Better Business, 5/e

Objective 3-4 Dangers of a Weak Ethical Focus

1. Summarize how legal compliance affects ethical conduct, and describe some strategies a company can use to recover from ethical lapses.

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“To me, it was stealing, and, bottom line, stealing is wrong.” The software firm Lana Phillips worked for had finished developing a program to deliver movie content on demand to people’s mobile devices. Before the company could break into the market, however, it needed to test its product and make appearances at big electronics ...