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经商和道德Business and EthicsMost people learn from the TV series that businessmen are mean and immoral, they can do what they want in order to achieve the biggest profit. In reality, some businessman indeed chase for the possible profit at the cost of being lack of ethics, while others believe that business ethics helps further success. I agree with the latter.大部分人从电视剧上了解到商人是自私和不道德的，他们为了达到最大的利润，可以不惜一切手段。
在现实生活中，一些商人确实为了追求利润，以道德的确实为代价，然而另外一些人相信商业道德能让他们得到更大的成功。
我同意后者。
Business ethics helps a company to keep long term cooperative relationship with employees and customers. First, some bosses to get more incomes at the basis of reducing the employees’wellbeing, it will cause the employees get dissatisfied with the company and they come to job-hopping, then the company need to recruit another new employees, retrain them again, it will cost time and waste resources, the company can’t run well during the unstable change. Second, if a company has a good reputation, customers are willing to buy their products and keep businesswith the company. On the contrary, no one is willing to buy the company’s products which is immoral, the product may be not in good quality, it will do harm to people’s health.商业道德能让一个公司和员工以及顾客保持长期的合作关系。
商业伦理作文英语Business Ethics。
Business ethics is the study of proper businesspolicies and practices regarding potentially controversial issues, such as corporate governance, insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility, and fiduciary responsibilities. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.One of the most important aspects of business ethics is corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is the idea that businesses should balance profit-making activities with activities that benefit society. This includes being environmentally friendly, providing fair wages and benefits to employees, and giving back to the community throughphilanthropic activities. Many companies today are judged not just on their financial performance, but also on how they contribute to society and the environment.Another important aspect of business ethics is the treatment of employees. It is important for businesses to treat their employees fairly and with respect. This means providing fair wages, safe working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. It also means not discriminating against employees based on factors such as race, gender, or sexual orientation.In addition to the treatment of employees, businesses also have a responsibility to their customers. This includes providing high-quality products and services, being honest in advertising and sales practices, and respecting customer privacy. Businesses should also strive to resolve customer complaints and issues in a fair and timely manner.Business ethics also extends to the relationships businesses have with their suppliers and partners. It isimportant for businesses to be honest and fair in their dealings with suppliers, and to ensure that their partners and collaborators adhere to the same ethical standards.Finally, business ethics also encompasses the behaviorof individuals within the organization. This includes avoiding conflicts of interest, maintaining confidentiality, and not engaging in insider trading or other unethical financial practices.In conclusion, business ethics is an important aspectof running a successful business. By adhering to ethical principles and practices, businesses can build trust with their stakeholders, including customers, employees, and the community. This can lead to long-term success and sustainability for the business, as well as a positive impact on society as a whole.Business Ethics in Action: The Case of Patagonia。
经商和道德Business and Ethics大学英语作文Most people learn from the TV series that businessmen are mean and immoral, they can do what they want in order to achieve the biggest profit. In reality, some businessman indeed chase for the possible profit at the cost of being lack of ethics, while others believe that business ethics helps further success. I agree with the latter.大部分人从电视剧上了解到商人是自私和不道德的，他们为了达到最大的利润，可以不惜一切手段。
在现实生活中，一些商人确实为了追求利润，以道德的确实为代价，然而另外一些人相信商业道德能让他们得到更大的成功。
我同意后者。
Business ethics helps a company to keep long term cooperative relationship with employees and customers. First, some bosses to get more incomes at the basis of reducing the employees’wellbeing, it will cause the employees get dissatisfied with the company and they come to job-hopping, then the company need to recruit another new employees, retrain them again, it will cost time and waste resources, the company can’t run well during the unstable change. Second, if a company has a goodreputation, customers are willing to buy their products and keep business with the company. On the contrary, no one is willing to buy the company’s products which is immoral, the product may be not in good quality, it will do harm to people’s health.商业道德能让一个公司和员工以及顾客保持长期的合作关系。
