Ethics Articles

Business » Ethics | By Obinna Heche @ Thursday, 11th September 2008 @ 1:50 PM

Too many offers of guaranteed income or of projected income can be found online these days. When someone is scouring the internet for job announcements or possibly with the intent of starting a business, the number of business opportunities that pop up is growing quite large. These offers are sometimes not in compliance with business opportunity law specifications. How does one know if that advertisement offering easy income or a product that sells itself is in compliance with the local business... more...

Business » Ethics | By Patricia Stevens @ Wednesday, 27th August 2008 @ 9:40 PM

In 2002 the Sarbanes Oxley Act was passed into federal law after the American nation was shocked by scandals that rocked large businesses from Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia to name a few. These scandals all related to businesses and firms using insider trading to get ahead resulting in the loss of share value to many individual investors and drastically reducing the American's faith in trading and investing in the stock market in general, but most noticeably in the securities market as the... more...

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 @ 1:45 PM

You can find various business ethics quizzes around thPick the one answer you think is wrong. This one is different. Each question has only one WRONG answer, doesn't analyze your answers and tell you where you went wrong. Rather, it is simply intended to raise your ethical consciousness, maybe even stimulate a little discussion between you and your peers or family. In this quiz, try to pick the answer that is wrong. I hope the "wrong" answers are obvious if you care abou... more...

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Tuesday, 22nd July 2008 @ 12:09 PM

Each of us carries around within us a personal code of ethics. We may not be conscious of it; we may not deliberately consult it on a daily basis, we may not apply a decision tree against it to make a choice, but it exists. And, at times, it may falter, or we may apply different ethical principles in different situations. Take a minute to identify your fundamental ethical philosophy. Which of the descriptions below best captures the way you like to operate in the world? 1. Human... more...

Business » Ethics | By Cash Miller @ Friday, 18th July 2008 @ 11:30 AM

The pressures people face as entrepreneurs can at times become burdensome. You are the boss, the one person within your company that is ultimately responsible for everything that goes on. Sometimes you may feel all alone in the world that makes up your life. And sometimes the pressure can seem overwhelming. Being in business for yourself does not mean living in a perfect world. So when challenges arise and things become difficult remember what your own personal set of values and principles are. ... more...

Business » Ethics | By Amy Nutt @ Friday, 11th July 2008 @ 7:30 PM

Business ethics is an interesting branch of business theory, primarily because of the fact that they are inherently interesting in a market economy. People tend to be extremely distrustful of corporations in market economies and the bigger they are, the worse that problem of trust usually gets. Business ethics therefore are politically charged in many different circumstances and that in turn serves to make them interesting. Aside from this academic interest however, business ethics are also impo... more...

Business » Ethics | By Tim Wright @ Monday, 23rd June 2008 @ 12:56 PM

Integrity in business, especially on the internet, seems to be a quality that, unfortunately, is rarely found nowadays. The internet marketing world has become so glutted with hype, scams and empty promises that even the most trusting of us have become skeptical about the claims we're subjected to on a daily basis. So when we find a company or a person with real integrity, we're impressed, and much more likely to do business with them. Integrity is the basing of one's acti... more...

Business » Ethics | By Paul Johnson @ Friday, 13th June 2008 @ 4:37 AM

The probability that he will go to jail for what he did is almost zero. His lack of personal leadership resulted in thousands of people feeling violated, cheated and betrayed. If his patrons trusted him before, his impersonal approach to leadership shredded that trust in a matter of milliseconds. We won't give our support to leaders we don't trust. 2008 is an election year in the U.S., with selection of our next President taking the main stage. We want someone we can trust to le... more...

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Tuesday, 10th June 2008 @ 12:28 PM

You may think that business ethics pertains to OTHER people. You learned good ethics at your mother's knee. Well, what did she tell you about conflicts of interest? As a former Director, Ethics and Compliance for a $1.5B publicly traded organization, I learned a few important bits of information I would like to share with you. 1. A conflict of interest is when someone puts their own interest above those of the organization they work for. I found this to be the most common... more...

Business » Ethics | By Sally Rhys @ Monday, 9th June 2008 @ 7:07 AM

Wow -- every day seems to bring us a new story about business ethics wrongdoing! Is America headed to hell in a hand basket because of a serious lack of ethics at the highest level in American business? Or, it is just that ethical transgressions are more visible now? Or is it that the media reports more? Whichever it is, I urge you to be concerned about business ethics, even if simply for yourself. A few facts will raise your awareness about the current state of ethics in American bus... more...

