Деловая этика

Деловая этика (также известная как корпоративная этика ) — это форма прикладной этики или профессиональной этики , которая исследует этические принципы и моральные или этические проблемы, которые могут возникнуть в деловой среде. Он применим ко всем аспектам делового поведения и имеет отношение к поведению отдельных лиц и целых организаций. Эта этика исходит из отдельных лиц, заявлений организаций или правовой системы. Эти нормы, ценности, этические и неэтичные практики являются принципами, которыми руководствуется бизнес.

Деловая этика относится к современным организационным стандартам, принципам, наборам ценностей и норм, которые управляют действиями и поведением человека в деловой организации. Деловая этика имеет два измерения: нормативную деловую этику и описательную деловую этику. Как корпоративная практика и карьерная специализация, эта область носит преимущественно нормативный характер. Ученые, пытающиеся понять поведение бизнеса, используют описательные методы. Диапазон и количество проблем деловой этики отражает взаимодействие поведения, направленного на максимизацию прибыли, с неэкономическими проблемами.

Interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, most major corporations today promote their commitment to non-economic values under headings such as ethics codes and social responsibility charters.

Adam Smith said in 1776, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Governments use laws and regulations to point business behavior in what they perceive to be beneficial directions. Ethics implicitly regulates areas and details of behavior that lie beyond governmental control. The emergence of large corporations with limited relationships and sensitivity to the communities in which they operate accelerated the development of formal ethics regimes.

Maintaining an ethical status is the responsibility of the manager of the business. According to a 1990 article in the Journal of Business Ethics, "Managing ethical behavior is one of the most pervasive and complex problems facing business organizations today."

History

Business ethics reflect the norms of each historical period. As time passes, norms evolve, causing accepted behaviors to become objectionable. Business ethics and the resulting behavior evolved as well. Business was involved in slavery, colonialism, and the Cold War.

The term 'business ethics' came into common use in the United States in the early 1970s. By the mid-1980s at least 500 courses in business ethics reached 40,000 students, using some twenty textbooks and at least ten casebooks supported by professional societies, centers and journals of business ethics. The Society for Business Ethics was founded in 1980. European business schools adopted business ethics after 1987 commencing with the European Business Ethics Network. In 1982 the first single-authored books in the field appeared.

Firms began highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly in an attempt to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis. The concept of business ethics caught the attention of academics, media and business firms by the end of the Cold War. However, criticism of business practices was attacked for infringing the freedom of entrepreneurs and critics were accused of supporting communists. This scuttled the discourse of business ethics both in media and academia. The Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII) was created to support corporate ethical conduct. This era began the belief and support of self-regulation and free trade, which lifted tariffs and barriers and allowed businesses to merge and divest in an increasing global atmosphere.

Religious and philosophical origins

One of the earliest written treatments of business ethics is found in the Tirukkuṛaḷ, a Tamil book dated variously from 300 BCE to the 7th century CE and attributed to Thiruvalluvar. Many verses discuss business ethics, in particular, verse 113, adapting to a changing environment in verses 474, 426, and 140, learning the intricacies of different tasks in verses 462 and 677.

Overview

Business ethics reflects the philosophy of business, of which one aim is to determine the fundamental purposes of a company. Business purpose expresses the company's reason for existing. Modern discussion on the purpose of business has been freshened by views from thinkers such as Richard R. Ellesworth, Peter Drucker, and Nikos Mourkogiannis: Earlier views such as Milton Friedman's held that the purpose of a business organization is to make profit for shareholders. Nevertheless, the purpose of maximizing shareholder's wealth often "fails to energize employees". In practice, many non-shareholders also benefit from a firm's economic activity, among them employees through contractual compensation and its broader impact, consumers by the tangible or non-tangible value derived from their purchase choices; society as a whole through taxation and/or the company's involvement in social action when it occurs. On the other hand, if a company's purpose is to maximize shareholder returns, then sacrificing profits for other concerns is a violation of its fiduciary responsibility. Corporate entities are legal persons but this does not mean they are legally entitled to all of the rights and liabilities as natural persons.

Ethics are the rules or standards that govern our decisions on a daily basis. Many consider "ethics" with conscience or a simplistic sense of "right" and "wrong". Others would say that ethics is an internal code that governs an individual's conduct, ingrained into each person by family, faith, tradition, community, laws, and personal mores. Corporations and professional organizations, particularly licensing boards, generally will have a written code of ethics that governs standards of professional conduct expected of all in the field. It is important to note that "law" and "ethics" are not synonymous, nor are the "legal" and "ethical" courses of action in a given situation necessarily the same. Statutes and regulations passed by legislative bodies and administrative boards set forth the "law". Slavery once was legal in the US, but one certainly would not say enslaving another was an "ethical" act.

Economist Milton Friedman wrote that corporate executives' "responsibility ... generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to their basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom". Friedman also said, "the only entities who can have responsibilities are individuals ... A business cannot have responsibilities. So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no, they do not." This view is known as the Friedman doctrine. A multi-country 2011 survey found support for this view among the "informed public" ranging from 30 to 80%. Ronald Duska and Jacques Cory have described Friedman's argument as consequentialist or utilitarian rather than pragmatic: Friedman's argument implies that unrestrained corporate freedom would benefit the most people in the long term. Duska argued that Friedman failed to differentiate two very different aspects of business: (1) the motive of individuals, who are generally motivated by profit to participate in business, and (2) the socially sanctioned purpose of business, or the reason why people allow businesses to exist, which is to provide goods and services to people. So Friedman was wrong that making a profit is the only concern of business, Duska argued.

Peter Drucker once said, "There is neither a separate ethics of business nor is one needed", implying that standards of personal ethics cover all business situations. However, Drucker in another instance said that the ultimate responsibility of company directors is not to harm—primum non nocere.

