Ethics and Corporate Governance: Corporate Social Responsibility

Contents
Introduction 2
Definition of Ethics 2
Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 2
History of Ethics 2 Socrates 2 Plato 2 Aristotle 2 Cynics 2 Cyrenaics 2
Business Ethics 2 Nike 2 McDonalds 2 Enron 2 Wal-Mart 2
Why Business Ethics is Necessary 2
Conclusion 2
Bibliography 2

Introduction
This assignment is a brief over view of ethics in the modern day era. It begins with a definition of ethics, followed by a concise explanation of corporate social responsibility. Ethics has evolved over a number of decades and still is to this day, with that a short history of ethics will be demonstrated in this assignment.
Ethics determines whether or not a company has good or bad morale. Unfortunately a company that holds excellent ethics are not highlighted in the media as a company that has bad ethics. In this essay will illustrate examples of how large national and international companies came to have bad ethics.
To conclude this assignment will be a brief outlay of why ethics is necessary to the business environment in this day and age.
Definition of Ethics
Ethics can be defined at vital concepts and essential principles of moral human conduct. It consists of the study of universal ethics such as the essential parity of all men and women, natural or human rights, compliance to the law of land, concern for health and safety and, progressively more, for the natural environment.
(Dictionary, B. 2014)
Albert Camus, a French Nobel prize winner, author, journalist and philosopher had his own opinion on ethics he believed that; “A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
(Camus, A. 2014)
Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Corporate social responsibility includes not only what companies do with their profits, but also how they