Business » Ethics | By Catherine Harvey @ Monday, 19th May 2008 @ 11:08 PM

The UK is fast becoming the Health and Safety nightmare of the modern world. There are those who work in the care sector who are not allowed to come into physical contact with the people they care for fear of breaching some health and safety law, there are those in childcare who are not allowed to so much as apply a sticky plaster without a signed waver from the parent. Of course, to counteract all these nonsense rules we have health and safety training. You can go on a course if you want... more...

Business » Ethics | By Catherine Harvey @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 1:42 AM

When it comes to the use of office furniture there are several etiquette rules that should be observed and these rules will differ from office to office. What is acceptable in one place will be your downfall in another. Suss out the rules of your new office early on and you will be welcomed with open arms if you observe them in the decent way. Open plan offices take a great deal of delicate handling. Office furniture is often laid out in a manner where all workers are in fairly close prox... more...

Business » Ethics | By Billy Kite @ Friday, 18th April 2008 @ 9:02 AM

The Talmud cited the following incident: There was once a food shortage in Nehardea. All the people sold their mansions. Eventually, wheat arrived and Rav Nachman told them that the law is that the mansions must be returned to their original owners. The Talmud notes that the reason why sales are void is because they were made in error, since it became known that the ship carrying the wheat was waiting in the port at the time the mansions were sold. The Talmud in the daf yomi adds t... more...

Business » Ethics | By Melissa Vokoun @ Tuesday, 8th April 2008 @ 5:02 PM

The environment of your workplace is vital to employee satisfaction, reduction of turnover, and productivity. It is also vital to the legal stability of your business. A hostile work environment can be the basis for many types of employee complaints and causes of legal action. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists as a basis for employee complaints the existence of a "hostile work environment." The creation or continuation of a hostile workplace environment can be... more...

Business » Ethics | By Linda Dipman @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 6:18 AM

Recently my son, who is a minister with a master in divinity from the South Western Baptist Theological Seminary, in Dallas, Texas was fired from his job. He had put years of service into the biggest First Southern Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas as their Video Production Engineer. He was highly praised and he was known by the nickname of 'Wonder Boy', all because he could run the television ministry with ease. He also directed, produced, managed a large staff, and even ins... more...

Business » Ethics | By Leslie Parchment @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 3:10 AM

The ethics of buying a fake doctors excuse is a hot topic of debate these days. Although opinion varies, the fact is that thousands of people each day buy fake doctors notes to miss work or delay a test at school. This is not surprising when you think that most of us have told a "little white lie" at one time in our lives. Many would say that small lies are so common from politicians to used car salesmen that we often take them for granted. Clearly, we all have our own set of ethics we f... more...

Business » Ethics | By Court Tuttle @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 11:22 PM

That question has already been answered to the extent of jail terms, lost pensions, personal disgrace and yet that is only the tip of the iceberg. We as human beings must build organizations in which freedom and personal initiative can cohabit with cooperation, caring and a highly integrated harmony or all is lost. Hard times are not coming they are here. They call into question more self-indulgent goals such as quality of work, life and minimizing the environmental degradation. What g... more...

Business » Ethics | By Catherine Harvey @ Monday, 25th February 2008 @ 1:58 AM

After leaving school, I was quite desperate to get myself into work and took this secretarial job as a fill in. Five years on and I'm still here. I'm still churning out letters from our antiquated printer that only works if you thump it six inches in from the back and for which Mr Parker will only buy cheap ink cartridges. Cheap ink cartridges are all very well if you get them from a reputable company but not Mr Parker. We don't need reputable, he says, we need cheap. Cheap... more...

Business » Ethics | By Jonathon Hardcastle @ Saturday, 9th February 2008 @ 6:31 PM

Running a business on credit is one of the most professional things you can do, whilst also becoming one of the most risky. As soon as you offer credit to your customers you are opening yourself up for severely late payment, or worse still, no payment at all, which can be crippling for any business. For this reason it is imperative that you maintain strong credit control to minimize the risks to your business without damaging customer relations. The first line of defense against late an... more...

Business » Ethics | By Lisa Burkhardt @ Sunday, 20th January 2008 @ 1:32 PM

As an owner of a home-based business, you will have to learn to stay focused on your goals/reasons why you originally chose this direction. It is so easy to become distracted when you are working from home; since there are always a hundred other things that need your attention. Think about all those days when you were at your j.o.b. and you would think if I were home I could be getting so much done. Training yourself to stay focused on your home-based business can prove to be a challenge. more...