Philosopher and author Ayn Rand has put forth her idea of rational egoism, which also applies to business ethics. She stresses that position of the entrepreneur, who has to be responsible for his own happiness and the business is a means to said happiness, where the entrepreneur is not required to serve the interest of anyone else and no-one is entitled to his/her work.

Another view of business is that it must exhibit corporate social responsibility (CSR): an umbrella term indicating that an ethical business must act as a responsible citizen of the communities in which it operates even at the cost of profits or other goals. In the US and most other nations, corporate entities are legally treated as persons in some respects. For example, they can hold title to property, sue and be sued and are subject to taxation, although their free speech rights are limited. This can be interpreted to imply that they have independent ethical responsibilities. Duska argued that stakeholders expect a business to be ethical and that violating that expectation must be counterproductive for the business.

Ethical issues include the rights and duties between a company and its employees, suppliers, customers and neighbors, its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders. Issues concerning relations between different companies include hostile take-overs and industrial espionage. Related issues include corporate governance; corporate social entrepreneurship; political contributions; legal issues such as the ethical debate over introducing a crime of corporate manslaughter; and the marketing of corporations' ethics policies. According to research published by the Institute of Business Ethics and Ipsos MORI in late 2012, the three major areas of public concern regarding business ethics in Britain are executive pay, corporate tax avoidance and bribery and corruption.

Ethical standards of an entire organization can be damaged if a corporate psychopath is in charge. This will not only affect the company and its outcome but the employees who work under a corporate psychopath. The way a corporate psychopath can rise in a company is by their manipulation, scheming, and bullying. They do this in a way that can hide their true character and intentions within a company.

Functional business areas

Finance

Fundamentally, finance is a social science discipline. The discipline borders behavioral economics, sociology, economics, accounting and management. It concerns technical issues such as the mix of debt and equity, dividend policy, the evaluation of alternative investment projects, options, futures, swaps, and other derivatives, portfolio diversification and many others. Finance is often mistaken by the people to be a discipline free from ethical burdens. The 2008 financial crisis caused critics to challenge the ethics of the executives in charge of U.S. and European financial institutions and financial regulatory bodies. Finance ethics is overlooked for another reason—issues in finance are often addressed as matters of law rather than ethics.

Finance paradigm

Aristotle said, "the end and purpose of the polis is the good life". Adam Smith characterized the good life in terms of material goods and intellectual and moral excellences of character. Smith in his The Wealth of Nations commented, "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."

However, a section of economists influenced by the ideology of neoliberalism, interpreted the objective of economics to be maximization of economic growth through accelerated consumption and production of goods and services. Neoliberal ideology promoted finance from its position as a component of economics to its core. Proponents of the ideology hold that unrestricted financial flows, if redeemed from the shackles of "financial repressions", best help impoverished nations to grow. The theory holds that open financial systems accelerate economic growth by encouraging foreign capital inflows, thereby enabling higher levels of savings, investment, employment, productivity and "welfare", along with containing corruption. Neoliberals recommended that governments open their financial systems to the global market with minimal regulation over capital flows. The recommendations however, met with criticisms from various schools of ethical philosophy. Some pragmatic ethicists, found these claims to be unfalsifiable and a priori, although neither of these makes the recommendations false or unethical per se. Raising economic growth to the highest value necessarily means that welfare is subordinate, although advocates dispute this saying that economic growth provides more welfare than known alternatives. Since history shows that neither regulated nor unregulated firms always behave ethically, neither regime offers an ethical panacea.

Neoliberal recommendations to developing countries to unconditionally open up their economies to transnational finance corporations was fiercely contested by some ethicists. The claim that deregulation and the opening up of economies would reduce corruption was also contested.

Dobson observes, "a rational agent is simply one who pursues personal material advantage ad infinitum. In essence, to be rational in finance is to be individualistic, materialistic, and competitive. Business is a game played by individuals, as with all games the object is to win, and winning is measured in terms solely of material wealth. Within the discipline, this rationality concept is never questioned, and has indeed become the theory-of-the-firm's sine qua non". Financial ethics is in this view a mathematical function of shareholder wealth. Such simplifying assumptions were once necessary for the construction of mathematically robust models. However, signalling theory and agency theory extended the paradigm to greater realism.

Other issues

Fairness in trading practices, trading conditions, financial contracting, sales practices, consultancy services, tax payments, internal audit, external audit and executive compensation also, fall under the umbrella of finance and accounting. Particular corporate ethical/legal abuses include: creative accounting, earnings management, misleading financial analysis, insider trading, securities fraud, bribery/kickbacks and facilitation payments. Outside of corporations, bucket shops and forex scams are criminal manipulations of financial markets. Cases include accounting scandals, Enron, WorldCom and Satyam.

Human resource management

Human resource management occupies the sphere of activity of recruitment selection, orientation, performance appraisal, training and development, industrial relations and health and safety issues. Business Ethicists differ in their orientation towards labor ethics. Some assess human resource policies according to whether they support an egalitarian workplace and the dignity of labor.

Issues including employment itself, privacy, compensation in accord with comparable worth, collective bargaining (and/or its opposite) can be seen either as inalienable rights or as negotiable. Discrimination by age (preferring the young or the old), gender/sexual harassment, race, religion, disability, weight and attractiveness. A common approach to remedying discrimination is affirmative action.

Once hired, employees have the right to the occasional cost of living increases, as well as raises based on merit. Promotions, however, are not a right, and there are often fewer openings than qualified applicants. It may seem unfair if an employee who has been with a company longer is passed over for a promotion, but it is not unethical. It is only unethical if the employer did not give the employee proper consideration or used improper criteria for the promotion. Each employer should know the distinction between what is unethical and what is illegal. If an action is illegal it is breaking the law but if an action seems morally incorrect that is unethical. In the workplace what is unethical does not mean illegal and should follow the guidelines put in place by OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), and other law binding entities.

Potential employees have ethical obligations to employers, involving intellectual property protection and whistle-blowing.

