2. Community Government
Business
Owners Employees
Consumers
3. Youth are the power of any nation, it is
the time of globalization and youth is
breaking all the barriers between society
and old culture to create a world of
togetherness.
Now youth are becoming interprenurer
and in their busy hectic life schedule they
are feeling the need of society.
4. How a single business decision changes
the course of life, how society at large
benefits from business ventures, how
business societies are formed due to
mutual give and take relationships, how
the socio-economic customs are an
outcome of businesses are dealt with
here.
5. Social ethics
Social contrast
Corporate social responsibilities
Business scams
Social enterprises
6. Current ethical issues in your society will reflect
a particular community's leaning towards given
circumstances. For example, the issue of head
scarves - Islamic women covering their faces or
their hair. As a matter of course, this is a
practice that is dictated by the religion they
choose to follow, but in circumstances where
terrorism has the world in its grip, is it a
violation of human rights to ban the wearing of
burqas when the question is one of national
security? Is it a political reform, against the
principles of social ethics or is it curbing of
freedom of choice?
7. If a woman is pregnant due to
unfortunate incidents like rape then is it
not her right to choose abortion?
if a couple gets involved in unprotected
sex without using contraceptive methods
resulting in a pregnancy, what step
should they take?
8. And what in cases of
teenage pregnancy?
What if is the mother
is mentally,
emotionally and
economically
unprepared to handle
the nuisances of being
a mother or parent?
Isn't it logically correct
and more responsible
on her part to go for
abortion? These are in
essence some of the
most vital questions
that don't have some
fixed answers
9. Nike's Kidd presented a video of a factory in
Vietnam. The camera followed a Vietnamese
inspector on his rounds, interviewing plucky,
smiling workers, running his hands over
gleaming production equipment, and visiting
immaculate homes. Unfortunately for Nike,
two days later—while the conference was
still going on—a story appeared on the front
page of the New York Times about
conditions in Vietnamese Nike plants, where
workers were being exposed to carcinogens
at 177 times safe levels, and were being
paid just $10 for a 65 hour workweek (far
longer than local law allows).
10. In 1898 white citizens of Wilmington,
North Carolina, resenting African
Americans’ involvement in local
government and incensed by an editorial
in an African American newspaper
accusing white women of loose sexual
behavior, rioted and killed dozens of
blacks.
11. British policies of divide and rule as well
as enumeration of the population into
rigid categories during the tenure of
British rule in India contributed towards
the hardening of segregation of caste
identities.
12. Jews in Europe generally were forced, by
decree or by informal pressure, to live in
highly segregated ghettos and shtetls.
In 779 the Tang dynasty issued an edict
which forced Uighurs to wear their ethnic
dress, stopped them from marrying
Chinese females, and banned them from
pretending to be Chinese.
13. It respects cultural differences and finds the
business opportunities in building the skills
of employees.
Traditionally in the United States, CSR has
been defined much more in terms of a
philanphropic model. Companies make
profits, unhindered except by fulfilling their
duty to pay taxes. Then they donate a
certain share of the profits to charitable
causes. It is seen as tainting the act for the
company to receive any benefit from the
giving.
14. A concept whereby companies decide
voluntarily to contribute to a better
society and a cleaner environment.
Though India is one of the fastest
growing economies, socio-economic
problems like poverty, illiteracy, lack of
healthcare etc.
15. Four years ago, Reliance Industries Ltd.
launched a countrywide initiative known
as “Project Drishti”, to restore the eye-
sights of visually challenged Indians from
the economically weaker sections of the
society. This project, started by one of
India’s corporate giants has brightened
up the lives of over 5000 people so far.
16. As India's 'kissan' Company, ITC has
taken care to involve farmers in the
designing and management of the entire
'e-Choupal' initiative.
ITC's Agri Business Division, one of
India's largest exporters of agricultural
commodities, has conceived e-Choupal
as a more efficient supply chain aimed at
delivering value to its customers around
the world on a sustainable basis
17. BUSINESS
SCAMS
ImClone Systems
founder Sam Waksal
tipped domestic diva
Martha Stewart that
the FDA would not
approve their new
cancer drug. Stewart
sold about $228,000
in stocks right before
ImClone dropped 18
percent. Although she
first claimed she was
innocent
18. SATYAM”S
SCAM
One of India's biggest-
ever corporate scandals
took a sensational new
turn today when the
chairman of Satyam, the
IT services giant,
admitted he had
orchestrated a $1billion
(£669 million) fraud, and
resigned
. the World Bank said
that it had blacklisted
Satyam, India's fourth-
biggest software-services
provider, for eight years,
alleging that improper
benefits had been offered
to the bank's employees.
