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study of business situations, activities and decisions where issues of right and wrong are addressed.

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5. Moral Obligation of Multinational Companies

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5. Moral Obligation of Multinational Companies

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- Social Responsibilities : for MNCs to give something back to the societies that enable them to prosper and grow.
- Example: BP, company policy to undertake " social investment" in the countries where it does business.

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- a Greek word, it means character or manners.

- principles, value, and beliefs that define what is right and wrong behaviour.

- moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.

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Employment practices would be different between home and host country of doing international business.

In this case,Firms should establish minimal acceptable standards that safeguard the

basic rights and dignity of employees and audit the foreign subsidiaries and

subcontractors on a regular basis

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eMany rights are not universally accepted such as:
1) freedom of association
2) freedom of speech
3) freedom of assembly
4) freedom of movement
5) freedom from political expression

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Environmental ethics is normally defined as the study of human interaction with nature. In a business sense, environmental ethics is concerned with a company's responsibility to protect the environment in which it operates.

There are many environmental moral issues relevant to business.
1)Ecology
2)Traditional business attitudes towards the environment
3)Problems involving environmental abuse
4)Environmental protection

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Effect of corruption
1. Inefficiency
2. Lost resources
3. Weakened development
4. Increases crime

Possible causes of corruption
1. Personal greed
2. Decline of personal ethical sensitivity
3.Lack of transparency, especially at the institutional level

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-refers to the property rights from the product that involved in intellectual activity

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1.Patents is exclusive rights for manufacture,use or sales of that invention.eg:Tesla patented the design of their Regulator,so no one can copy their design without their agreement unless they paid certain amount of prices.

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A copyright is the exclusive right of authors, composers, playwrights, artists, and publishers to publish and dispose of their work as they see fit.

example of copyrights of a novel

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design and names by which merchants or manufacturers designate and differentiate their products

example: a brand, logo or company name.

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1.Stay away form the countries where intellectual property law are lax.
2.file lawsuits
3.lobby government for the international property rights agreements and enforcement
4.Technological advancement in verifying product. Eg:  QR codes
5.Offer bounty for helping in reports fake product

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Example of QR codes verification in prevent consumer buying fake products