Ethical

Un Ethical

Illegal Legal

Ethical but Illegal

Unethical and Illegal

Ethical and Legal

Unethical but Legal

CLASSIFYING BUSINESS DECISIONS-I

Ethical

Un Ethical

Illegal Legal

CLASSIFYING BUSINESS DECISIONS-II

• Promoting PG rated movies to young teens• Producing products that you know will break before their time

• Embezzling money• Engaging in sexual harassment• Practicing collusion with competitors• Encouraging fraudulent accounting

• Producing top quality products• Rewarding integrity• Leading by example• Providing employee benefits• Contributing to community• Establishing recycling programs

• Providing rock-bottom prices only to distributors in underserved areas• Collaborating with other medical clinics to guarantee low prices in low-income countries

•Dumping. This is an unfair business practice that sometimes big companies employ in order to destroy the local competition. This is done by flooding the market with the big company’s product, which are sold at loss, but at much lower price than the competition.

•Labor union opposition. This is one of the classic examples of unethical business practices. Employees are prevented from forming a labor union that can represent their interests. One of the biggest companies that has this policy is Wal-Mart. They instead have the open doors policy which allows and encourages every employee the right to take their complaints beyond management level.

•Discriminating employees on the basis of sex, race, or religion; Equality in the work place is now guaranteed by law, but the actual acceptance of people, who have different skin color, or opinions, is a long way away for almost all societies.

•Copying the style of packaging in order to mislead the consumer. This is usually done by smaller companies who produce lesser quality products and try to pass them off as high quality goods by using a brand name for example that can mislead the consumer in thinking it’s a much more famous brand name.

•Deception on size and content of a product. This is one of the most often seen examples of unethical business practices. It refers to deception in advertising. A product can be made out to appear much bigger, or have a much more significant content, than it really does.

•Omitting to provide side effect information. This is another example of unethical business practices.

•Incomplete or inaccurate testing of products. This is the domain of the public authorities who have the obligation to ensure that every product that goes out in the market is tested beforehand.

UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES

Sweatshop (or sweat factory) is a term for any working environment considered to

be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours

for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum

wage. Child Labor laws may be violated. Sweatshops may have hazardous materials and situations. Employees may be subject to employer abuse without an easy way, if

any, to protect themselves.

SWEATSHOP

What is Child Labour?

Child Labour” is work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way e.g.

PhysicallyMentallymorally or blocking access to education

30% of our country’s total population is leading life below the poverty-line, in which the people are deprived ofbasic necessities of life like clothing, shelter, food,education and medication, the children of these peoplewill be forced to become Labourers' or workers in order tosurvive.

Our people are not aware of the importance of education. Class-based education system is another reason for increasing child Labour as a result, child Labour is increase in rural areas.

The government has not put its laws into practice to stop child Labour in our country that’s why child labour is increasing day by day.

Causes

Workplace Deviance

Workplace Deviance

Unethical behavior that violates organizational norms about right and wrong

Two dimensions Degree of deviance Target of deviant behavior

Types of Workplace Deviance

Production Deviance

Production Deviance

Property DevianceProperty Deviance

Political DeviancePolitical Deviance

Personal AggressionPersonal

Aggression

Minor Serious

Organizational

Interpersonal

9

Production Deviance

Leaving earlyTaking excessive breaksIntentionally working slowWasting resources

10

Property Deviance

Sabotaging equipment

Accepting kickbacks

Lying about hours worked

Stealing from company

22

11

Political Deviance

Showing favoritismGossiping about

coworkersBlaming coworkersCompeting

nonbeneficially

12

Personal Aggression

Sexual harassmentVerbal abuseStealing from coworkersEndangering coworkers

13

Doing the Right Thing

If You Cheat in College, Will You Cheat in the Workplace?

College students who cheat are likely to cheat again.

70 percent of students don’t see cheating as a problem.

People who cheat and cheat again see their behavior as normal.

60 percent of people who cheat their employers don’t feel guilty for doing so.

If You Cheat in College, Will You Cheat in the Workplace?

College students who cheat are likely to cheat again.

70 percent of students don’t see cheating as a problem.

People who cheat and cheat again see their behavior as normal.

60 percent of people who cheat their employers don’t feel guilty for doing so.

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING STYLES

• Individualists• Driven by natural reason, personal survival etc. Self is the source of all actions

• Altruists• Concerned with other people. Relinquish their own security for others

• Pragmatists• Concerned with situation at hand, not with the self or other. Bases of moral authority is the perceived need at the moment and the potential consequences of a decision in a specific context.

• Idealists• Driven by principles, rules and values. Reason and relationships will not substitute for idealist’s adherence to principles.