This 7-page paper is a proposal form on how a company can work with an ethical program. Focusing on Ben & Jerry's of an example of a corporation that makes good money while doing good things for the community, the paper suggests recommendations when it comes to corporate responsibility and ethics. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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seem to go together very well. This was the case, even before Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing (not to mention Arthur Andersen) made the headlines for "irregular" accounting practices. The
point is, none of these companies really broke any sort of law or accounting code with their actions. But they did behave very irresponsibly and unethically. The results of those
actions, of course, were well-known. All three declared bankruptcy, with only WorldCom coming back to life. The other two are simply gone.
However, as mentioned above, ethics and business were a concern to much of the community and stakeholders even before the entire world (outside of the energy community) had heard of
Enron. Back in the early 1990s, businesses were talking about proactive approach to ethics; formulating specific ethics policies and full-time ethics experts on staff (Zetlin 59).
The problem is, there are companies out there who are convinced that ethics and success just dont go together. For example, taking pains to spare the
environment means that progress cant march forward. It either has to be one or the other. The same thing exists when it comes to profits -- according to those who
want to see a larger bottom line, its impossible to do it the "normal" way, so the best way to do it is to slash costs (generally by slashing people
and other resources) and to maybe handle the books a little differently, so that Wall Street and others are happy with what is on the balance sheets.
The problem here, however, is that acting in a way that is non-ethical puts the company in a bad position in the public. Like Enron,