Xmgt 216 Week 8 Assignment

Business Ethics Across the World

[YOUR NAME HERE]

Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility - XMGT/216

May 19, 2013

Jo Ann Johnson

Have you ever considered how globalization has not only brought countries closer together, but also how it has created a unified ethical perspective for countries doing business together? Management teams are finding out that there is a world of ethical challenges waiting to be discovered through the increased development of globalization. If ethics are a problem within a country, imagine the challenges that arise when the language is foreign, cultures are diverse, and the number of people involved grows to a global scale. In this paper we are going to discuss two articles which cover the ethical perspectives of India and China, how these articles contribute to understanding global ethics, and how India’s and China’s business ethics compare to that of the United States.

Santa Clara University published an article written by Stephen Rothlin called “Business Ethics in the Chinese Context” that discussed some of the progress China made in 2006 and 2007 in business ethics. Stephen Rothlin is the general secretary of the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing. In January 2008, Rothlin updated the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership with the progress he had seen since his last visit in 2006. Rothlin discussed six categories including; consumer rights, anti-corruption activity, environmental sustainability, community contribution, and criteria for ethical companies. In each of the six categories he discussed both improvements seen and recommended areas that needed attention for improvement (Business Ethics in the Chinese Context , 2008).

China’s worker rights and labor standards have improved through the development of their Labor Contract Law that now protects China’s longtime employees from being fired from a position without specific cause. It also requires...