Establishment of corporate culture through ethical values

Establishment of Corporate Culture through Ethical Values

By Kathleen Ramirez, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

CHAPTER 1

 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

1. Conceptual framework

Business ethics is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and business organizations as a whole. Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions in many fields such as medical, technical, legal and business ethics.

The enterprise ethics is the enterprise in dealing with employees, business and society, business and customer relationship between the sums of a code of conduct. The main activities in accordance with the ethics of different organizations, enterprises can be divided into personal morality and professional ethics. Corporate ethics and social morality is not only an important component of the system, but also social and moral principles in a concrete manifestation of the enterprise. It is the personification of the enterprises in the production and operation activities, in the natural search. Social interactions, to be followed by the enterprise and the State seek to regulate. Enterprises and other enterprises, enterprises and competition, the enterprise and the object of service object and internal various aspects of the relationship between total behaviour.

Business ethics can be both a normative and a descriptive discipline. As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. In academia descriptive approaches are also taken. The range and quantity of business ethical issues reflects the degree to which business is perceived to be at odds with non-economic social values. Historically, interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, today most major corporate websites lay emphasis on commitment to promoting non-economic social values under a variety of headings. In some cases, corporations have redefined their core values in the light of business ethical consideration.

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