Social Responsibility and Globalisation

Business Ethics

Content

• Key ideas, including:

  • corporate social responsibility

  • whistle-blowing

  • good ethics is good business

  • globalisation

Key Knowledge

• what it is (that a business has responsibility towards the community and environment) and its application to stakeholders, such as employees, customers, the local community, the country as whole and governments

• what it is (that an employee discloses wrongdoing to the employer or the public) and its application to the contract between employee and employer

• what it is (that good business decisions are good ethical decisions) and its application to shareholders and profit-making

• what it is (that around the world economies, industries, markets, cultures and policy-making is integrated) and its impact on stakeholders