Employers must consider workplace safety, which may involve modifying the workplace, or providing appropriate training or hazard disclosure. This differentiates on the location and type of work that is taking place and can need to comply with the standards to protect employees and non-employees under workplace safety.

Larger economic issues such as immigration, trade policy, globalization and trade unionism affect workplaces and have an ethical dimension, but are often beyond the purview of individual companies.

Trade unions

Trade unions, for example, may push employers to establish due process for workers, but may also cause job loss by demanding unsustainable compensation and work rules.

Unionized workplaces may confront union busting and strike breaking and face the ethical implications of work rules that advantage some workers over others.

Management strategy

Among the many people management strategies that companies employ are a "soft" approach that regards employees as a source of creative energy and participants in workplace decision making, a "hard" version explicitly focused on control and Theory Z that emphasizes philosophy, culture and consensus. None ensure ethical behavior. Some studies claim that sustainable success requires a humanely treated and satisfied workforce.

Sales and marketing

Main article: Marketing ethics

Marketing ethics came of age only as late as the 1990s. Marketing ethics was approached from ethical perspectives of virtue or virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism, pragmatism and relativism.

Ethics in marketing deals with the principles, values and/or ideas by which marketers (and marketing institutions) ought to act. Marketing ethics is also contested terrain, beyond the previously described issue of potential conflicts between profitability and other concerns. Ethical marketing issues include marketing redundant or dangerous products/services, transparency about environmental risks, transparency about product ingredients such as genetically modified organisms possible health risks, financial risks, security risks, etc., respect for consumer privacy and autonomy, advertising truthfulness and fairness in pricing & distribution.

According to Borgerson, and Schroeder (2008), marketing can influence individuals' perceptions of and interactions with other people, implying an ethical responsibility to avoid distorting those perceptions and interactions.

Marketing ethics involves pricing practices, including illegal actions such as price fixing and legal actions including price discrimination and price skimming. Certain promotional activities have drawn fire, including greenwashing, bait and switch, shilling, viral marketing, spam (electronic), pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing. Advertising has raised objections about attack ads, subliminal messages, sex in advertising and marketing in schools.

Inter-organizational relationships

Scholars in business and management have paid much attention to the ethical issues in the different forms of relationships between organizations such as buyer-supplier relationships, networks, alliances, or joint ventures. Drawing in particular on Transaction Cost Theory and Agency Theory, they note the risk of opportunistic and unethical practices between partners through, for instance, shirking, poaching, and other deceitful behaviors. In turn, research on inter-organizational relationships has observed the role of formal and informal mechanisms to both prevent unethical practices and mitigate their consequences. It especially discusses the importance of formal contracts and relational norms between partners to manage ethical issues.

Emerging issues

Being the most important element of a business, stakeholders' main concern is to determine whether or not the business is behaving ethically or unethically. The business's actions and decisions should be primarily ethical before it happens to become an ethical or even legal issue. "In the case of the government, community, and society what was merely an ethical issue can become a legal debate and eventually law." Some emerging ethical issues are:

• Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Businesses impacts on eco-systemic environments can no longer be neglected and ecosystems' impacts on business activities are becoming more imminent.
• Fairness: The three aspects that motivate people to be fair is; equality, optimization, and reciprocity. Fairness is the quality of being just, equitable, and impartial.
• Misuse of company's times and resources: This particular topic may not seem to be a very common one, but it is very important, as it costs a company billions of dollars on a yearly basis. This misuse is from late arrivals, leaving early, long lunch breaks, inappropriate sick days etc. This has been observed as a major form of misconduct in businesses today. One of the greatest ways employees participate in the misuse of company's time and resources is by using the company computer for personal use.
• Consumer fraud: There are many different types of fraud, namely; friendly fraud, return fraud, wardrobing, price arbitrage, returning stolen goods. Fraud is a major unethical practice within businesses which should be paid special attention. Consumer fraud is when consumers attempt to deceive businesses for their very own benefit.
• Abusive behavior: A common ethical issue among employees. Abusive behavior consists of inflicting intimidating acts on other employees. Such acts include harassing, using profanity, threatening someone physically and insulting them, and being annoying.

Production

This area of business ethics usually deals with the duties of a company to ensure that products and production processes do not needlessly cause harm. Since few goods and services can be produced and consumed with zero risks, determining the ethical course can be problematic. In some case, consumers demand products that harm them, such as tobacco products. Production may have environmental impacts, including pollution, habitat destruction and urban sprawl. The downstream effects of technologies nuclear power, genetically modified food and mobile phones may not be well understood. While the precautionary principle may prohibit introducing new technology whose consequences are not fully understood, that principle would have prohibited the newest technology introduced since the industrial revolution. Product testing protocols have been attacked for violating the rights of both humans and animals. There are sources that provide information on companies that are environmentally responsible or do not test on animals.

Property

Main articles: Private property and Property rights

The etymological root of property is the Latin proprius, which refers to 'nature', 'quality', 'one's own', 'special characteristic', 'proper', 'intrinsic', 'inherent', 'regular', 'normal', 'genuine', 'thorough, complete, perfect' etc. The word property is value loaded and associated with the personal qualities of propriety and respectability, also implies questions relating to ownership. A 'proper' person owns and is true to herself or himself, and is thus genuine, perfect and pure.

Modern history of property rights

Modern discourse on property emerged by the turn of the 17th century within theological discussions of that time. For instance, John Locke justified property rights saying that God had made "the earth, and all inferior creatures, [in] common to all men".

In 1802 utilitarian Jeremy Bentham stated, "property and law are born together and die together".

One argument for property ownership is that it enhances individual liberty by extending the line of non-interference by the state or others around the person. Seen from this perspective, property right is absolute and property has a special and distinctive character that precedes its legal protection. Blackstone conceptualized property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe".

