Business Ethics

Think you are a person of integrity and that you bring your highest standards of ethics to your workplace each day? You may reassess your thinking as you explore the topic of workplace ethics in this article. Despite hundreds of pages of policies, codes of conduct, organizational values, and carefully defined work environments, or company...

Everyone knows right from wrong. Right? Wrong. People disagree about the definition of right and wrong all the time. Read more about business ethics.

A Code of Conduct is a written collection of the rules, principles, values, and employee expectations, behavior, and relationships that an organization considers significant and believes are fundamental to their successful operation. A code of conduct enumerates those standards and values that make an organization remarkable and that enable it...

A conflict of interest arises in the workplace when an employee has competing interests or loyalties that either are, or potentially can be, at odds with each other. A conflict of interest causes an employee to experience a struggle between diverging interests, points of view, or allegiances. See examples of potential workplace conflicts of interest.

A gift policy provides guidance to company employees about what is and isn’t appropriate to accept as a present, offering, advertisement, award, or token of appreciation from a customer, vendor, supplier, potential employee, or potential vendor or supplier. The gift policy states whether employees are allowed to accept gifts both within and outside of work premises. Find out more about a compan…

Most people don't give company assets a second thought until they are lost, stolen or broken. Herein lies the problem. Employees must understand that ethical behavior is demonstrated not only in how they act toward others but also in how they treat property that doesn't belong to them. The key to success is understanding who owns what and what boundaries exist for its use. Learn more.

What do employees talk about when they talk about conflict in your organization? I'll bet that they talk about conflict avoidance and conflict resolution - as quickly as possible, to make the conflict go away. This is not good news because meaningful conflict is healthy for your organization.

Looking for an inspirational quote or a business quotation for your newsletter, business presentation, bulletin board or inspirational posters? These honesty and integrity quotes are useful to help motivation and inspiration. These quotes about honesty and integrity will help you create success in business, success in management and success in life.

Many people surround themselves with people who agree with them. Say "no" to "yes-men" for a culture that encourages disagreement and debate about business ethics issues. About's John Reh tells you how to avoid Enron's serious stumbles.

About's Austin Cline reviews "Business Ethics Revised Edition: Corporate Values and Society." (Prometheus Books) Cline says, the book "covers quite a lot of ground ... with large sections on the nature of ethics in social organizations, the obligations of employees, the rights of employees, the rights of consumers, obligations to the environment, and ethics in accounting practices."

Sponored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, this site offers a collection of over 850 codes of ethics found on the World Wide Web. What a resource! Check this out!

For over fifteen years, this magazine addresses all issues about business ethics including an emphasis on corporate responsibility and socially conscious investing.

What are business ethics and why do they matter? Scroll down at this site to what, why, the history, how to manage, and steps to approach instilling business ethics in your organization. An excellent resource.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing, publication, and conferences.

This is a professional journal published by Rutgers University which covers a diverse set of contemporary issues in business ethics.

The Institute, sponsored by DePaul University, is established to "concentrate on stirring an individual's conscience by stimulating moral imagination; by encouraging ongoing ethical debate and by insisting on individual responsibility."

This private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational organization was founded to establish ethical business industry standards and to develop strategies for integrating them worldwide.

"For those of us concerned about ethical actions and not just good intentions, the problem is clear. We must identify the situational factors that keep people from doing their best and eliminate them whenever we can." Read more in this excellent article from Dennis Moberg at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.