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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Ethics in Business


Ethical business practices have always been crucial to building sustainable relationships with staff, customers and suppliers. Thus, in the past decade we have seen a huge upsurge in consumer, regulator & society demands for ethical practices, products and services.

The University of Nottingham has put online a student guide to the "Ethical Matrix" approach to making those often tricky ethics decisions. Their model is based on a food production [farming] example, but incorporates the recurrent ethical issues of...

** Fairness [justice]
** Freedom of Choice
** Mutual Well-being

This guide is freely available at this link.

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