Business Ethics Discussion Assignment
Discussion Assignment: Please answer these questions: 1. How would you describe your personal ethics? Is that different than your business ethics? How? 2. Describe some of the major influences in your life that contributed to your ethics and value system. 3. Research and add two credible outside sources on the subject of ethics, principles or morals. For example if you picked Confucius, what are two points he made about ethics, principles or morals? Reference the source in APA format. 4. Suppose you buy a candy bar at the store and pay the cashier with a $5 bill. You are mistakenly given change for a $10 bill. What do you do? 5. You are shopping in a department store and observe a young man taking a watch from a display stand on the jewelry counter and slipping it into his pocket. What do you do? 6. You are having a romantic dinner with your spouse to celebrate your wedding anniversary. Suddenly, at a nearby table a man starts yelling at a young woman he is dining with and becomes so verbally abusive that she starts to cry. What do you do? 7. Does it matter how the people above look or are dressed? Their age? Or what color, ethnic background or language they are speaking in those situations.
