"It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare"

-Mark Twain

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The shaping of Business Ethics Policy and the shaping of current legislation has a distinct connection. Typically laws reflect the morals held by society and to further enforce and ultimately support those morals and ethics. However it is interesting to note that there is not a direct connection between the two.

What might be considered Unethical is not necessarily Illegal. For although public opinion and societal views often shape and jump-start legislation, it is not a guaranteed response to make an unethical practice illegal.

The key insight to walkaway with, is that Business Ethics Policy's need to anticipate and understand the ethical views and ethical reactions of the consumer. If a company waits to enact Ethic's based policies after laws become passed then they are too LATE!

Business Ethics Policy's need to place themselves and their companies not just on the forefront of the latest ethics laws but ahead of them altogether. Businesses need to anticipate and encompass the ethical views, opinions and beliefs of their consumers before they are required to do so.

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The field of Ethics has typically been attributed to the actions and interactions of people in the real world. These forms of ethics and business ethics focused upon aspects of society pertaining to businesses, people and property.

However, with the creation of cyberspace our perceptions of ethics dealing with property, boundaries and even the ethics of business needs to be reevaluated. Since the internet does not deal with real life interactions, the ingrained societal ethics and learned business ethics need to become realized and reborn within this new media.

Online Business Ethics. With the freedom that cyberspace offers, people find themselves distanced from not only their actions but from their own ethics. In this sense, a large part of social control upon internet ethics is lost; often without the knowledge of the internet user.

The key aspect to remember regarding Online Ethics and Online Business Ethics Online as technology continues foreward is::

1. Even though cyberspace has no physical boundaries or person-to-person interactions, online business ethics and internet ethics need to apply "real world" ethics practices such as those with "real people" and with "real boundaries".
   

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“The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people.”

-Theodore Roosevelt, 1900

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In today's environmentally conscious society, businesses are finding the need to redefine their approach to ethical practices. One such aspect of ethics that is continuing to expand is within the field of conservation ethics.

Alan Marshall's conservation ethics looks only at the worth of the environment in terms of its utility or usefulness to humans. It is the opposite of deep ecology, hence is often referred to as shallow ecology, and argues for the preservation of the environment on the basis that it has extrinsic value – instrumental to the welfare of human beings.

Therefore according to Marshall, conservation is a means to an end and purely concerned with mankind and intergenerational considerations. It could be argued that it is this ethic that formed the underlying arguments proposed by Governments at the Kyoto summit in 1997 and three agreements reached in Rio in 1992.

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This area of business ethics deals with the duties of a company to ensure that products and production processes do not cause harm. Some of the more acute dilemmas in this area arise out of the fact that there is usually a degree of danger in any product or production process and it is difficult to define a degree of permissibility, or the degree of permissibility may depend on the changing state of preventative technologies or changing social perceptions of acceptable risk.

These production business ethics often deal with defective, addictive or inherently dangerous products and services (e.g. tobacco, alcohol, weapons, motor vehicles, chemical manufacturing). Along with the ethical relations between the company and the environment such as pollution and other environmental ethics issues.

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In order to keep current in ethical buisness practices seminars and workshops provide the information and guidance needed. Located in Washington DC, the 2009 Senior Leadership Team Ethics Seminar provides such an opportunity.

This years seminar, "Developing Enterprise Ethics Within Your Organization" is geared towards Senior corporate executives, Chief Ethics Officers, Chief Financial Officers and other "C-Level" Executives and members of the Board of Directors. This half-day seminar priced at $395, is led by R. Edward Freeman, professor at The Darden School and the Institute's Academic Director, and by William Senhauser, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Fannie Mae, who will lead a discussion on Building an Ethics and Compliance Infrastructure.

Although the next seminar has yet to be scheduled, if you are interested in attending or in having your executives attend contact Lisa Stewart the Program Manager at (434) 982-2177 or e-mail at seminars(at)corporate-ethics(dot)org.

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