1. Your Ethical Principles
Take a few minutes to list 3 ethical principles you have adopted for your life.
What are they
Where did you learn them and who taught them to you.

2. What would you do? Ethical Dilemma Activity
Questions to think about when deciding what to do
1.) Is the action illegal?
2.) Does the action violate company or personal standards?
3.) Who is affected by the action and how are they affected?
4.) Also, think about the ethical principles that you listed in your bell ringer. Are you decisions following those principles?

3. What would you do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1yiQhO5Bw

4. Got Ethics? The importance of ethics is explored.
What are employers expecting from you?

5. Ethics
Guidelines for human behavior; the study of moral choice and values.
Morals: Evaluated in terms of right and wrong.
Formed from outside influences
Parents, teachers, friends, religions, culture, etc.
You must strive to recognize between right and wrong, then choose what is right.

6. Ethical Standards
We have ethical standards to uphold in everyday life- LAWS
Standard: Accepted levels of behavior to which individual behavior is compared.
Don’t act in ethical manner= suffer consequences.
Utility principle- the idea that the right action is the one that is best for everyone.
“The Golden Rule”

7. Causes of Unethical Behavior
Pressure
Fear
Greed
Convenience

8. Complete Business Ethics Scenarios
Applying principles of right and wrong to the workplace situations.
Complete Business Ethics Scenarios
Activity

9. Most Common Business Ethics Issues
Misrepresenting hours worked
Employees lying to supervisors
Management lying to employees, customers, vendors or the public
Misuse of organizational assets
Lying on reports/falsifying records
Sexual harassment
Stealing/theft
Accepting or giving bribes or kickbacks
Withholding needed information from employees, customers, vendors or public

10. Code of Ethics
A systematic set of rules and procedures used to guide behavior of an individual, a business, or a culture.
Employee duties- fulfill the job responsibilities and give the employer a fair day’s work for the pay earned.
Employee rights: equal opportunity, fair pay, safe working conditions.
EEOA

11. Consequences of Unethical Behavior
Personal
You will be fired.
Jail time if illegal- Martha Stewart
Business
Poor public relations may result
Decrease profits for business
Possible lawsuits
Jail time for those involved if illegal- Enron

12. Whistle Blower
If you work for a business and do not report unethical practices you could be held accountable.
A employee who reports the activity may be identified as a whistle blower.

13. Why do people not always report unethical behavior?
Didn’t believe action would be taken.
Feared retaliation from others involved.
Didn’t trust confidentiality.
Feared not being a team player.
Didn’t know who to contact.
Nobody cares, why should I?

14. Top 10 Whistleblowers

15. Ethics IT’S your choice..
If you practice unethical behavior then it will become habit.

16. Would you like to work for NIKE?
Nike Code of Ethics Activity