Better Business, 5/e

Objective 3-2 Personal Ethics Meets Business Ethics

1. Explain how personal ethics might play a role in the workplace and what resources one may use to evaluate a company’s ethical code.

“It was a beautiful glaze,” Randy Marks says with a sigh. His small pottery shop depends on orders from individuals and small architecture firms looking for authentic, custom pieces of tile to adorn their kitchens, floors, or fountains. “I used copper and a special firing method to give the glaze a stunning crimson color,” Randy explains. “It was our best-selling item.” An architect in New York City quickly contracted with Randy’s shop to produce a much larger ...