For this assignment, you are expected to demonstrate an analytical knowledge and critical understanding of different ethical perspectives, including ethical business objectives. In doing so, you are required to find and present three crucial ethical issues that have been faced by actual organizations through the years (such as equality at the workplace, racial and sexual harassment, corporate sustainability, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, environmental sustainability and/or globalization) and explain why it is essential for a management team to handle them.

For this assignment, you are expected to demonstrate an analytical knowledge and critical understanding of different ethical perspectives, including ethical business objectives. In doing so, you are required to find and present three crucial ethical issues that have been faced by actual organizations through the years (such as equality at the workplace, racial and sexual harassment, corporate sustainability, corporate governance, corporate citizenship, environmental sustainability and/or globalization) and explain why it is essential for a management team to handle them.

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter5: Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, And Sustainability

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 5CRQ: Can an individual be ethical without using ethical principles described in the chapter? Explain.

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