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Post: Business and Society 10e
Business and Society: Corporate Strategy, Public Policy, Ethics, 10/e
James Post, Boston University
Anne T Lawrence, San Jose State University
James Weber, Duquesne University
Ethical Dilemmas in Business

Chapter Objectives

People who work in business-managers and employees alike-frequently encounter and must deal with on-the-job ethical issues. Learning how to recognize the different kinds of ethical dilemmas and knowing why they occur are important business skills. The costs to business and to society of unethical and illegal behavior are very large. A business firm is more likely to gain public approval and social legitimacy if it adheres to basic ethical principles and society's laws.

This chapter focuses on these key questions and objectives:


1

What is ethics? What is business ethics?

2

Why should business be ethical?

3

Why do ethics problems occur in business?

4

What efforts are being made to curtail unethical practices around the world?

5

Are ethical behavior and legal behavior the same?




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