- •Part I. Unit 8 business ethics and social responsibility
- •Ethics and business
- •2) Match the terms with their definitions.
- •Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business
- •Ethical issues in management
- •Vocabulary tasks
- •Ethics in Contemporary Management
- •Improving ethical performance
- •Ways of Improving Ethical Performance
- •Solving ethical dilemmas
- •Approaches to Ethical Decision Making
- •Round table session
- •Part II. Unit 8 business ethics and social responsibility
- •Vocabulary Development
- •Investigate the idea of social responsibility and business ethics
- •Verbs to speak out
- •Analysis and discussion
- •1. An Ethics Test
- •Being Ethical
- •National Minorities’ Employment in Different Sectors of Economy, %
- •Problem 1. Insider trading.
- •Problem 2. Career crisis?
- •Contemporary Ethics: The e. F Hutton Case
- •Writing
- •1. Abstract writing
- •Ethics: the Most Fundamental Principle of Accounting
- •2. Essay writing
Part I. Unit 8 business ethics and social responsibility
Learning goals After studying this unit you will be able to:
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READING I
Ethics and business
Before you read
Key terms
1) Match the terms with their Russian equivalents.
1) obstructive strategy
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a) ответственность перед законом |
2) defensive strategy |
b) приспособительная стратегия |
3) legal responsibility |
c) обструкционная или стратегия создания препятствий |
4) adaptive strategy |
d) действенная стратегия |
5) proactive strategy |
e) защитная стратегия |
2) Match the terms with their definitions.
1) ethics |
a) a set of principles that people use to decide what is right and what is wrong
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2) social responsibility |
b) a normative discipline that applies everyday moral or ethical norms to business
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3) legal responsibility
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c) obligations to society involving a degree of voluntary response
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4) business ethics |
d) complying with specific laws and regulations
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Think ahead
1. Do you think there is a difference between ‘social responsibility’ and ‘ethics’? What is the purpose of business in your opinion? Give your reasons.
2. Match the following companies’ principles with the type of social responsibility strategies:
1) Go with the flow. a) obstructive
2) It is not our responsibility. b) defensive
3) Build a better society. c) adaptive
4) We do our best. d) proactive
TEXT 8.1 Scan the text and discuss the difference between ‘ethics’, ‘business ethics’, ‘social responsibility’, ‘legal responsibility’.