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Chapter 2
Business Ethics
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Business
11th Grade
10/08/2008

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What are Business ethics?

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Business Ethics are the standards of conduct and moral values governing actions and decisions in the work environment
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Businesses must also take into account a wide range of social issues such as....?

Definition

How will a decision affect the environment?

How will it affect its customers?

Its employees?

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The philosophies, policies, procedures, and actions that enhance society’s welfare are a part of what?
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Social Responsibility
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Through ethics and social responsibility, businesses find the _____ between doing what is right and doing what is profitable.
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Balance
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True or False

In business, as in life, deciding what is right or wrong is always always clear cut.

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False
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A company has responsibilities to many groups such as:
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To its consumers

To its employees

To its investors

To society as a whole

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True or False.

Conflicts can arise in trying to serve the different needs of each of the grouops companys have responsibility to.

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Trueee.
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The ________ of staff at all levels, not just executives, shape a firm's decisions and actions.
Definition
Individual ethics
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