Slaves as property

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, slavery spread to European colonies including America, where colonial legislatures defined the legal status of slaves as a form of property. During this time settlers began the centuries-long process of dispossessing the natives of America of millions of acres of land. The natives lost about 200,000 square miles (520,000 km²) of land in the Louisiana Territory under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, who championed property rights.

Combined with theological justification, the property was taken to be essentially natural ordained by God. Property, which later gained meaning as ownership and appeared natural to Locke, Jefferson and to many of the 18th and 19th century intellectuals as land, labor or idea, and property right over slaves had the same theological and essentialized justification It was even held that the property in slaves was a sacred right. Wiecek noted, "slavery was more clearly and explicitly established under the Constitution as it had been under the Articles". Accordingly, US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in his 1857 judgment stated, "The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution".

Natural right vs social construct

Neoliberals hold that private property rights are a non-negotiable natural right. Davies counters with "property is no different from other legal categories in that it is simply a consequence of the significance attached by law to the relationships between legal persons." Singer claims, "Property is a form of power, and the distribution of power is a political problem of the highest order". Rose finds, "'Property' is only an effect, a construction, of relationships between people, meaning that its objective character is contestable. Persons and things, are 'constituted' or 'fabricated' by legal and other normative techniques." Singer observes, "A private property regime is not, after all, a Hobbesian state of nature; it requires a working legal system that can define, allocate, and enforce property rights." Davis claims that common law theory generally favors the view that "property is not essentially a 'right to a thing', but rather a separable bundle of rights subsisting between persons which may vary according to the context and the object which is at stake".

In common parlance property rights involve a bundle of rights including occupancy, use and enjoyment, and the right to sell, devise, give, or lease all or part of these rights. Custodians of property have obligations as well as rights. Michelman writes, "A property regime thus depends on a great deal of cooperation, trustworthiness, and self-restraint among the people who enjoy it."

Menon claims that the autonomous individual, responsible for his/her own existence is a cultural construct moulded by Western culture rather than the truth about the human condition. Penner views property as an "illusion"—a "normative phantasm" without substance.

In the neoliberal literature, the property is part of the private side of a public/private dichotomy and acts a counterweight to state power. Davies counters that "any space may be subject to plural meanings or appropriations which do not necessarily come into conflict".

Private property has never been a universal doctrine, although since the end of the Cold War is it has become nearly so. Some societies, e.g., Native American bands, held land, if not all property, in common. When groups came into conflict, the victor often appropriated the loser's property. The rights paradigm tended to stabilize the distribution of property holdings on the presumption that title had been lawfully acquired.

Property does not exist in isolation, and so property rights too. Bryan claimed that property rights describe relations among people and not just relations between people and things Singer holds that the idea that owners have no legal obligations to others wrongly supposes that property rights hardly ever conflict with other legally protected interests. Singer continues implying that legal realists "did not take the character and structure of social relations as an important independent factor in choosing the rules that govern market life". Ethics of property rights begins with recognizing the vacuous nature of the notion of property.

Intellectual property

Main articles: Intellectual property and Intellectual property rights

Intellectual property (IP) encompasses expressions of ideas, thoughts, codes, and information. "Intellectual property rights" (IPR) treat IP as a kind of real property, subject to analogous protections, rather than as a reproducible good or service. Boldrin and Levine argue that "government does not ordinarily enforce monopolies for producers of other goods. This is because it is widely recognized that monopoly creates many social costs. Intellectual monopoly is no different in this respect. The question we address is whether it also creates social benefits commensurate with these social costs."

International standards relating to Intellectual Property Rights are enforced through Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. In the US, IP other than copyrights is regulated by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The US Constitution included the power to protect intellectual property, empowering the Federal government "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". Boldrin and Levine see no value in such state-enforced monopolies stating, "we ordinarily think of innovative monopoly as an oxymoron. Further, they comment, 'intellectual property' "is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity, and liberty". Steelman defends patent monopolies, writing, "Consider prescription drugs, for instance. Such drugs have benefited millions of people, improving or extending their lives. Patent protection enables drug companies to recoup their development costs because for a specific period of time they have the sole right to manufacture and distribute the products they have invented." The court cases by 39 pharmaceutical companies against South Africa's 1997 Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act, which intended to provide affordable HIV medicines has been cited as a harmful effect of patents.

One attack on IPR is moral rather than utilitarian, claiming that inventions are mostly a collective, cumulative, path dependent, social creation and therefore, no one person or firm should be able to monopolize them even for a limited period. The opposing argument is that the benefits of innovation arrive sooner when patents encourage innovators and their investors to increase their commitments.

Roderick T. Long, a libertarian philosopher, argued:

Ethically, property rights of any kind have to be justified as extensions of the right of individuals to control their own lives. Thus any alleged property rights that conflict with this moral basis—like the "right" to own slaves—are invalidated. In my judgment, intellectual property rights also fail to pass this test. To enforce copyright laws and the like is to prevent people from making peaceful use of the information they possess. If you have acquired the information legitimately (say, by buying a book), then on what grounds can you be prevented from using it, reproducing it, trading it? Is this not a violation of the freedom of speech and press? It may be objected that the person who originated the information deserves ownership rights over it. But information is not a concrete thing an individual can control; it is universal, existing in other people's minds and other people's property, and over these, the originator has no legitimate sovereignty. You cannot own information without owning other people.

Machlup concluded that patents do not have the intended effect of enhancing innovation. Self-declared anarchist Proudhon, in his 1847 seminal work noted, "Monopoly is the natural opposite of competition," and continued, "Competition is the vital force which animates the collective being: to destroy it, if such a supposition were possible, would be to kill society."

