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Issues to Consider When Implementing a Corporate Code of Ethics
Business leaders are talking more today about ethics than in the
past few decades and society is demanding it. When President Eisenhower
held presidency, our society trusted big corporations and did not question
their motives or actions. The American people felt that whatever the
corporations were doing would benefit the people and the country. Then
came the Ni ....
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.... (pp. 781-787). Corporate executives of corporations may
have individual social values that they feel are important to social
responsibility, but according to Freidman, they must not let these values
interfere with their primary responsibility for which they were hired. In
Freidmans opinion, the primary responsibility of executives is to maximize
corporate profit benefitting owners and stockholders. Social
responsibility is a role the government must maintai ....
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