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Business Ethics
Dr. Roxana Marinescu
If a company’s main purpose is to maximize its returns to its shareholders; where is business ethics in this process?
C(orporate) S(ocial) R(esponsibility)
Also called: corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, responsible business and corporate social opportunity
Is a concept whereby companies consider the interests of communities by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on all the actors involved: customers, suppliers, staff, shareholders, stakeholders, the environment
CSR
The relationship between a company and its shareholders, company and employees, company and competition, company and suppliers, clients, etc.
Leadership, corporate governance
Ethical issues in Accounting and Finance
Creative accounting and earnings management Misleading financial analysis Insider trading Securities fraud, stock fraud, investment fraud Bucket shops Forex scam Executive compensation Bribery, kickbacks, facilitation payments
Creative accounting and earnings management
Euphemisms referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting, but certainly deviate from the spirit of those rules
Creative accounting and earnings management
characterized by excessive complication and the use of novel ways of characterizing income, assets, or liabilities and the intent to influence readers towards the interpretations desired by the authors
Misleading financial analysis
to obtain money by misdirecting people to invest in a stock market bubble (when price of stocks rise and become overvalued by any measure of stock valuation), profiting (or assisting others to profit) from the increase in value, then removing funds before the bubble collapses, for instance in a stock market crash
Misleading financial analysis
Used to misrepresent the organization, its situation or its prospects
Regulators are supposed to prevent such fraud
Insider trading
the trading of a corporation’s stock or other securities by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company
Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud
A practice in which investors make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in losses, and in the violation of the securities laws
Bucket shops
Now applied to any fraudulent stock-selling operation, which has an undisclosed relationship with the company being promoted or undisclosed profit from the sale of house stock being promoted
A bucket shop promotes (via telephone or email) thinly traded or even fraudulent investments
Forex scam
Any trading scheme used to defraud individual traders by convincing them that they can expect to gain a high profit by trading in the foreign exchange market
Executive compensation
Excessive payments made to corporate CEO's and top management
The ethics of human resource management (HRM)
Covers those ethical issues arising around the employer-employee relationship, such as the rights and duties owed between employer and employee
The ethics of human resource management (HRM)
Discrimination issues: discrimination on the bases of age, gender, race, religion, disabilities, weight and attractiveness. Affirmative action is implemented
Issues surrounding the representation of employees and the democratization of the workplace: unions, strikes
The ethics of human resource management (HRM)
Issues affecting the privacy of the employee: workplace surveillance, drug testing
Issues affecting the privacy of the employer: whistle-blowing
The ethics of human resource management (HRM)
Issues relating to the fairness of the employment contract and the balance of power between employer and employee
Occupational safety and health.
Employee raiding/head hunting
International business ethics
Fair trade/community tradeBiopiracy Child labour
International business ethics
Cultural imperialism Conflicting interests Ethics officers ("compliance" or
"business conduct officers")
Fair trade/community trade
an organized social movement and market-based approach to empower developing country producers and promote sustainability
advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods
Fair trade/community trade
focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, etc
Biopiracy
A negative term for the appropriation, generally by means of patents, of legal rights over indigenous knowledge - particularly indigenous biomedical knowledge - without compensation to the indigenous groups who originally developed such knowledge