Mindeli and Pipiya argued that the knowledge economy is an economy of abundance because it relies on the "infinite potential" of knowledge and ideas rather than on the limited resources of natural resources, labor and capital. Allison envisioned an egalitarian distribution of knowledge. Kinsella claimed that IPR create artificial scarcity and reduce equality. Bouckaert wrote, "Natural scarcity is that which follows from the relationship between man and nature. Scarcity is natural when it is possible to conceive of it before any human, institutional, contractual arrangement. Artificial scarcity, on the other hand, is the outcome of such arrangements. Artificial scarcity can hardly serve as a justification for the legal framework that causes that scarcity. Such an argument would be completely circular. On the contrary, artificial scarcity itself needs a justification" Corporations fund much IP creation and can acquire IP they do not create, to which Menon and others have objected. Andersen claims that IPR has increasingly become an instrument in eroding public domain.

Ethical and legal issues include patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, patent and copyright misuse, submarine patents, biological patents, patent, copyright and trademark trolling, employee raiding and monopolizing talent, bioprospecting, biopiracy and industrial espionage, digital rights management.

Notable IP copyright cases include A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., Eldred v. Ashcroft, and Disney's lawsuit against the Air Pirates.

International issues

While business ethics emerged as a field in the 1970s, international business ethics did not emerge until the late 1990s, looking back on the international developments of that decade. Many new practical issues arose out of the international context of business. Theoretical issues such as cultural relativity of ethical values receive more emphasis in this field. Other, older issues can be grouped here as well. Issues and subfields include:

• The search for universal values as a basis for international commercial behavior
• Comparison of business ethical traditions in different countries and on the basis of their respective GDP and corruption rankings
• Comparison of business ethical traditions from various religious perspectives
• Ethical issues arising out of international business transactions—e.g., bioprospecting and biopiracy in the pharmaceutical industry; the fair trade movement; transfer pricing.
• Issues such as globalization and cultural imperialism
• Varying global standards—e.g., the use of child labor
• The way in which multinationals take advantage of international differences, such as outsourcing production (e.g. clothes) and services (e.g. call centers) to low-wage countries
• The permissibility of international commerce with pariah states

Foreign countries often use dumping as a competitive threat, selling products at prices lower than their normal value. This can lead to problems in domestic markets. It becomes difficult for these markets to compete with the pricing set by foreign markets. In 2009, the International Trade Commission has been researching anti-dumping laws. Dumping is often seen as an ethical issue, as larger companies are taking advantage of other less economically advanced companies.

Issues

Ethical issues often arise in business settings, whether through business transactions or forming new business relationships. It also has a huge focus in the auditing field whereby the type of verification can be directly dictated by ethical theory. An ethical issue in a business atmosphere may refer to any situation that requires business associates as individuals, or as a group (for example, a department or firm) to evaluate the morality of specific actions, and subsequently, make a decision amongst the choices. Some ethical issues of particular concern in today's evolving business market include such topics as: honesty, integrity, professional behaviors, environmental issues, harassment, and fraud to name a few. From a 2009 National Business Ethics survey, it was found that types of employee-observed ethical misconduct included abusive behavior (at a rate of 22 percent), discrimination (at a rate of 14 percent), improper hiring practices (at a rate of 10 percent), and company resource abuse (at a rate of percent).

The ethical issues associated with honesty are widespread and vary greatly in business, from the misuse of company time or resources to lying with malicious intent, engaging in bribery, or creating conflicts of interest within an organization. Honesty encompasses wholly the truthful speech and actions of an individual. Some cultures and belief systems even consider honesty to be an essential pillar of life, such as Confucianism and Buddhism (referred to as sacca, part of the Four Noble Truths). Many employees lie in order to reach goals, avoid assignments or negative issues; however, sacrificing honesty in order to gain status or reap rewards poses potential problems for the overall ethical culture organization, and jeopardizes organizational goals in the long run. Using company time or resources for personal use is also, commonly viewed as unethical because it boils down to stealing from the company. The misuse of resources costs companies billions of dollars each year, averaging about 4.25 hours per week of stolen time alone, and employees' abuse of Internet services is another main concern. Bribery, on the other hand, is not only considered unethical is business practices, but it is also illegal. In accordance with this, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was established in 1977 to deter international businesses from giving or receiving unwarranted payments and gifts that were intended to influence the decisions of executives and political officials. Although, small payments known as facilitation payments will not be considered unlawful under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act if they are used towards regular public governance activities, such as permits or licenses.

Influential factors on business ethics

Many aspects of the work environment influence an individual's decision-making regarding ethics in the business world. When an individual is on the path of growing a company, many outside influences can pressure them to perform a certain way. The core of the person's performance in the workplace is rooted in their personal code of behavior. A person's personal code of ethics encompasses many different qualities such as integrity, honesty, communication, respect, compassion, and common goals. In addition, the ethical standards set forth by a person's superior(s) often translate into their own code of ethics. The company's policy is the 'umbrella' of ethics that play a major role in the personal development and decision-making processes that people make with respect to ethical behavior.

The ethics of a company and its individuals are heavily influenced by the state of their country. If a country is heavily plagued with poverty, large corporations continuously grow, but smaller companies begin to wither and are then forced to adapt and scavenge for any method of survival. As a result, the leadership of the company is often tempted to participate in unethical methods to obtain new business opportunities. Additionally, Social Media is arguably the most influential factor in ethics. The immediate access to so much information and the opinions of millions highly influence people's behaviors. The desire to conform with what is portrayed as the norm often manipulates our idea of what is morally and ethically sound. Popular trends on social media and the instant gratification that is received from participating in such quickly distort people's ideas and decisions.

Economic systems

Political economy and political philosophy have ethical implications, particularly regarding the distribution of economic benefits. John Rawls and Robert Nozick are both notable contributors. For example, Rawls has been interpreted as offering a critique of offshore outsourcing on social contract grounds.

Law and regulation

Laws are the written statutes, codes, and opinions of government organizations by which citizens, businesses, and persons present within a jurisdiction are expected to govern themselves or face legal sanction. Sanctions for violating the law can include (a) civil penalties, such as fines, pecuniary damages, and loss of licenses, property, rights, or privileges; (b) criminal penalties, such as fines, probation, imprisonment, or a combination thereof; or (c) both civil and criminal penalties.