一、判断题1、Ethical strategies are the accepted principles of right or wrong governing the conduct of businesspeople.正确答案：×2、What is considered normal business practice in one country may be considered unethical in other countries.正确答案：√3、The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act outlawed the paying of bribes to foreign government officials to gain business.正确答案：√4、Facilitating payments are also known as speed money or grease payments.正确答案：√5、The ethical obligations of a multinational corporation toward employment conditions, human rights, environmental pollution, and the use of power are always clear-cut.正确答案：×6、Ethical dilemmas exist because many real-world decisions involve first-, second-, and third-order consequences that are hard to quantify.正确答案：√7、Straw men approaches to business ethics offer appropriate guidelines for ethical decision making in a multinational enterprise.正确答案：×8、The utilitarian approach to ethics is a straw men approach to business ethics that has some inherent value, but is unsatisfactory in important ways.正确答案：×9、Milton Friedman's basic position is that the only social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays within the rules of law.正确答案：√10、According to the cultural relativism point-of-view, a firm should adopt the ethics of the culture in which it is operating.正确答案：√11、According to the righteous moralist, if a manager of a multinational sees that firms from other nations are not following ethical norms in a host nation, that manager should not either.正确答案：×12、Most moral philosophers see value in utilitarian and Kantian approaches to business ethics. 正确答案：√13、Rights theories recognize that human rights and privileges are culturally determined and vary from country to country正确答案：×14、Moral courage enables managers to walk away from a decision that is profitable but unethical. 正确答案：A15、To establish moral intent, managers need to stand in the shoes of a stakeholder and ask how a proposed decision might impact that stakeholder.正确答案：×二、单选题16、Which of the following was designed to allow GM to operate ethically in South Africa as long as the company did not obey the apartheid laws in its own South African operations?A.Sullivan principlesB.The righteous moral systemC.Noblesse obligD.Cultural relativism正确答案：A17、Identify the INCORRECT statement about environmental regulationsA.Environmental regulations are often lacking in developing nationsB.Environmental regulations are similar across developed and developing nations.C.Developed nations have substantial regulations governing the emission of pollutants, the dumping of toxic chemicals, etc.D.Inferior environmental regulations in host nations, as compared to home nation, can lead to ethical issues.正确答案：B18、Which of the following observations about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is true?A.There is enough evidence that it put U.S. firms at a competitive disadvantage.B.The act outlawed the paying of bribes to foreign government officials to gain business.C.The act allowed for "facilitating payments."D.he Nike case was the impetus for the 1977 passage of this act.正确答案：B19、The Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions excludes:A.bribes made to secure contracts that would otherwise not be secured.B.grease payments to gain exclusive preferential treatment.C.facilitating payments made to expedite routine government action.D.payments to government officials for special privileges.正确答案：C20、The idea that businesspeople should consider the social consequences of economic actions when making business decisions and that there should be a presumption in favor of decisions that have both good economic and social consequences is known as:A.moral relativism.B.noblesse obligeC.ethical dilemma.D.social responsibility正确答案：D21、Expatriate managers may experience more than the usual degree of pressure to violate their personal ethics because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT:A.they are away from their ordinary social context and supporting culture.B.they are psychologically and geographically closer to the parent company.C.they may be based in a culture that does not place the same value on ethical norms important in the manager's home country.D.they may be surrounded by local employees who have less rigorous ethical standards.正确答案：B22、According to _____, the social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays within the rules of law.A.the naive immoralistB.the righteous moralistC.cultural relativismD.the Friedman doctrine正确答案：D23、Cultural relativism suggests that:A.a firm should adopt the ethics of the culture in which it is operating.B.the only social responsibility of a firm is to increase profits.C.a firm's ethical policies should remain the same in all cultures.D.a multinational should follow its home-country cultural practices in all the host-countries where it has operations.正确答案：A24、Child labor is permitted and widely employed in Country X. A multinational company entering Country X decides to employ minors in its subsidiary, even though it is against the multinational's home-country ethics. Which of the following approaches to business ethics would justify the actions of the multinational company?A.Righteous moralistB.Cultural relativismC.The justice theoryD.The rights theory正确答案：B25、The righteous moralist suggests that:A.ethics are nothing more than the reflection of culture.B.a multinational's home-country standards of ethics are the appropriate ones for companies to follow in foreign countries.C.the social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays within the rules of law.D.if a manager of a multinational sees that firms from other nations are not following ethical norms in a host nation, that manager should not either.