The Function and Role of Ethics in Business
According to Richard De George a company if you want to succeed in doing business
requires 3 main factors, namely good products, smooth management, and ethics. Lots of
training, education and research efforts are put in place to assist business people in producing
good products and smooth management. To produce good products, businesses can take
advantage of all modern scientific and technological devices. For example, in the
pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries, increasingly sophisticated electronics are now
available to modern consumers. Achieving smooth management, business people usually can
make full use of economics and management theory. For example, if in the past businessmen
relied on natural talent alone, now it is almost impossible for professional managers to have
sufficient skills without special education. In fact, management education has made business
a separate profession. Compared to all the efforts and programs that have been made to
improve management capabilities in business, attention to ethics in business is still very
limited. But what is important is that the role of ethics is starting to be recognized and paid
attention to. The function of business ethics itself is to build and shape good values, norms
and behavior in business. For example, in a company, business ethics can shape good
employee behavior, and can also build good business relationships with consumers and
company partners.
1. Business takes place in a moral context
Business is an important element that occurs in people's lives. We buy goods or
services to survive at least to make life more comfortable and we are also involved in the
production of goods or services needed by other people. Business cannot be separated
from moral rules, but sometimes the presence ethics in the field of business is still in
doubt; therefore, we need to look briefly at the contradictory opinions regarding ethics in
business.
I. Myths about immoral business
In society, there is an assumption that business has nothing to do with
ethics or morality. Business people just do their jobs. Sometimes there are
people who don't care about ethics and morality in their business relationships.
However, it is necessary to believe that business cannot be separated from
moral aspects. Because business does not only deal with sales and profit