Very often it is held that business is not bound by any ethics other than abiding by the law. Milton Friedman is the pioneer of the view. He held that corporations have the obligation to make a profit within the framework of the legal system, nothing more. Friedman made it explicit that the duty of the business leaders is, "to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in the law and those embodied in ethical custom". Ethics for Friedman is nothing more than abiding by customs and laws. The reduction of ethics to abidance to laws and customs, however, have drawn serious criticisms.

Counter to Friedman's logic it is observed that legal procedures are technocratic, bureaucratic, rigid and obligatory whereas ethical act is conscientious, voluntary choice beyond normativity. Law is retroactive. Crime precedes law. Law against crime, to be passed, the crime must have happened. Laws are blind to the crimes undefined in it. Further, as per law, "conduct is not criminal unless forbidden by law which gives advance warning that such conduct is criminal". Also, the law presumes the accused is innocent until proven guilty and that the state must establish the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt. As per liberal laws followed in most of the democracies, until the government prosecutor proves the firm guilty with the limited resources available to her, the accused is considered to be innocent. Though the liberal premises of law is necessary to protect individuals from being persecuted by Government, it is not a sufficient mechanism to make firms morally accountable.

Implementation

Corporate policies

See also: Corporate governance

As part of more comprehensive compliance and ethics programs, many companies have formulated internal policies pertaining to the ethical conduct of employees. These policies can be simple exhortations in broad, highly generalized language (typically called a corporate ethics statement), or they can be more detailed policies, containing specific behavioral requirements (typically called corporate ethics codes). They are generally meant to identify the company's expectations of workers and to offer guidance on handling some of the more common ethical problems that might arise in the course of doing business. It is hoped that having such a policy will lead to greater ethical awareness, consistency in application, and the avoidance of ethical disasters.

Растет число компаний also require employees to attend seminars regarding business conduct, which often include discussion of the company's policies, specific case studies, and legal requirements. Some companies even require their employees to sign agreements stating that they will abide by the company's rules of conduct.

Многие компании оценивают факторы окружающей среды, которые могут привести сотрудников к неэтичному поведению. Конкурентная деловая среда может требовать неэтичного поведения. Ложь стала ожидаемой в таких областях, как торговля. Примером этого являются проблемы, связанные с неэтичными действиями компании Salomon Brothers .

Не все поддерживает корпоративную политику, регулирующую этическое поведение. Некоторые утверждают, что этические проблемы лучше решать, если полагаться на то, что сотрудники будут руководствоваться собственными суждениями.

Другие считают, что политика корпоративной этики в первую очередь коренится в утилитарных соображениях и что она направлена ​​главным образом на ограничение юридической ответственности компании или на то, чтобы завоевать расположение общества, создавая видимость добропорядочного корпоративного гражданина. В идеале компания избежит судебного процесса, поскольку ее сотрудники будут соблюдать правила. В случае возникновения судебного иска компания может заявить, что проблема не возникла бы, если бы сотрудник только должным образом следовал кодексу.

Некоторые корпорации пытались улучшить свой этический имидж, создавая средства защиты информаторов, такие как анонимность. В случае с Citi это называется «Горячая линия по вопросам этики». Хотя неясно, относятся ли такие компании, как Citi, серьезно к нарушениям, о которых сообщается на эти горячие линии, или нет. Иногда существует несоответствие между этическим кодексом компании и реальной практикой компании. . Таким образом, независимо от того, санкционировано ли такое поведение явно руководством, в худшем случае это делает политику двуличной, а в лучшем случае это просто маркетинговый инструмент.

Джонс и Паркер писали: «Большая часть того, что мы читаем под названием деловой этики, представляет собой либо сентиментальный здравый смысл, либо набор оправданий своей неприятности». Многие руководства представляют собой упражнения по заполнению процедурных форм, не заботясь о реальных этических дилеммах. Например, программа этики Министерства торговли США рассматривает деловую этику как набор инструкций и процедур, которым должны следовать «специалисты по этике». некоторые другие утверждают, что быть этичными нужно только ради этичности. Специалисты по деловой этике могут упростить тему, предлагая стандартные ответы, не отражающие сложности ситуации.

Ричард ДеДжордж писал о важности поддержания корпоративного кодекса:

Корпоративные кодексы имеют определенную полезность, и их разработка имеет ряд преимуществ. Во-первых, само по себе такое осуществление имеет смысл, особенно если оно заставляет большое количество людей в фирме по-новому продумать свою миссию и важные обязательства, которые они как группа и отдельные лица несут перед фирмы, друг к другу, к своим клиентам и покупателям, а также к обществу в целом. Во-вторых, после принятия кодекса его можно использовать для продолжения обсуждения и возможной модификации кодекса. В-третьих, это могло бы помочь привить новым сотрудникам всех уровней чувство ответственности, необходимость думать о своих действиях с моральной точки зрения и важность развития добродетелей, соответствующих их должности.

Специалисты по этике

После серии скандалов, связанных с мошенничеством, коррупцией и злоупотреблениями, которые затронули оборонную промышленность США в середине 1980-х годов, была создана Инициатива оборонной промышленности (DII) для продвижения этической деловой практики и этического управления во многих отраслях. После этих скандалов многие организации начали назначать сотрудников по этике (также называемых «специалистами по соблюдению требований»). была основана Ассоциация офицеров по этике и соответствию (первоначально Ассоциация офицеров по этике (EOA)) В 1991 году в Центре деловой этики при Университете Бентли как профессиональная ассоциация офицеров по этике и соблюдению требований.

Принятие в 1991 году Федеральных руководящих принципов вынесения приговоров для организаций стало еще одним фактором, побудившим многие компании назначить сотрудников по этике/соответствию. Эти руководящие принципы, призванные помочь судьям при вынесении приговоров, устанавливают стандарты, которым организации должны следовать, чтобы добиться смягчения приговора, если они будут признаны виновными в федеральном правонарушении.

