Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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country that is developed, and they may be legal in a different way than a country that is less developed. This allows an international company to set up their own division develop in the country in order for them to take advantage of the legal,and yet unethical, employment practices.
In order for the international business ethics to have strength or to enforce beyond the companies' decisions to obey the ethical standards, there should be a kind of legal agency that will investigate and prosecute any ethical employment breached standards. In the United Nations, they have an organization that may qualify, and the International Labour Organization will not have the force of strength to be behind them to ensure that the unethical practices of …show more content…

It was discovered by several American companies within the international deals for businesses. The American companies often bribed the foreign officials so that they could gain illegitimately business from other foreign governments. These practices were outlawed in America since the inception of the Government. These companies were bribing foreign nations, but they were not violating the laws in America. The FCPA made all of this illegal for the companies in America to be bribed by foreign officials. The flaws of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is to not to enforce the ethics of international businesses in any way. Only the companies that are operating in America are subject to the …show more content…

Bribery is considered a practice that is difficult to deal with when it concerns international business ethics. There seems to be several different views pertaining to bribery. There are some of the cultures that don’t believe bribery is an issue and they don’t see why the law seek prosecution. There are some cultures that view bribery as something that is expected, and is considered a common courtesy or gesture as a polite standard. There are other cultures has different views also. They view the activities of tipping or leaving gratuities as an unacceptable bribery. Bribery is most difficult way to deal with, due to countries not having statutes that ban bribery of the government officials. There are some countries, where bribery of the government officials in business dealings could be illegal and highly unethical, and the other countries that bribe government officials would be accepted. When navigating the mass of cultural landmines there is major difficulty of all kinds of dealings that also focus on business ethics that are

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