Some thoughts about the ethics of business and quality of life

Appearance, essence and ethics issues of business. Business ethics contain two parts. The first part examines the issues related to the compliance of the enterprise's business (the company) with the framework order; the degree of responsibility of the enterprise to the public. This part can be seen as part of social ethics. The second part of business ethics deals mainly with the practical aspects of the manager's or manager's behavior, the relationship between the company's collaborators, consumer rights, moral standards and value conflicts, etc.

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As such, it is a kind of professional ethics or we can call it a management or administrative ethics. What does the ethics of business do? At the macro level, business ethics refers to the ethics of the social order. At the micro level, this is a lesson for the goals, values ​​and rules of entrepreneurial activity. It can be said that the ethics of business - this is the ethics of the consumer's rights. What are the reasons for the emergence of business ethics? Business ethics emerged in Western societies, and especially in the United States in the 1980s. The reasons are as follows: Dynamic development of the industrial society, market and marketing development, the emergence of social-ethical marketing, changes in the structure of needs, etc. All this helps to expand the application of applied ethics in the sphere of business.

The unprecedented growth of transnational corporations whose annual income is higher than GDP in many countries. For example, Ford's annual revenue is higher than Thailand's GDP, that of IBM, that of Colombia and Greece combined. The economy at the scale of the corporation leads to an increase in bureaucracy, and to the suppression of personal initiative and social responsibility. This new situation raises many ethical problems for decision-makers. Informational revolution, turning all the inhabitants of the planet into users of the unified information chain Internet. This is an unprecedented situation that requires improvement of business ethics in combination with computer ethics. The problem of social responsibility of business, social justice, social evil, the welfare state has been imposed in the West by the theory of Marx and its followers in the socialist camp.

Caring for social and ethical issues arose in individual enterprises in Western countries in the first half of the twentieth century, and is related not so much to their owners' man-beings, but to the threat of the East. The presence of "socialist" countries and the stated objectives of building a welfare state have prompted many businesses to solve social tasks such as helping poor, normalized working days, paid leave, a whole social package.
The dynamic development of the industrial society has led to a change of structure with an emphasis on spiritual needs.