正确答案：B26、According to the naive immoralist,:A.a multinational's home-country standards of ethics are the appropriate ones for companies to follow in foreign countries.B.the social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays within the rules of law.C.ethics are nothing more than the reflection of a culture.D.if firms in a host nation do not follow ethical norms then the manager of a multinational should also not follow ethical norms there.正确答案：D27、The utilitarian approach to business ethics suggests that:A.people should be treated as ends and never purely as means to the ends of others.B.the moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequencesC.people have dignity and need to be treated as such.D.human beings have fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national cultures.正确答案：B28、The Kantian approach to ethics suggests that:A.human beings have fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries.B.the moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequencesC.people should be treated as ends and never purely as means to the ends of others.D.ethics are nothing more than the reflection of culture正确答案：C29、Identify the correct statement about the rights theories.A.Human beings have fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries.B.The moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequencesC.People should be treated as ends never purely as means to the ends of others.D.The only social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays within the rules of law.正确答案：A30、Justice theories of business ethics focus on:A.the moral worth of actions or actices.B.minimum levels of morally acceptable behavior.C.fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries.D.the attainment of an equitable distribution of goods and services.正确答案：D。
经商和道德Busi ness and Ethics大学英语作文Most people lear n from the TV series that bus in essme n are mea n and immoral, they can do what they want in order to achieve the biggest profit. In reality, some bus in essma n in deed chase for the possible profit at the cost of being lack of ethics, while others believe that bus in ess ethics helps further success. I agree with the latter.大部分人从电视剧上了解到商人是自私和不道德的，他们为了达到最大的利润，可以不惜一切手段。
在现实生活中，一些商人确实为了追求利润，以道德的确实为代价，然而另外一些人相信商业道德能让他们得到更大的成功。
我同意后者。
Bus in ess ethics helps a compa ny to keep long term cooperative relati on ship with employees and customers. First, some bosses to get more in comes at the basis of reduc ing the employees ' wellbe in g, it will cause the employees get dissatisfied with the company and they come to job-hopping, then the company need to recruit ano ther new employees, retrain them aga in, it will cost time and waste resources, the company can ' t run well during the unstablechange. Second, if a company has a goodreputation, customers are willing to buy their products andkeep bus in ess with the compa ny. On the con trary, no one is willing to buy the company ' s products which is immoral, the product may be not in good quality, it will do harm to people ' s health.商业道德能让一个公司和员工以及顾客保持长期的合作关系。
Book 4 Unit 6 Section Bribery and Business EthicsLead-in: Our topic today is “Bribery”. Like it or not, almost every day witnesses reports about government officials accused of taking bribes. In effect, bribery has become an international disease. A s the world trade grows, so does bribery. Today let‟s take a closer look into the issue:Q1: In what forms does bribery come?1) Money;2) Goods;3) Services;4) Securities or stock shares;5) Extra discounts;6) Nepotism;Q2: What's the negative effect of commercial bribery?1) Undermining the basic principles of market economy and market order;2) Hindering fair competition / affecting the investment environment;3) Damaging the legitimate rights and interests / leading to a lot of unexpected public events and other social problems;Q3: What can we do to restore ethics in business?1)Primary focus should be on separation of business from politics;2) Uproot the regional protectionism; 3) Cultivate a strong sense of fairness and honesty; Interactive Analysis of TextPart I Problem (Para. 1-4)Q1: Why do students feel surprised when they find business ethics included in their business courses?A: Because they often do not realize that bribery in various forms is on the increase. (Para. 1) Q2: What will a businessman choose to do if he wants to make it easier to get an import license for his goods? Example?A: He may choose to stand by his principles, but, in practice, he usually prefers to bribe the official in charge. (Para. 3)Q3: What other questionable practices do businessmen adopt in addition to giving money?A: They tend to pay agents and purchasers an exaggerated commission, offer additional discounts, and make payments to numbered bank accounts in Switzerland. (Para. 3)Q4: Why is bribery on the increase?A: Because it seems to have become a fact of commercial life. (Para. 4)Para. 11. Students taking …in their schedule. 商科学生对课程里包含商业道德课有时略感吃惊。
