Business Ethics
Sep 14th, 2011 by kevmason
Article: Has 9/11 Changed Business Ethics? (http://sustainablebusinessforum.com/craneandmatten/53995/has-911-changed-business-ethics)
The article states that 9/11 has changed the way of US business ethics by disrespecting and abusing the people through privacy, government spending, and enthic discrimination. Here they are in point form:
Privacy: – started looking at/into personal emails, phone conversations, financial records, tax statements, just to name a few
Gov’t Spending: – spent trillions of dollars towards war, taking funds out of health care, education, and other public services; leading to the 2008/09 deficit
Discrimination: – irrational assumptions that all middle-eastern people are terrorists; also tightens security on all foreigners (Indian, Asian, Middle-Eastern, etc) (ex “random boarder checks” & not hiring employees because of their ethnicity) – US letting fewer foreigners in for Post-Secondary Education; Canada and UK receiving more intelligent international students because their US educational pursuits were shot down.
Yes 9/11 was a huge turning point. Yes it was extremely shocking and catastrophic. But the “homeland security” ordeal went too far. Sure you’re protecting the nation, but to go and discriminate others and say “its for the good of the war” is uncalled for, and simply unethical. We may have gotten past the segregation of African-Americans, but we still have racial issues/tensions to deal with. This is not healthy in both society, or the work force.