{"id":8468,"date":"2016-11-11T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/masterybusiness2xngcxmasterspring2016\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=8468"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:20:51","slug":"introduction-to-ethical-challenges","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/chapter\/introduction-to-ethical-challenges\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Ethical Challenges","rendered":"Introduction to Ethical Challenges"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: identify common ethical challenges faced by organizations<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-9029\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2016\/12\/16170602\/1200px-W._S._Gilbert_The_Duke_of_Plaza-Toro_Bribery.gif\" alt=\"a man in a tuxedo accepting a payoff or bribe behind his back from another man.\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" \/>\r\n\r\nIn a perfect world, it\u2019s always clear what\u2019s right or wrong. In the real world, things are often not so clear.\u00a0Someone\u2019s wrong can be your right, which means your right will definitely, at some point, be someone else\u2019s wrong. Most of the time, the \"right\" choice is\u00a0subjective. In business, many of these ethical challenges appear in the form of bribes, conflicts of interest, issues of honesty and integrity, and whistleblowing.\r\n\r\nIn this section you'll learn some of the special terms for particular kinds of unethical behavior in business.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: identify common ethical challenges faced by organizations<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9029\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2016\/12\/16170602\/1200px-W._S._Gilbert_The_Duke_of_Plaza-Toro_Bribery.gif\" alt=\"a man in a tuxedo accepting a payoff or bribe behind his back from another man.\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, it\u2019s always clear what\u2019s right or wrong. In the real world, things are often not so clear.\u00a0Someone\u2019s wrong can be your right, which means your right will definitely, at some point, be someone else\u2019s wrong. Most of the time, the &#8220;right&#8221; choice is\u00a0subjective. In business, many of these ethical challenges appear in the form of bribes, conflicts of interest, issues of honesty and integrity, and whistleblowing.<\/p>\n<p>In this section you&#8217;ll learn some of the special terms for particular kinds of unethical behavior in business.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-8468\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Ethical Challenges. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Linda Williams and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Duke of Plaza-Toro. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikimedia Commons. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gondoliers#\/media\/File:W._S._Gilbert_The_Duke_of_Plaza-Toro_Bribery.gif\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gondoliers#\/media\/File:W._S._Gilbert_The_Duke_of_Plaza-Toro_Bribery.gif<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":26,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Ethical Challenges\",\"author\":\"Linda Williams and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"The Duke of Plaza-Toro\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Wikimedia Commons\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gondoliers#\/media\/File:W._S._Gilbert_The_Duke_of_Plaza-Toro_Bribery.gif\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"89442401-5490-4cfc-bd33-c4f5210e3789","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-8468","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15441,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/8468\/revisions\/15441"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/8468\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}