Ethical Business Standards and Social Essay

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BRIBERY AS AN ETHICAL ISSUE

Bribery is fundamentally unethical because it is inherently unfair. Regardless of the situation, bribery means that someone is transferring some form of compensation that is not permitted and that necessarily undermines the fair efforts of competitors or the purpose of rules and regulation. Where bribery occurs in connection with gaining an unfair advantage over others (such as bribing a college professor for a good grade), the ethical violation is a function of the fundamental right of others competing for the same goal to achieve it through only legitimate means. The student who bribes a college professor and receives a grade for it harms the other students by lowering the grading curve for everybody. In the long run, many instances of bribery of this kind would also diminish the value of the educational degree from an institution whose reputation as lowered by unqualified graduates who perform less well in the professional world after graduation.
The ethical violation would be harmful to the entire college community of that institution.

In other instances, bribery may be unethical because of the dangers it poses to society and members of the general public. For example, where a construction company bribes government site inspectors to avoid delays caused by compliance issues, the consequences could jeopardize the health, safety, and welfare of others by allowing a building to be constructed without correcting serious problems that would have been identified and cited by the officials who took the bribes not to do their inspections seriously. Obviously, bribery always represents a very serious ethical violation......

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