Business Ethics

Business ethics has been discussed as a very important part of the existence of the

business. There are lots of issues surrounding the topic of business ethics. Discourses on the

issue have evolved and the perspectives on the topic have significantly expanded in recent years.

Indeed, the recent proliferation of high profile business scandal has started to question the

compatibility of business and ethics. With the expansion of the perspective on the issue, business

ethics is becoming more and more challenging for the business.

The increase in the number of cases of business failures due to fraud and other

malpractices have started to emerge as a very important catalyst to the increase in the discourse

about the need to revitalize business ethics awareness in the workplace. Some of the current

discourses appear to invoke the need to actually increase the regulatory power of the

government. The increasing power of the organization and the decline of the state as a primary

institution in the country have made it necessary for many analysts to continuously propose a

deeper role of the state in managing the conducts of the organization (Jennings, 2003). There are

several problems that this paper wishes to address.

First of course is the need to investigate the role of business ethics in the organization.

How coherent business ethics is in relation to the goals of the organization to thrive successfully