5.8: Outcome- Ensuring Ethical Marketing and Sales
What you’ll learn to do: describe measures companies take to encourage ethical behavior
Ethical issues arise at both an organizational level and an individual level. A single individual can engage in unethical behavior, but most ethical breaches that have significant impact on a business occur when many individuals come together to act unethically. This section will review the steps that businesses take at each level to define ethical behavior and create a culture that encourages employees to do the right thing.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.—Socrates
The specific things you’ll learn in this section include:
- Explain the importance of ethics policies and a culture of accountability for all employees
- Identify the unique ethical considerations and roles for company executives
- Describe how companies manage ethical behavior of marketing employees
Learning Activities
The learning activities for this section include the following:
- Reading: A Culture of Accountability
- Reading: Executive Role in Ethics
- Reading: Ethics for Marketing Employees
- Simulation: Ethics
- Self Check: Ensuring Ethical Marketing and Sales
Contributors and Attributions
- Outcome: Ensuring Ethical Marketing and Sales. Provided by : Lumen Learning. License : CC BY: Attribution