Discussion 2 - Business Ethics

Topic: Business Ethics

This week's textbook reading talks about business ethics.

If you received a very good salary would you be prepared to work for a tobacco company or for a company which damaged the environment?  Explain your answer and justify it. Draw upon personal experience if you can.  Reference ethical terms from the textbook in your answer as you explain your ethical stance on the situation. 150 word minimum

Purpose: This discussion addresses these module goals:

• Identify potential ethical issues faced by a business
• Express the potential ramifications a business can face when behaving unethically
• Distinguish between temporary, frequently repeated, and permanent business strategies in relation to deviations from ethical standards.

Make your initial posting by 11:45 PM Pacific time on Wednesday. 100 word minimum

Respond to at least 2 classmates (with video or text) by 11:59PM Pacific Time on Friday. 50 word minimum. Responses may include describing your own life experience or other real-world situation related to the post, adding additional information from assigned content or outside content, disagreeing respectfully by describing your own interpretation, proposing a new idea, or asking a probing question. Try to respond to a classmate who haven't received any responses yet.