Deeply ethical: Why your firm might not be as principled as you think

Most of us, you would hope, would like to think that the profits we take home at the end of day were earned in fair practice. Given the choice, we prefer to sleep easy in the knowledge that business decisions have been made ethically, and with a clear conscience. Considering the increasing number of organizations who are now declaring commitment to ethical practice, as well as the time allocated to studying business ethics on academic courses, most of us presume without question that the firm we work for operates by an ethical code of conduct. But it is not as simple as that.