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Summary Business Ethics and CSR
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Explains ethical codes of practice and ethical objectives, the advantages/disadvantages of ethical behaviour, corporate social responsibility (CSR), pay and rewards, and the trade off between profit and ethics

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Theme 3 Topic 12
Business Ethics and CSR
Ethics

Ethics – consideration of the moral right and wrong of a decision at an often strategic level.

Ethics of Strategic Decisions:

 The Environment
 Corruption
 Animal Rights
 Workers in Developing Countries

Ethical Codes of Practise and Ethical Objectives

 Lay down how employees in the business should respond in situations where ethical issues arise.
 Differ from one business and one industry to another, however they may contain statements about:
- Environmental responsibility
- Dealing with customers and suppliers in a fair and honest manner
- Competing fairly and not engaging in practices such as collusion or destroyer pricing
- The workforce and responding fairly to their needs

Ethical/Responsible Behaviour

Advantages Problems
 Higher revenues  Higher costs e.g. using Fair Trade
 Improved brand & business awareness suppliers
& recognition  Higher overheads e.g. training of
 Better employee motivation & ethical policy
recruitment  Danger of building up false
 New sources of finance e.g. ethical expectations
investors


Ethical objectives

Ethical codes of practice may develop from ethical objectives of businesses. Ethical objectives can be explicit:

 It will not test its products on animals
 It will deal with suppliers fairly
 It will not accept bribes from customers

Explicit objectives will have to be carefully thought out. The business could get bad publicity if it went against
its stated ethical objectives.



Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
 Corporate Social Responsibility is a business’ responsibility to not just shareholders, but to all
stakeholders
 Businesses may conduct social and environmental audits; they are voluntary so no rules are set about
how they should be conducted or measured
 Businesses use a wide range of measures which differ from business to business



Social and environmental audits might include some of the following:

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