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Ethics and Social Responsibilities Paper
January 8th, 2007伦理与社会责任纸
1月8th,2007
现在商业伦理的概念和社会责任已经成为广泛应用于现代商业环境中。他们试图创造最好的信誉,大公司在那里最好尽可能似乎道德和承担社会责任。之所以说“似乎”,而不是“是”就是因为不是所有的公司的客户服务多关心他们,但只是假装。
摘要本文的主要目的是讨论声明:“既然目标的公众公司股东财富最大化,管理应采取任何行动,必须实现这一目标,只要没有律法违背“语境中的伦理与社会责任。
在进入市场的公司,其目的是停留在市场上寻找一个长期的,总是要检查是否有一个机会,他们可能违反法律。如果有这样的一个机会,这样的公司改变他们的策略以适应现有立法。
最终,观察现行法律、法规的重要性,然而,这不是唯一的责任,公司将不得不考虑。创业公司做出的承诺相等,以大量的人,包括股东、雇员和消费者。所有的上面所提到的人群中会受到公司的运作,因此,它是重要的发展这一政策,这将允许符合所有的承诺。毫无疑问,任何商业的主要目的是利润最大化,因此,企业采取一切可能的措施,使利润最大化和股东的利润;但是,它并非总是适合公司的员工和客户。如果没有违反国家法律,但是这并不意味着就没有违反伦理和社会责任。公司专注于其股东财富最大化,所以男人很少注意它的社会功能,是“配置原则的社会责任,社会过程反应、政策、程序以及可观察到的结果,因为这涉及到公司的社会关系“[Maignan和拉斯顿,2002)。有几个原则的社会责任,包括“社区、多样性、环境、道德、经济责任、人权、安全”[Lallatin条,2004条]。因此,如果一个公司是唯一感兴趣的利润,它可能会减少质量及其员工的工作环境,为了节约,要消除所有的社会计划,没有义务根据法律,但根据原则理想的社会责任感。在这种情况下,一个公司将未能处理文化的多样性,它会污染环境,除非它是不加禁止根据法律,或忽视安全条例。管理公司将只集中精力的员工提高绩效的同时,提供后者非常小的效益。
Nowadays the concepts of business ethics and social responsibility have become widely used in the modern business environment. Trying to create the best possible reputation, large corporations are doing there best to seem as ethical as possible and to bear social responsibility. The reason for saying “to seem” but not “to be” is because not all of the businesses care much about customers they serve, but only pretend to.
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the statement “Since the goal of the public corporation is to maximize shareholder wealth, management should take any action necessary to achieve this goal so long as no law is violated” in the context of ethics and social responsibility.
Before entering a market companies, which aim at staying in the market for a long term, always have to examine whether there is a chance that they may violate laws. If there is such a chance, such companies change their strategy in order to fit in with the existing legislation.
Ultimately, observing the existing laws and regulations is of high importance; however, it is not the only responsibility that companies will have to consider. Starting up a company is equaled to making a commitment to a large number of people, including shareholders, employees and consumers. All of the mentioned above groups of people will be affected by the company’s operation, thus, it is important to develop such a policy, which would allow to meet all commitments. Undoubtedly, the main purpose of any business is profit maximization, thus, businesses take all possible measures to maximize their profit and profit of its shareholders; however, it is not always good for company’s employees and clients. If there is no violation of state laws, it does not necessarily mean that there is no violation of the principles of ethics or social responsibility. When the company is focused on maximization of its shareholder wealth, it pays very little attention to its social performance, which is the “configuration of the principles of social responsibility, processes of social responsiveness, and policies, programs, and observable outcomes as they relate to the firm’s societal relationships” [Maignan and Ralston, 2002]. There are several principles of social responsibility, which include “community, diversity, environment, ethics, financial responsibility, human rights and safety” [Lallatin, 2004]. Hence, if a company is only interested in profits, it may decrease the quality of working conditions of its employees in order to economize, to eliminate all social programs, which are not obligatory according to the law, but desirable according to the principles of social responsibility. In this case a company will fail to address cultural diversity; it will pollute the environment unless it is not prohibited according to the law; or neglect safety regulations. Management of the company will only concentrate on increasing the performance of the employees, offering the latter very little benefits.
In order to make businesses be more socially responsible, government may issue new laws and regulations. Of course, it won’t be as affective as when a company itself understands the importance of developing certain social programs, creating better working conditions for the employees, taking care about the environment and etc.
Though some scientists and entrepreneurs “argue that businesses are not responsible toward society in general, but only toward their stakeholders” [Maignan and Ralston, 2002], it is not exactly so, because businesses are responsible for the issue of environmental pollution, which is very acute nowadays. They are responsible for producing safe products, because they can be purchased by any member of the society. A business is not obliged to take care of the society in a whole, however, it is logic that “a firm committed to CSR (corporate social responsibility) has principles and processes in place to minimize its negative impacts and maximize its positive impacts on selected stakeholder issues” [Maignan and Ralston, 2002]. In this case, stakeholders include not only partners and supplies, but employees and customers are also included in the concept stakeholders.
In conclusion, company’s desire to maximize profits of its shareholders, avowedly conflicts with some of the principles of social responsibility, which leads to the falling off of company’s reputation.
Bibliography
1. Lallatin, C.S. (2004). Business Ethics = Social Responsibility. Retrieved February 7, 2007 from
2. Maignan, I., Ralston, D.A. (2002). Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe and the U.S.: Insights from Businesses’ Self-Presentations. Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 33.
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