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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 Prepared By Mostafa Kamel Ethics in the Workplace Prepared By Mostafa Kamel • 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. Prepared By Mostafa Kamel 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!! Prepared By Mostafa Kamel
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