После громких корпоративных скандалов с такими компаниями, как Enron , WorldCom и Tyco в период с 2001 по 2004 год, а также после принятия Закона Сарбейнса-Оксли , многие малые и средние компании также начали назначать сотрудников по этике.

Часто отчитываясь перед генеральным директором, специалисты по этике сосредотачивают внимание на выявлении или предотвращении неэтичных и незаконных действий. Это достигается путем оценки этических последствий деятельности компании, выработки рекомендаций по этической политике и распространения информации среди сотрудников.

Эффективность сотрудников по вопросам этики не ясна. Учреждение должности специалиста по этике, вероятно, будет недостаточным для внедрения этической деловой практики без корпоративной культуры , которая ценит этичное поведение. Эти ценности и модели поведения должны последовательно и систематически поддерживаться высшим руководством организации. Сотрудники, активно вовлеченные в жизнь общества, лояльные к работодателям, начальству или владельцам, разумные методы работы, доверие между членами команды, действительно прививают корпоративную культуру.

Инициативы устойчивого развития

Многие корпоративные и бизнес-стратегии теперь включают устойчивое развитие . В дополнение к традиционным экологическим проблемам «зеленой» устойчивости, практика деловой этики расширилась и теперь включает социальную устойчивость . Социальная устойчивость фокусируется на вопросах, связанных с человеческим капиталом в цепочке поставок бизнеса, таких как права работников , условия труда, детский труд и торговля людьми . Учет этих соображений растет, поскольку потребители и чиновники, ответственные за закупки, требуют документального подтверждения соответствия бизнеса национальным и международным инициативам, руководящим принципам и стандартам. Во многих отраслях есть организации, занимающиеся проверкой этической доставки продукции от начала до конца. такие как Кимберлийский процесс , целью которого является остановить поток конфликтных алмазов на международные рынки, или Фонд Fair Wear Foundation , занимающийся вопросами устойчивости и справедливости в швейной промышленности.

Как уже упоминалось, инициативы в области устойчивого развития охватывают «зеленые» темы, а также социальную устойчивость. Однако существует множество различных способов реализации инициатив устойчивого развития в компании.

Улучшение операций

Организация может реализовать инициативы в области устойчивого развития, улучшая свою деятельность и производственный процесс, чтобы сделать его более соответствующим экологическим, социальным и управленческим вопросам. Компания Johnson & Johnson учитывает политику Всеобщей декларации прав человека, Международного пакта о гражданских и политических правах и Международного пакта об экономических, социальных и культурных правах, применяя эти принципы не только к участникам своей цепочки поставок, но и к внутренней деятельности. Walmart взяла на себя обязательства удвоить эффективность своего парка грузовых автомобилей к 2015 году, заменив 2/3 своего парка более экономичными грузовиками, включая гибриды. Dell интегрировала альтернативные, переработанные и пригодные для вторичной переработки материалы в свои продукты и дизайн упаковки, повышая энергоэффективность и обеспечивая возможность утилизации и переработки. Dell планирует снизить энергоемкость своего портфеля продуктов на 80% к 2020 году.

Руководство совета директоров

Совет компании может принять решение снизить вознаграждение руководителей на определенный процент и отдать процент компенсации по конкретной причине. Это усилие, которое может быть реализовано только сверху, поскольку оно повлияет на вознаграждение всех руководителей компании. В Alcoa, алюминиевой компании, базирующейся в США, «1/5 денежного вознаграждения руководителей связана с безопасностью, разнообразием и охраной окружающей среды, что включает сокращение выбросов парниковых газов и энергоэффективность» (Best Practices). Обычно это не так для большинства компаний, где мы видим, что совет директоров делает единый шаг в решении экологических, социальных и управленческих вопросов. Это справедливо только для компаний, которые напрямую связаны с коммунальными предприятиями, энергетикой или промышленностью материалов, что соответствует Alcoa как алюминиевой компании. Вместо этого формальные комитеты, занимающиеся вопросами окружающей среды, социальной сферы и управления, чаще встречаются в комитетах по управлению и комитетах по аудиту, а не в совете директоров. «Согласно исследовательскому анализу, проведенному Перл Мейер в поддержку отчета о вознаграждениях директоров NACD за 2017 год, показано, что среди 1400 проверенных публичных компаний лишь немногим более пяти процентов советов директоров имеют специальный комитет для решения вопросов ESG». (Как компенсация может).

Подотчетность руководства

Подобно руководству совета директоров, созданию руководящих комитетов и других типов комитетов, специализирующихся на устойчивом развитии, определяются старшие руководители, которые несут ответственность за достижение и постоянное улучшение целей устойчивого развития.

Исполнительная компенсация

Внедрение схем бонусов, которые вознаграждают руководителей за достижение нефинансовых целей, включая цели по безопасности, выбросам парниковых газов , целям по сокращению и целям, привлекая заинтересованные стороны для помощи в формировании позиции компании в государственной политике. Такие компании, как Exelon, реализовали подобную политику.

Взаимодействие с заинтересованными сторонами

Другие компании будут сохранять устойчивое развитие в рамках своей стратегии и целей, представляя результаты на собраниях акционеров и активно отслеживая показатели устойчивого развития. Такие компании, как PepsiCo, Heineken и FIFCO. предпринять шаги в этом направлении для реализации инициатив в области устойчивого развития. (Лучшие практики). Такие компании, как Coca-Cola, активно пытались повысить эффективность использования воды, нанимая сторонних аудиторов для оценки своего подхода к управлению водными ресурсами. FIFCO также успешно руководила инициативами по управлению водными ресурсами.

