Business ethics are the moral values that guide a company. They provide guidelines for how employees relate to each other, how employees interact with customers and the way leaders make decisions for the company. Business ethics set a behavioral standard…
On what will you base your professional identity? Do you believe an employer’s enlightened self-interest is enough to ensure the ethical behavior of employers and employees? Or do you embrace “the critical importance of individual ethical choice in making our…
“‘Professionalism’ is the conduct, aims or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person. It implies there is a quality of workmanship or service. But in reality, it’s more about ethical behavior in the workplace. Every organization knows…
Professional values and ethical reasoning are traits valued by all good employers. In fact, we have seen throughout this book that employees’ sound ethical decisions lead to higher profits in the long run. How do we develop the ability to…
Not only does the world seem to have shrunk, but the twenty-first century pace of change seems to have sped up time itself. As the world becomes smaller and faster and companies adapt their practices to fit new conditions, the…
Figure 11.1 Business ethics starts right where you are and leads you down the road of life with a set of standards and rules to follow. (credit: modification of “We’re on the Road to Nowhere” by Marc Dalmulder/Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Chapter…
More Telecommuting or Less? Remote workers save themselves the time and cost of a commute and are better able to balance work and home life. Companies often benefit from the higher productivity and lower turnover of telecommuting employees, and they…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: As we have seen earlier in this chapter, general advances in computer technology have already enabled significant changes in the workplace. In this module, we will look…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: New ideas about the way we work and for how long, as well as the business models we use, are challenging many traditional business strategies. Job sharing…
Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The physical workplace is changing. Most companies still inhabit traditional office spaces in which managers and employees each have an allotted space, whether an office, a cubicle,…