ETHICS IN BUSINESS ARE OPTIONAL EXTRA?

INTRODUCTION
Ethics in business is about doing what is right, and what is generally accepted as good, or the standard set up to be adopted. “It aims at inculcating a sense within a company’s employee population of how to conduct business responsibly” (Hurst, 2004). The interpretation of business ethics may be difficult especially in international business operations.
In business, ethics differs from religious ethics that should be followed holistically. In this sense, business ethics may come, as a bluff where sometimes what is unethical religiously may be ethical business wise. According “ethics of business are games ethics, different from the ethics of religion” (Carr, 1968). Falsehood may cease to be falsehood when both parties accept that the truth should not be spoken. So adopted moves of businesspersons may not be ethical in the outer world, but business ethics sometimes permits and overlooks those unseemly practices. This may include outwitting competitors to gain a contract through hand shake, playing smart to be recruited for a juicy post when the qualifications wanted are not presently available, some employees allow their sales personnel to adopt ‘pressure to deceive’ strategy in the process of handling customers etc. No wonder Representative Omar Burleson, the Democrat from Texas stated that business ethics are liken to ethics of Congress characterized as ‘Ethics is a barrel of worms’ i.e. a pungent summing up of the problem of deciding who is ethical in politics (ibid).

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