Issues To Consider When Implementing A Corporate Code Of Ethics
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Issues to Consider When Implementing a Corporate Code of Ethics
Business leaders are talking more today about ethics than in the
past few decades and society is demanding it. When President Eisenhower
held presidency, our society trusted big corporations and did not question
their motives or actio ....
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.... consider the
following: the cost of being ethical, conflicts between goals and values,
and the models of ethical decision making as companies encounter
increasing pressure from the public to be socially accountable for their
actions.
During the dawn of the new public awareness of social
responsibility economist Milton Freidman (1997) argued that corporations
cannot have social responsibility because they are not real, they are
intangible and emotionless. Only human beings are able to have ....
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