商业道德business ethics

Business Ethics

商业道德

Goal

Learn the Modern English dealing with the proper code of conduct to follow while engaged in activities for your company.

学会用洋话连篇现代美语恰当处理公司商务活动

Teaser

Do companies need to do anything special to discourage employees from breaking the rules? Can you think of any well-known example where the basic code of ethics was violated?

What do you think should happen to someone who doesn’t follow the recognized business ethics?

公司需要采取一些特殊的措施来防止雇员们违反公司的纪律么？

你能想到一些广为人知的违背基本道德规范的例子么？

你认为应该如何对待不遵守公共商业道德规范的人？

Concepts

•Based on a simple sense of knowing right from wrong

•Company rules and regulations regarding business ethics is standard policy in most Western businesses

•Contravention is often a cause for dismissal

•Knowing and following the applicable business ethics ensures a healthy operation for the company, the employees, and the customers

Vocabulary

Discrimination

Treating people unfavorably because of age, sex, race, religion, sexual preference, color, creed, or national origin.

Sexual harassment

Any form of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.

Espionage

Process of illicitly gathering information using techniques ranging from cloak-and-dagger methods (theft, blackmail, mole planting, seduction, eavesdropping) to modern data gathering measures (electronic surveillance, hiring away key employees, phony business purchase negotiation, reverse engineering, fake job interviews, trash evaluation, etc.).

Integrity

The characteristic of a company or employee holding steadfastly true to company goals, ethics and code of conduct, and behaving in a transparent, truthful, and professional fashion.

Truthfulness

Telling things the way they are, according to the facts.

Honesty

Consistently telling the truth, being sincere, and doing work with integrity.

Incompleteness

Putting a spin on a business report, presentation, press release, etc., with the intent of giving a favorable impression by hiding adverse

facts and figures.

Theft

The act of taking something doesn’t belong to you.

Misuse of the Internet

Using the Internet on company time for non-company-related pursuits.

Bribery

Money, property, or a favor given, offered, or promised to a person or accepted by a person in a position of trust as an inducement to

dishonest behavior.

Kickbacks

The act of illegally compensating someone to get a contract, to split money, or to

gain further economic, social, or political advantage.

Usage

Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances. The main conditions that apply are: · The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man.

· The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.

· The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.

· The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.

· Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim. · Th e harasser's conduct must be unwelcome.

Espionage

Every business has valuable proprietary data, such as customer and supplier lists, economic, technological and product research reports, sales and marketing plans, know- how and methods of doing business.

Theft

The most common business thefts include:

Office supplies, computer equipment, food, money.

Remember that theft is taking something with the intent to keep it. If you forget a company pen in your pocket, it doesn’t automatically imply theft .

Misuse of the Internet

Includes surfing the Web, Email, Games, etc.