of developing ethical comprehension and socially responsible behaviors and also companies have these kind of expectations from their employees, managers and directors. If the business ethics course was taught in business schools and universities in Turkey, the most important