Вовлеченность сотрудников

Реализация проектов устойчивого развития путем прямого обращения к сотрудникам (обычно через отдел кадров) является еще одним вариантом реализации устойчивого развития для компаний. Это предполагает интеграцию устойчивого развития в культуру компании, включая методы найма и обучения сотрудников. General Electric – компания, которая берет на себя ведущую роль в реализации подобных инициатив. Bank of America напрямую привлекал сотрудников к внедрению зданий, сертифицированных по LEED (лидерство в области энергетического и экологического проектирования), причем пятая часть его зданий соответствует этим сертификатам.

Управление цепочками поставок

Установление требований не только к внутренним операциям, но и к поставщикам первого и второго уровня, чтобы помочь продвигать экологические и социальные ожидания дальше по цепочке поставок. Такие компании, как Starbucks, FIFCO и Ford Motor Company, ввели требования, которым должны соответствовать поставщики, чтобы выиграть свой бизнес. Starbucks возглавила усилия по привлечению поставщиков и местных сообществ, в которых они работают, для ускорения инвестиций в устойчивое сельское хозяйство. Starbucks поставила перед собой цель обеспечить к 2015 году 100% поставок кофейных зерен с соблюдением этических норм.

Прозрачность

Раскрывая данные о принятии решений о том, как была достигнута устойчивость, компании могут поделиться информацией, которая может помочь другим в отрасли и за ее пределами принимать более устойчивые решения. В 2013 году Nike запустила свое «приложение для творчества», которое опубликовало данные об экологичности используемых материалов. В конечном итоге это позволяет другим компаниям принимать более устойчивые дизайнерские решения и создавать продукты с меньшим воздействием.

Академическая дисциплина

Как академическая дисциплина деловая этика возникла в 1970-х годах. Поскольку академических журналов и конференций по этике бизнеса не существовало, исследователи публиковались в журналах по менеджменту и посещали общие конференции. Со временем появились специализированные рецензируемые журналы, и в эту область вышло все больше исследователей. Корпоративные скандалы начала 2000-х увеличили популярность этой области. По состоянию на 2009 год существовало шестнадцать академических журналов, посвященных различным вопросам деловой этики, Journal of Business Ethics и Business Ethics Quarterly . лидерами которых считались Журнал Business Ethics Education публикует статьи, посвященные образованию в области деловой этики.

Международный институт развития бизнеса — это глобальная некоммерческая организация, представляющая 217 стран и все 50 США. Он предлагает Хартию развития бизнеса, в которой основное внимание уделяется этической деловой практике и стандартам. Хартия разработана Гарвардским университетом , Массачусетским технологическим институтом и стипендиатами Фулбрайта и включает в себя курсовые работы для выпускников по экономике, политике, маркетингу, менеджменту, технологиям и юридическим аспектам развития бизнеса, связанным с деловой этикой. IBDI также курирует Азиатский международный институт развития бизнеса, который предоставляет людям, живущим в 20 азиатских странах, возможность получить Хартию.

Религиозные взгляды

Согласно законам шариата , которым следуют многие мусульмане , банковское дело конкретно запрещает взимание процентов по кредитам. Традиционная конфуцианская мысль не поощряет стремление к прибыли. Христианство предлагает золотое правило : «Итак во всем, как хотите, чтобы с вами поступали люди, так поступайте и вы с ними, ибо в этом закон и пророки». Согласно статье «Теория реальной экономики», существует более узкая точка зрения христианской веры на соотношение этики и религиозных традиций. В этой статье подчеркивается, как христианство способно установить надежные границы для финансовых учреждений. Одна из критических замечаний исходит от Папы Бенедикта, который описывает «разрушительные последствия для реальной экономики плохо управляемых и в значительной степени спекулятивных финансовых операций». Упоминается, что христианство имеет потенциал изменить природу финансов и инвестиций, но только если теологи и специалисты по этике предоставят больше доказательств того, что реально в экономической жизни. Деловая этика широко рассматривается в еврейской мысли и раввинистической литературе как с этической ( Мусар ), так и с юридической ( Галаха ) точки зрения; см. в статье «Еврейская деловая этика» дальнейшее обсуждение . Согласно статье Чандрани Чаттопадьяй «Индийская философия и деловая этика: обзор», индуисты следуют «Дхарме», поскольку деловая этика и неэтичная деловая практика называются «Адхармой». Предполагается, что бизнесмены должны сохранять уравновешенность, самоочищение, ненасилие, концентрацию, ясность и контроль над чувствами. Такие книги, как Бхагават Гита. и артхашастра внести большой вклад в ведение этического бизнеса.

Связанные дисциплины

Деловая этика связана с философией экономики , отраслью философии , которая занимается философскими, политическими и этическими основами бизнеса и экономики . этическое функционирование частного бизнеса возможно. действует, например , что , на предпосылке Деловая этика область собственно деловой этики. [нужна ссылка]

Философия экономики также занимается такими вопросами, как, если таковые имеются, социальная ответственность бизнеса; управления бизнесом теория ; теории индивидуализма и коллективизма ; свобода воли участников рынка ; роль личного интереса ; невидимой руки теории ; требования социальной справедливости ; и естественные права , особенно права собственности , в отношении коммерческого предприятия.

Деловая этика также связана с политической экономией , которая представляет собой экономический анализ с политической и исторической точек зрения. Политическая экономия занимается распределительными последствиями экономических действий.

См. также

• Корпорация Б (сертификация)
• Деловая культура
• Бизнес-право
• Корпоративное поведение
• Корпоративные преступления
• Корпоративная социальная ответственность
• Восточная этика в бизнесе
• Этический кодекс
• Этическое потребительство
• Этические последствия в контрактах
• Этическая работа
• Этицизм
• Злая корпорация
• Моральная психология
• Предвзятость оптимизма
• Организационная этика
• Мошенничество с ценными бумагами
• Философия и экономика
• Политическая коррупция
• Стратегическое искажение фактов
• Стратегическое планирование

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Дальнейшее чтение

• Мейнхольд, Р. (2022). Деловая этика и устойчивое развитие (1-е изд.). Нью-Йорк, штат Нью-Йорк: Рутледж.
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