Introduction
How to behave toward oneself and toward other individuals is a matter of making choices: whether to be frien**y or unfrien**y; whether to tell the truth or lie; whether to be generous or greedy; whether to study in order to pass an exam or to spend valuable study time watching television and cheat to pass it. These and all other questions about how people act toward themselves and one another are dealt with in a field of study called ethics. Another name for ethics is morality. One word is derived from the Greek ethos, meaning “character,” and the other from the Latin mores, meaning “custom.”
Business ethics
Business ethics is a form of the art of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environmen