Ethical Dilemmas In Business Ethics: The Nature Of Doing Business

In the business industry, there are ethical dilemmas that occur on a daily basis. Some ethical dilemma can include stealing or even having fraudulent documents in order to get an unfair advantage within the organization. Another ethical dilemma that has been brought into the light is bribery. What makes bribery unique is that in various parts of the world, bribery has become an acceptable behavior whereas other parts of the world people would consider that as unethical behavior. In order to understand what is acceptable or not when trying to bribe public officials, we must understand the principles of what is considered to be ethical or unethical.
Ethical pertains to how an individual can deal with the moral principles as to what is considered to be right and wrong in their everyday actions. What makes ethical behavior unique in that it is not a universal standard nor is it a global standard. So as a result, some people would agree that bribery is perfectly fine and it is the nature of doing
As a result, the bribery practices will be adaptive to the culture of that respective country. For some countries that active bribery would be similar to tipping a public official. It can be a gesture of saying thank you however, for countries like the United States is against the law to give a gift of monetary value when the individual was acting in their official duties. Another example of cultural differences for bribery practices is a technique known to some country as grease payments. Grease payments “are payments made specifically to increase the speed at which an official might perform a duty which he was already bound to perform.” (Davis, 2004). These are typical payments that some country deemed acceptable in order for the public official to speed up the task that they are bound by the official