Question

The issues of ethics faced by production include _____________.

• A. product testing ethics
• B. defective, addictive and inherently dangerous products
• C. ethical problems arising out of new technologies
• D. all of above

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

all of above

This area of business ethics deals with the duties of a company to ensure that their products and production processes do not cause harm to society at large. Some of the more acute dilemmas in this area arise out of the fact that there is usually a degree of danger in any product or its production process and it is difficult to define the degree of permissibility, since the degree of permissibility may depend on the changing state of preventative technologies or changing social perceptions of acceptable risk.

— Defective, addictive and inherently dangerous products and

— Ethical relations between the company and the environment include pollution, environmental ethics and carbon emissions trading.

— Ethical problems arising out of new technologies, for example, genetically modified food.

— Product testing ethics.

The most systematic approach to fostering ethical behavior in business is to build a corporate culture that would link ethical standards and business practices.