Replying to LO27578 --
Laura,
I enjoyed reading your contribution and request. Here are some of my
reactions to what you wrote meant not so much to provide further resources
for you two, but rather to promote an inner or outer dialogue.
You wrote:
> Business ethics is not as ethical as it sounds. You'd better do something
> you really like, this will make you more respectful towards your
> co-workers and customers, we call this creative/original business, or
> maybe business integrity is a better name.
Is it not true that ethics in business is especially relativistic? I
understand by your writing that you have in mind a "well-connected"
business in the sense that there is significant information, and products
or services serve customers with computer access of various kinds at
various levels.
But one culture's ethics are another country's material for jokes and
derision. Cliches and stereotypes abound. One culture's business person
listens thoughtfully, nods, but does just the opposite of what's desired.
Another culture settles business--most often among men--in the heat of a
sauna amid beer-dipped birch boughs picked just in season. A third culture
has a sub-culture of legal professionals who are asked, or actively seek,
to run business by the letter of the law.
Is there a sub-set of ethics in business which involves a purer subject
[sic] focused on psychology and sociology, where the basic interactions of
eye, ear and voice have a profound impact on how business goes forward?
A handshake on one culture is sealing wax, while in another it's something
less.
Anyway, I scatter these ideas the the wind of electrons and positrons.
Best of luck in your thesis, and congratulations on your daughter!
Regards,
Barry
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