Locate an article in the Bellevue LibGuide, a scholarly journal or a news article that discusses a business demonstrating poor ethical or social standards. Using the article you selected as your reference point, summarize the article and, more specifically, discuss at least two of the following questions:
1. When can a business that uses unethical practices operate successfully in the long term?
2. How can a business that practices poor social standards such as contributing to water, soil or air contamination operate successfully in the long term?
3. When should a business care about ethical or social considerations?
4. Who is punished when a company uses bad ethical or social judgment?
5. Is it acceptable to be unethical or socially irresponsible, and why?
6. When is it acceptable to offer or accept a bribe or kickback?
7. What is the cost of unethical or socially irresponsible practices?
8. What can an American business do to improve (increase) its Corruption Perceptions Index score?
9. Where should the line on ethical behavior be drawn?
10. What part does ethics training play in corporate oversight?
11. What unethical practice has been most predominant in the past 10 years?
12. What should you do once you realize you compromised your ethics?
13. When is it acceptable to be unethical; provide an example?
14. You are told of an unethical practice in your group; how should you react?
15. You find out your boss is being unethical but nobody was directly harmed; what do you do?
16. An employee falsely accuses another employee of unethical behavior; what do you do?
17. You identify a glitch in the accounting system which caused the company profitability to be overstated in the most recent SEC report, what do you do?