MGMT 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Moral Treatment, Normative Ethics, Business Ethics
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Interest in business ethics has heightened in the past years as society started to become more critical when it came to the issue of ethics. Many major corporations have had many major ethical issues in the past years and have caused a lot of buzz around them. The media themselves also have many ethical issues they need to explain. 45% of people surveyed have a negative view about business ethics in the past year. 43% felt that morality and ethics are among the biggest concerns for business leaders. There is a growing interest in business ethics. The pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449) a(cid:271)out (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess ethi(cid:272)s has (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:271)ee(cid:374) high a(cid:374)d ofte(cid:374) (cid:448)ie(cid:449) it as ironic, they think that there is a fine line between a business executive and a crook. Polls on ethics in different professions comes to show that people do not think business executives have high moral standards like doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
