Ethics and Your Business

Paper Summary:

This research proposal discusses how ethics can effect a business. The importance of corporate social responsibility is discussed as well as whether it has any effect on company profits. Specifically discussed are universal ethical principles for businesses and those issues that challenge them. In addition, the educational experience of ethics, open communication and perceived or realized sanctions on reporting concerns are looked at. The paper is based roughly on a question and answer research study conducted on Russian business students in the wake of the US Enron accounting scandal.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Review of Literature
Theoretical Approach
Chosen Research Design
Research Method
Data collection tools
Sources of Data
Study Sample/ Sampling techniques
Analysis Techniques
Appendix

From the Paper:

"A blind survey method has been chosen as the appropriate research design for this work as it offers the sample participants ample anonymity and will likely garner more accurate and honest results. The survey method is often called into question when individuals have vested interests in the results, such as when they are answering questions about current employment within the confines of that setting. Recruiting individuals through a single or even a multiple business sample would likely garner results that were skewed by the individuals' fear of information being given to the employer regarding his or her answers to questions."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Benedyk, Rachel, and Sarah Minister. (1998) "Chapter Three Evaluation of Product Safety Using the Besafe Method." Human Factors in Consumer Products. Ed. Neville Stanton. London: Taylor & Francis,. 55-72.
• Berkhout, T. (2005, January/February). Corporate Gains: Corporate Social Responsibility Can Be the Strategic Engine for Long-Term Corporate Profits and Responsible Social Development. Alternatives Journal, 31, 15.
• Cowe, R. (2002, July 8). When Business Cannibals Take Up Forks: Corporate Social Responsibility Was Once Thought to Be an Idea Bordering on Communism. Now Most Firms Pay Lip-Service. but Have They Really Changed. New Statesman, 131, 26.
• Jasanoff, Sheila. (2006) "Transparency in Public Science: Purposes, Reasons, Limits." Law and Contemporary Problems 69 (3): 21.
• Lindorff, Dave (June 1986) "When All Systems Aren't Go; Engineers' Duty to Speak Out." The Nation 28: 880.

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