1. V.ARUN

2. ETHICS
• Moral principles that govern a person's
behavior or the conducting of an activity.
• The basic concepts and fundamental
principles of decent human conduct.

3. BUSINESS ETHICS
• Business Ethics is the application of ethical
principles and methods to business.
• It is a specialized study of moral right or wrong
in business decisions.
• It concentrates on moral standards as they
apply to business policies, institutions and
behaviors

4. UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
• Lacking moral principles;
• unwilling to adhere to proper rules of
conduct

5. COMMON REASONS FOR UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR
• Pressure can drive people to do things they wouldn’t
normally do.
• Some people make unethical choices because they are not
sure about what really is the right thing to do.
• Self-interest, personal gain, ambition, and downright greed
are at the bottom of a lot of unethical activity in business.
• Misguided loyalty.
• Then there are those who simply never learned or do
not care about ethical values.
• Ignorance
• Competition

6. THE ROOT CAUSES OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR
• Psychological traps are the root causes of
unethical behavior.
• Primary Traps (External Stimuli)
• “Obedience to Authority”
• Personality Traps(Internal stimuli)
• “Need for Closure,”
• Defensive Traps(Two internal stimuli: guilt and
shame)
• “False Consensus Effect.”

7. ETHICS OFFICERS ASSOCIATION
• Balancing work and family 52%
• Poor leadership’ 51%
• Poor internal communication 51%
• Lack of management support 48%
• Need to meet goals 46%

8. ETHICAL ABUSE
• Executive Tactics
• Obedience to Authority
• Need for Closure
• False Consensus Effect
• Deliberate Deception
• Violation of Conscience
• Failure to Honor Commitments
• Unlawful Conduct
• Disregard of Company Policy

9. EFFECTS
• LOSS OF CONFIDENCE
• LOSS OF RESOURCES
• NEW REGULATION

10. PREVENTING UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR
Hiring the right employees
Regularly check and audit unethical behaviour
Implement the policies into their practices
Incentives and punishments
Open and transparent business practices