of career opportunities in the field of business ethics and social responsibility?
2)
• What is ethics? What is business ethics? Why is business ethics important?
• How can business leaders encourage their companies to act ethically?
• What are corporate compliance programs?
• How do duty based ethical standards differ from outcome-based ethical standards?
• What types of ethical issues might arise in the context of international business transactions?
3)
• “Sucks” Sites—Can They Be Shut Down?
• Give examples of your own ethical standards and explain how you arrived at those standards.
• If there is a conflict between a law and an ethic, should an individual disobey the law, or should an individual obey the law even if he or she thinks it would be unethical to do so? Is there a higher law than what society provides in a particular place at a particular time?
• Would you, as owners of a business, offer a prospective employee a lower salary if (1) the employee indicated during the interview that she expected a lower salary than they had been prepared to offer based on other companies’ salaries for similar po¬sitions? (2) Paying the lower salary would violate no law? (3) The position was unique within the com¬pany (so that there were not other employees with whom she could compare pay)?
• Should ethical standards be adapted to deal with the new forms of social disruption made possible by the Internet (for example, data theft, hacking,

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