The topic of business ethics has been around for centuries, with many different schools of thought and theories. The most common school is that of personal integrity. Business ethics has been taught since the early 1900s, however, there are many different schools of thought and theories. Many business schools are devoted to the subject of personal integrity, but they can also be quite different. My personal ethics are based on my belief that integrity is the foundation of a successful business.
The question of why you should or shouldn’t do something is a very important one, as it has many different answers, depending on the context. But for me, the key is to never lie or cheat. In business, this means not telling someone you’ve hired to do something that you did not hire them to do, and not using anyone else.
I started thinking about this recently when I had an interview for a new job. The interviewer was going to ask me about personal integrity, so I decided to take a moment and write out the question on a whiteboard.
Should I not take responsibility for the actions when I was asked that question? I knew what I was doing was wrong. No one can be held responsible for the actions that took me out, so I took responsibility. That was the first step in the process.
What is personal integrity? Simply put it means doing what is right. When I say, “Do what is right,” I don’t mean don’t do something unethical or wrong. I mean, “Do the right thing.” We tend to think of the word “right” in a very utilitarian sense, so when we are asked to do something that is not wrong, we should do it.
Most people use the word right when it comes to moral standards, like when we say that something is right or wrong, good or bad, good enough or good enough for us, etc. But the word right can also be used in a very personal sense, when it comes to our own morals. So, when a person says, Do the right thing, it does not mean, Do what is right for everyone else, or do what is right for my friend.
The idea is that we are all individuals with our own sets of morals. We can choose to act in a certain way within those morals. So if you were to give a person a set of morals, like “do what is right” or “do what is right for everyone else”, that person would need to decide what is right for them, based on who they are and what they are doing.
But most of us don’t really think about your morals, so we don’t get to decide how to behave in this world. If you do something that we think is wrong, we are not acting in the present world. We are looking at a world where we are not allowed to be. This is a world in which there is no right or wrong. When we give something to someone, we are not acting in the present world.
This is why I think some of Google’s algorithms are so broken. If you read the Google Code of Conduct, you’ll see that they say they’re not looking at our “personal morals,” but our “business ethics.” This is where the lines between right and wrong become fuzzy. It’s not the morality of what we are doing when we give someone money, but our morality when we give them money.
This is so true. I was so worried about giving money to a company that I thought they would be in trouble if I didn’t. I was pretty sure that they wouldn’t be in trouble, but that was a few months ago. A few months ago I was giving money to one of my own customers and the CEO, or at least his head, got in my face about not getting paid.
