“In light of Facebook’s IPO, Twitter seemed to do everything right; that is, everything except having a gender balanced leadership team. At the time of filing, Twitter had no women amongst its board, major investors, or its executives (save for Vijaya Gadde who was appointed 5 weeks before filing). The story grabbed headlines and brought the issue of female representation in startup and tech companies to the front page.”
Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations. To be simplified, business ethics helps people to measure if the business activities are moral.
In essay “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits”, I can understand that business managers’ responsibility is to maximize profits for shareholders, and they need to follow certain social customs. They are not supposed to do things that break the law and go against the business ethics. For example, fraud and deception are not acceptable in business.
About short story, I think Twitter disobeyed the ethical principle because “Twitter had no women amongst its board, major investors, or its executives”. Sexual discrimination is not allowed in a business activity. “All men are created equal”, and there is no working ability difference between women and men. On the other hand, sometimes women are much better in some fields such as management personnel. Therefore, women deserve working opportunities.
In my opinion, sexual discrimination can be a serious issue to the society because women will protest for themselves, which causes rebellions, or strike. Maybe sometimes men have no idea how sexual discrimination is harmful to women’s spirit. If the government wants to booster the economic growth, it should set some policies to help women safeguard their legal rights.
References
http://www.scu.edu/r/ethics-center/ethicsblog/business-ethics-news/17664/TWITTER-IPO:-Where-are-the-Women?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_ethics
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ubc/reader.action?docID=10187339&page=171