Special ethics

Citation

(2002), "Special ethics", Work Study, Vol. 51 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2002.07951eaa.007

Special ethics

Special ethics

There seems to be a "movement" afoot to (re-)introduce ethics onto the business agenda. Recent scares and scandals may perhaps suggest that there is a small minority of unscrupulous – and unethical – people around in the business world, but surely this was ever so. Surely, also, the percentage of unethical people in business is broadly the same as in other walks of life. (There is no shortage of scandal in other arenas – even that of the church.) So, do we need a new impetus, new indoctrination or training, or can we just assume that these things (scandals) have always happened, and always will. Then the rest of us can go on about our (ethical) business without having some "nanny" lecturing us on our behaviour.