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Jean Pauyo, USA
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Why do People / Organizations Act Ethically?
There are two main perspectives on why people (or businesses) act ethically:
1. The first one is on deontologic principle: one has to do what is right because that's good in it self.
2. The second reason people what is good is because of the long term benefit they of it ( utilitarianism). We expect to be treated well so we treat other people well.
Acting unethically is always a short term view. People who have short term perspective tend to act unethically.
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Mary R Brooks, United Kingdom
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To Be or not to Be.. That is the Question!
I travel round the world working and I have to say that ethics vary from business to business and particularly from country to country. Some businesses (oligopolies too!) suffer from cognitive dissonance when operating in another country where they cannot stop things like corruption. It will go against all of their own company ethics and in their own country but they understand that unless the country they are operating in, and the larger demographics, suffer from that set of ethics then they have to "put up and shut up" and it all comes down to cash again!
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Martin Heltai, United States
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Ethics
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Henry Egidius
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Ethics Line
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Jean Pauyo, USA
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Why Should People Act Ethically?
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Bruce Halvax, United States
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Why Should People Act Ethically
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Doug Wilsman, USA
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Re: Why Should People Act Ethically
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Guillermina Galicia Galicia
Analyst, Mexico
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Why Does Someone Act Ethically?
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Hans-Guenter Lindner, Germany
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Kirk C. Heriot
Professor, United States
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Why Does Someone Act Ethically?
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Hareesh Ramachandran
Coach, India
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Anna hanooman
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GS RADJOU
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Jorge Arrieta S
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Ethics Crucial for Business Success
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John Muiruri Makuno, Kenya
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George Ayton, Canada
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Ethics in Business and Elswhere
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Penyweit
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Why People Behave Ethically..
One reason most act ethically:
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Rafael Angel Calvo Arguedas
Consultant, Costa Rica
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Why Does Someone Act Ethically?
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Richardcavessa, USA
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Ethics is an Excuse, Most Everyone Knows Right from Wrong
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Guerrero de Luna, Peru
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Values of CEO
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Ethics and Bible
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Ethics - Starting Point?
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Why Does Someone Act Ethically?
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A View of Ethics
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Jay Lo
Partner, Taiwan
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Ethics is What we Truly are
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Mangue Tang, China
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Ethic Makes our Life Easier
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I...
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Edgar Avila, Peru
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Current Ethics is Unethical
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Jackie Yeoh
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The Foundation of Businesses is Ethics
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Ethis = Culture + Scenery (Environment)
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Ethics is the Foundation of Business
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Ethics - Why Does Someone Act Ethically
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Kazenieli William Msemo, Tanzania
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Why Does Someone Act Ethically?
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We need Role Models
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Common and Relative Ethics
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Civilization is Based on Ethics
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Ethical Hypocrisy?
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angel perez
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Ethics as a Personal Value
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iurcovich, Italy
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Why Ethical Behavior?
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Mario de Obaldia, United States
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Fractal Behavior / Thinking
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Richard S. Dillard, United States
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Why People / Organizations Act Ethically
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Lucio Emilio do Espirito Santo Junior, Brazil
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Many Ethics
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James Akortsu
United Kingdom
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Ethical Behavior is Rewarded
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Leodegardo M. Pruna
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Why Organizations Act Ethically?
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Bantwal Prabhu
Teacher, India
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Driving Force of Business is Money, NOT Ethics
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Ethics versus God / No God
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MPANDE KENNEDY, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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Donald Tang, China
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Bismark O. Del Villar
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Henry Egidius
Consultant, Sweden
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Bongani L. Nkosi-Dlamini
Student (MBA), South Africa
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Why People Act Ethically
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Musiyandaka Donna
Student (University), Zimbabwe
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Ethics Cannot Exist Without...
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Madan Gopal Agarwal
Business Consultant, India
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Kirk C. Heriot
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Jafeth Quintanilla
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Mario de Obaldia, United States
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Older Organizations
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'Professionalism'
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K R Sethuraman
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