Ethics in Management

Ethics in Management
What is the status of ethics in management? This is a very hard question to address in a two to three page
paper because there is no definite answer. As with many society-wide concerns, ethics runs the entire
spectrum of behaviors; from Wal-Mart being very customer oriented and a friend of charity to those fly-by-
night repair scams that tend to prey on the elderly.

When does a business cross the line from making a profit to stealing a profit? That is a hard line to gauge.
Laws are designed to make that line a little clearer but laws can't out think the mind of man. If a way can
be thought of to make money it already has been or is being thought of. It's where people are taken
advantage of that we need to worry. There are many business in place that simply prey on the people who
don't know any better. Whether its the feature on Prime-Time that shows elderly people tricked into phony
home repairs or the local business that offered a friend of mi...