Ethics

8 Pages 1894 Words

If I were to ask one hundred people how they viewed the importance of being honest and ethical in their business practices, I wouldn’t be surprised to get one hundred different answers. Very probably, I would get the answer of “it depends on the situation”. This seems to be a very normal response when the question of morals and ethics is asked. Besides, who decides what is moral and what is considered proper business ethics. In our case study, we look at the company BlueSuitMom.com and the misleading statements made by its founder, Maria Bailey. The statements she used to help gain customers were misleading to her customers and the public. She’s guilty of adding the names of freelancers and part-timers to the biographies in her business and creating fictitious e-mail addresses to give the impression that there were other people staffing her nonexistent departments. Additionally, she suggested to prospective clients that she had executives from companies such as Blockbuster and Alamo on staff when she had only received free consulting services from people with those corporations. Many people would say that what she did was smart business savvy, while I say she was wrong for exaggerating the information she used as “bait” to gain a larger customer base. The question we will examine is “was it immoral for Maria Bailey to represent her company as she did?”
While the case can be argued that every one stretches the truth in business, I don’t believe this to be true. I do know that many companies do stretch the truth, but not all. A major problem in today’s society stems from people failing to recognize the origin of truth and ethics. I believe that these truths come from God and that without the belief in these truths we have a chaotic society. When people want to argue that what may be right for me is not what may be right for you, it leads to confusion. No one seems to want to give credit to its origin, G...