International Business Ethics

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...discovered an employee was stealing from the company. The manager followed company policy for such an event: she fired the employee, then notified the police. Imagine the manager's horror when sometime later she learned the employee had been executed. She made decisions based on mandated policy within the company but no one knew the results of turning the thief over to the police. This true story has been related numerous times by Thomas Donaldson, an international ethics expert. It is dramatic horrifying and is intended to convey the fact that ethics differ according to culture. Policies that are formulated in the United States, for instance, are likely to have far different consequences when they are carried out in other nations (Digh, 1997). As companies continue to expand their horizons by becoming multinational corporations, it is essential that Human Resource Directors adopt ethics codes that 'fit' within the host country. If they do not, the results can be both...

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