Chapter 5 Ethics And Social Responsibility Flashcards
Compliance-based ethics codes
Ethical standards that emphasize preventing unlawful behaviour by increasing control and penalizing wrongdoers
Integrity-based ethics codes
Ethical standards that define the organizations guiding values, creating an environment that supports ethically sound behaviour and stress a shared accountability amount employees
Whistle blowers
People who report illegal or unethical behaviour
Corporate social responsibility
Businesses concern for the welfare of society
Corporate philanthropy
Dimension of social responsibility that includes charitable donations
Corporate responsibly
Includes everything from hiring minority workers to making safe products
Corporate policy
Refers to the position a firm takes on social and political issues
Sustainable development
Implementing a process that integrates, environment, economic and slick cosier rations into decision making
Ethics
Standards of moral behaviour, behaviour that is accepted by society as right vs. Wrong