Business ethics

Bad Business Ethics

Publicly owned businesses must determine how to best serve the interests of their shareholders while also maintaining strong business ethics. Below we will list some real examples of unethical behavior in business including some of the largest companies in the world.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s is just one example of a company with a history bad business ethics

Very often, a company’s relationship with its shareholders defines its ethical values. McDonald’s, despite its global success, remains the target of a vitriolic public backlash owing to what many perceive as bad business ethics in its relationships with employees and other stakeholders.

This bad business ethics example by McDonald’s is what is known as the “McDonald’s Legislation” in popular parlance. In 1972, Ray Kroc, the company’s founder made a rare donation of $250,000 to Nixon’s reelection campaign and in return got a favorable legislation that allowed companies such as McDonald’s to pay teenage employees 20 percent less than federal minimum wages. Most observers consider this a typical case of corporate influence on lawmakers to enact legislation that serve their selfish ends and harm society.

McDonald’s also doesn’t allow employees to unionize, and in one instance where workers at St. Hubert, Quebec did form a union, the company closed down the unit promptly.

The McLibel case ranks as one of McDonald’s most disastrous cases of bad business ethics and spawned tons of negative publicity. Between 1986 and 1990, activists of London Greenpeace distributed pamphlets with the title “What’s Wrong with McDonald’s Everything They Don’t Want You to Know” and the wordings “McDollars, McGreedy, McCancer, McMurder, McProfits, McGarbage,” alleging that McDonald’s promoted Third World poverty, sold unhealthy food, exploited workers and children, tortured animals, and destroyed the Amazon rain forest. McDonald’s sued the group for libel. The court, however, held McDonald’s guilty of exploiting children through advertising tactics, serving dangerously unhealthy food, paying workers low wages, indulging in union busting activities worldwide, and ignoring animal cruelty perpetrated by its suppliers.

According to me this is an unethical to me..

Walmart facing an issue

Walmart has been under fire for their mistreatment of employees and low wages for many years, and Smith's experiences highlight the brutal and unjust conditions that Walmart employees must endure.

Smith's story has remained consistent regarding the incident on Nov. 6 since the story broke in mid-November. However, the head honchos at Walmart have changed their reasons for firing Smith twice since the story broke. When the story was first published in the Times Union, Aaron Mullins, a spokesperson for Walmart, said he could not discuss Smith's firing, as it was a personnel issue.

Yet when the story gained national attention after it was covered in the Washington Post, Mullins responded, stating that Smith was fired because he redeemed bottles that were returned to customer service by other Walmart customers. Essentially, Mullins argued that the $5.10 that Smith redeemed was "property" of Walmart, and in redeeming the cans, Smith stole from the company. Bear in mind the fact that Walmart is one of the largest employers in the United States, with $482.2 billion in net sales during the last fiscal year.

Just a few days after Mullins' response to the Washington Post, Michelle Malashock, who works for Walmart's communications department, admitted that Smith was fired because he didn't admit his previous criminal charges during the application process. Smith claims he told his interviewer that he had been convicted of robbery and that they performed a background check on him before he was hired.

While the inconsistencies at the executive level are a bad reflection on Walmart and a nightmare for public relations, the worst part of the Smith controversy is the lack of compassion that administrators at Walmart show for their employees. Thomas Smith was formerly homeless and does not own a car. He is clearly trying to turn his life around; he currently lives at the St. Charles Lwanga Center, a halfway house in Albany, which helped him to apply for the job at Walmart. Smith redeemed the cans not because he wanted to steal from the corporation that pays him minimal wages, but because he thought the cans were left as trash. He was unaware that he couldn't take empty bottles.

On top of all of that, what does $5 matter to a company that makes over $400 billion dollars in net sales every year Is it really worth firing a man who may have needed the $ more than any Walmart executive ever could? It is shameful that those at the top of the corporations that employ so many in our country are not compassionate enough to consider the lives or the challenges that their employees might be facing.

According to me this is an unethical issue.

Habits that may change your life

This topic is about cancer 

Hello everyone,

Habits everyone have their own habits maybe those were good or bad 

Good habits like to enjoy life without having bad habits like "cigarette, alcohol,drugs,..."

Either good nor bad habits both can change your life one takes to high and the other takes you to down now let's discuss about bad habits those were ethical or unethical

Cigarette: 

The companies who produce cigarette they clearly mention that it causes cancer even though we all were inhale cigarettes can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air sacs (alveoli) found in your lungs. Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. 

Some of us known about cigarette's that it spoils the life.

According to me the companies were ethically right and the people were ethically wrong it is unethical.

Alcohol:

Alcohol is actually a good habit for the people who live in cold temperatures always for then it is a good habit because alcohol that works as a stabilizer it remains unchange in of your body temperature. Even though the have an habit of drinking they will only drink upto a limit but some person who live in normal temperature also they will drink to have some fun it's good, but when the limit has been crossed the person loose his control on his body and on his brain. And by over drinking of alcohol causes Liver disease is influenced by the amount and duration of alcohol abuse. Chronic, heavy drinking poses a substantial risk for its development. Drinking heavily significantly increases the risk of alcoholic fatty liver, an early and reversible consequence of excessive alcohol intake

According to me drinking alcohol is ethical upto a limit over Drinking of alcohol is unethical.

Drugs:

Drugs is very bad habit it may spoils your life it edicts you to take more and more, once you inhale or inject it makes you to have more and more it spoils your body nervous system and your mental stability it causes 

• Mental health disorder.
• Peer pressure.
• Lack of family involvement. 
• Early use. 
• Taking a highly addictive drug

According to me inhaling or injecting drugs are unethical.

Conclusion:

Everyone have a good thing that to get in to the new life due to others bad habits they lost their life and career like inhaling drugs is not a good habit to achieve the success, drinking alcohol and driving vehicle is dangerous and it leads to met with an accident, inhaling cigarettes causes cancer not only to you it may chance to get others because of you. 
If you want to have an end of your life or career carry on with your bad habitual but don't spoil the others life and career.