Business Ethics
How to behave towards oneself and toward other individuals is a matter of making choices: whether to be friendly or unfriendly, whether to tell the truth or lie, whether to be generous or greedy, whether to study in order to pass an exam or to spend valuable study time watching television and cheat to pass it. These, and all other questions about how people act towards themselves and one another are dealt with in a field of study called ethics.
Another name for ethics is morality. Because both words suggest customary ways of behavior, they are somewhat misleading. It has to do with what should or should not be done. Divide practical wisdom into two parts: moral philosophy and political philosophy. They are defined together as a “true reasoned state of capacity to act with regard to the things that are good or bad for man”(Drucker, 1996). One area of the problem is business organizations. They are plagued by the fact that there are liars, cheats and thieves among them. Liars, cheats, and thieves are not new, nor are they likely to disappear. People will do anything to get
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