Business

La’Wanda Caldwell

Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility

MGT/216

December 05, 2011

Sometimes in life people tend to feel as if ethics and morals only pertain to how an individual treats each other or how groups of people treat others who differ from them in any way. In this world today both ethics and morals are necessity in the business world. Morally with each passing year, the business world is obtaining the focus of the world’s attention because employees are operating with a lack of ethics and morals. In this paper below, I will explain the differences between ethical and moral issues from a business aspect and the differences between personal and business ethics.

There are few companies that do not battle with ethical or moral issues within their own businesses. Although many employers strive to maintain an ethical and morally environment, this can become difficult in many ways. Ethical issue is defined as, a problem or situation, in which requires a person or organization to choose a option that must be determine as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical), (Ethical, n.d.). A moral issue often belongs to the actions or characteristics of an individual or group of individuals. In dealing with a business or a person, ethics, and moral plays an important role. Although some believe that ethics and morals have the same meaning, they do not. Cloning is an example of a moral issue within the business world.

Ethical issues pertain to the right and wrong of certain actions sometimes lead by a motive and always pose a consequence. The main difference with business ethics is that the actions and choices do not have...