Ethical issues in Cross Cultural Management

Title: Ethical issues in Cross Cultural Management
Category: Business & Economy | Words: 1489 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Ethical issues in Cross Cultural Management

International companies are being pressurized by different groups of people, mainly from their stakeholders, regarding social and ethical issues. The case study 'Polaroid in and out of South Africa' (Beauchamp, 1998) leads us to the question: is it moral or not, when trading in a foreign country, to participate in immoral actions to survive"? First, the words morality and ethics have to be defined. Morality can be defined, as "the standards that an individual or a …showed first 75 words of 1489 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1489 total…by companies. However, in some countries the governments are completely corrupted and would prefer to loose foreign investment compared to their bribes. Kant stated that intrinsically, every human is good in itself, however, when people are within a group, they act on a different manner. In fact it is common that many businesses have no morality because they prefer getting high profits at the cost of the environment and the safety and health of consumers.

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