Part one of term paper
Issues to Consider When Implementing a Corporate Code of Ethics Business leaders are talking more today about ethics than in the past few decades and society is demanding it. When President Eisenhower held presidency, our society trusted big corporations and did not question their motives or actions. The American people felt that whatever th ...

Part two of term paper
... (Behrens and Rosen, 1997, pp. 768-770). Due to a more informed and conscientous society, nearly 75% of all American corporations have implemented a corporate code of ethics (Cavanaugh, 1997, pp. 796-811). A company in today’s high tech world that is deciding whether or not to be socially ethical needs to consider the following: the cost of being ethical, conflicts between goals and values, and the models of ethical decision making as companies encounter increasing pressure from the public to b ...