Bribery and Business EthicsStudents taking business courses are sometimes a little surprised to find that classes on business ethics have been included in their schedule. They often do not realize that bribery in various forms is on the increase in many countries and, in some, has been a way of life for centuries.Suppose that during a negotiation with some government officials, the Minister of Trade makes it clear to you that if you offer him a substantial bribe, you will find it much easier to get an import license for your goods, and you are also likely to avoid "procedural delays", as he puts it. Now, the question is: do you pay up or stand by your principles?It is easy to talk about having high moral standards but, in practice, what would one really do in such a situation? Some time ago a British car manufacturer was accused of operating a fund to pay bribes, and of other questionable practices such as paying agents and purchasers an exaggerated commission, offering additional discounts, and making payments to numbered bank accounts in Switzerland. The company rejected these charges and they were later withdrawn. Nevertheless, at that time, there were people in the motor industry in Britain who were prepared to say in private: "Look, we're in a very competitive business. Every year we're selling more than a ￡1,000 million worth of cars abroad. If we spend a few million pounds to keep some of the buyers happy, who's hurt? If we didn't do it, someone else would."It is difficult to resist the impression that bribery and other questionable payments are on the increase. Indeed, they seem to have become a fact of commercial life. To take just one example, the Chrysler Corporation, third largest of the U.S. car manufacturers, revealed that it made questionable payments of more than $2.5 million between 1971 and 1976. By announcing this, it joined more than 300 other U.S. companies that had admitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they had made payments of one kind or another — bribes, extra discounts, etc. — in recent years. For discussion purposes, we can divide these payments into three broad categories.The first category consists of substantial payments made for political purposes orto secure major contracts. For example, one U.S. corporation offered a large sum of money in support of a U.S. presidential candidate at a time when the company was under investigation for possible violations of U. S. business laws. This same company, it was revealed, was ready to finance secret U.S. efforts to throw out the government of Chile.In this category, we may also include large payments made to ruling families or their close advisers in order to secure arms sales or major petroleum or construction contracts. In a court case involving an arms deal with Iran, a witness claimed that ￡1 million had been paid by a British company to a "negotiator" who helped close a deal for the supply of tanks and other military equipment to that country. Other countries have also been known to put pressure on foreign companies to make donations to party bank accounts.The second category covers payments made to obtain quicker official approval of some project, to speed up the wheels of government. An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country. Finally, he hit upon the answer. Discovering that the minister collected rare books, he bought a rare edition of a book, slipped $20,000 within its pages, then presented it to the minister. This man examined its contents, then said: "I understand there is a two-volume edition of this work." The sales manager, who was quick-witted, replied: "My company cannot afford a two-volume edition, sir, but we could offer you a copy with a preface!" A short time later, the deal was approved.The third category involves payments made in countries where it is traditional to pay people to help with the passage of a business deal. Some Middle East countries would be included on this list, as well as certain Asian countries.Is it possible to devise a code of rules for companies that would prohibit bribery in all its forms? The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) favors a code of conduct that would ban the giving and seeking of bribes. This code would try to distinguish between commissions paid for real services and exaggerated fees that really amount to bribes. A council has been proposed to manage the code.Unfortunately, opinions differ among members of the ICC concerning how to enforce the code. The British members would like the system to have enough legal power to make companies behave themselves. However, the French delegates think it is the business of governments to make and impose law; the job of a business community like the ICC is to say what is right and wrong, but not to impose anything.In a well-known British newspaper, a writer argued recently that "industry is caught in a web of bribery" and that everyone is "on the take";. This is probably an exaggeration. However, today's businessman, selling in overseas markets, will frequently meet situations where it is difficult to square his business interests with his moral conscience.王之钰A01314374。
