Behavioral Trends in Business

There are so many instances in life where ethics play a major role in decisions that business's and we make. Ethics also can determine the way companies use technology to make decisions and determine the level of stress that is imposes within an organization. Ethical decision making processes take place mostly when conclusions are reached that directly effect people, but what are ethics? The Random House-Webster¹s Dictionary of Modern English defines ethics as: The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of actions and the goodness and badness of motives and ends. This paints a pretty clear picture of what it means to make ethical decisions.
When employees in organizations make decisions to act unethically, they affect not only the company itself, but also its shareholders, employees and customers. …