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Business Ethics
The purpose of this essay is to compare business ethics and values of MBA student with Kathy Kudler, and how   business ethics approach will help Kudler Fine Foods increase customer and employee engagement. Student business ethics information will be measured using the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory self-assessment, while Kathy’s will be based on Kudler Fine Foods employee handbook and strategic plan.
Business ethics provide guidelines for acceptable behavior by organizations in both their strategy formulation and day-to-day operations. An ethical approach is becoming necessary both for corporate success and a positive corporate image. Following pressure from consumers for more ethical and responsible business practices, many organizations are choosing to make a public commitment to ethical business by formulating codes of conduct and operating principles. In doing so, they must translate into action the concepts of personal and corporate accountability.
The results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory self-assessment (Williams Institute 2006) show that the student base his ethical perspective on what is good to be, rather than what is good to do. The student believes that ethics should focus on ways to help people achieve moral excellence and that the key factors are uprightness and integrity, also that virtue is not just an abstract principle so, he will seek for traits of honor, justice, and benevolence in the individuals. In his opinion mere compliance with rules, no matter how well-intentioned, does not make anyone an ethical person without being accompanied by consistent voluntary striving to be a morally good person.
As a manager, he believes that ethics relies on the ability of individuals to make sound moral judgment rather than comply with some preset standards of right or wrong to find a solution to a complex ethical dilemma. In other words an individual would not be capable of choosing between conflicting rules of right...