Business Ethics
A situation where someone must choose between a set of actions that may be ethical or unethical.
Ethical Issue
Primary and Secondary.
What are types of Capital Markets?
Certain rights to life, to freedom, to the pursuit of happiness that are bestowed at birth and cannot be arbitrarily taken away.
What are Human Rights?
Has a vested interest in a company and can either affect or be affected by a business' operations and performance.
What is a Stakeholder?
An equitable distribution of the burdens and rewards that society has to offer.
What is Justice?
A loan investors make to a company or government.
What is a bond?
Maximizing shared value among organizations, employees, customers, shareholders, and community members.
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Company policies that insist on working with partners who follow ethical business practices,
Reinvesting profits in health and safety or environmental programs,
Supporting charitable organizations in the communities where a company operates,
Promoting equal opportunities for men and women at the executive level.
What are CSR Activities?
Giving or allowing false impressions, taking unfair advantage, and abusing power and mistreating individuals.
What is Recognizing Unethical Business Activities?
Any person or other entity (such as a firm or mutual fund) who commits capital with the expectation of receiving financial returns.
What is an Investor?
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What is an example of Irresponsible but Legal Behavior?
Any person, company, or institution that owns at least one share of a company’s stock.
What is a shareholder?
A set of moral standards for judging whether something is right or wrong.
What is Ethics?
A legal entity that develops, registers and sells securities to finance its operations.
What is an issuer?
Legal responsibility, economic responsibility, philanthropic responsibility and ethical responsibility.
What is The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility?
A greater public awareness around human rights, environmental protection and other issues.
What are expectations of a Socially Responsible Business?
The notion that people should act so as to generate the greatest good for the greatest number.
What is Utilitarianism?
Makes possible the flow of products from producers to buyers by performing two basic functions: a transactional function and a logistical function.
What is an Intermediary?
A fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return with little risk to investors.
What Is a Ponzi Scheme?
Individuals and companies have a duty to act in the best interests of their environment and society as a whole.
What is Social Responsibility?