Business Ehics

Business Ethics

Business ethics is a part of general ethics, we can start with that wider topic.

What ethics studies is a morality. Morality is a term used to cover those practises and activities that are considered importantly right and wrong; the rules that govern those activities; and the values that are embedded, fostered, or pursued by those activietes and practises . The morality of a society is related to its mores, or the customs accepted by a society or a group as being right and wrong, as well as to those laws of a society that add legal prohibitions and sanctions to many activities considered to be immoral.

Ethics in general can be defined as a systematic attempt to make a sence of our individual and social moral experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing, and the character traits deserving development in life. The attempt is systematic and therefore goes beyond what reflective peple tend to do in daily life in making sence of their moral experience, organizing it, and attempting to make coherent and unified. If one approaches ethics through revelation––for instance, through the Bible or through religious teachings––we can speak of theological or religios ethics. If––as we shall do one–approaches ethics prescinding from revelation and religious belief, and using only arguments based on reasons applied to nonreligious human experience, we can speak of philosophical ethics. Insofar as it attempts ascertain what rules and values ought to be followed and pursued, philosophical ethics can be distinguished from antropology, psychology, and sociology. Those disciplines describe how people behave, but usually do not prescribe how they ought to behave. Ethics concerns itself with human conduct, taken here to mean human activity that is done knowingly and, to a large extent, willingly. It does not concern itself with automatic responces, or with for example,...