Ethics

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Table of Contents

1. Table of Content ...............................................................1

2. Executive Summary ............................................................2

3. Introduction .....................................................................3

4. Importance of Individual Ethics..............................................4

5. Ethics within The Organizations ................................. ...........6

Defining Organizational Ethics......................................6

Ethical issues...........................................................6

6. Non market issues influencing organizations...............................8

7. Conclusion......................................................................10

Executive summary :

The behavior of organizations and ethical activities are expected in every society. Overall, individual ethics is the most common, as there are more individuals than there are groups and organizations. Organizations have a responsibility to their employees, customers, investors ,community and the environment surrounding it .Law ,stockholders, activist ,and media ....etc are non market dimensions that individual and organization should consider when conducting business because of their direct impact on the society surrounding theme .

Introduction:

Work is a game of survival. And money is the desired ends. Money is necessary for survival, so competition arises among fellow workers, and organizations .Individual needs are placed above the common good, and society degenerates into "survival of the fittest" mentality.

Ethics can be defined as a process of evaluating actions according to moral principal of values .Throughout the century's people were trying to choose between profit and moral. Perhaps, some of them obtain both, but every time it could have roused ethical issues. Those issues concern fairness, justice, rightness or wrongness; as a result it can only be resolved according to ethical standards.

Ethics, in the broadest sense of the word, is rising to the top of the corporate agenda. The study of ethics has become increasingly important with global business expansion, because of an increase in ethical and social responsibility; Behaviors that were once thought unacceptable for example lying, cheating, misrepresenting, and covering up mistakes, have become in many people's eyes acceptable or necessary practices. The paper will cover ethical issues concerning individual, and organization.

Importance of...