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This 14 page paper considers ethics in business and specifically in the airline industry. The paper is written in four parts. The first part examines the reasons why any business may adopt a distinct ethical position. The second part looks at the ethical pressures and issues that are present in the airline industry including Qantas. The third part looks at the role of environmental ethics and how Qantas responded to. The last part considers other ethical issues, looking at human rights and labour issues and the actions and inactions of Qantas. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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position. The reasons behind the positions can be mixed, they may be due to the ethical beliefs of the business owners or founders, they may also be seen as a
tool to gain a competitive advantage by way of differentiation. These two approached are not automatically diametrically opposed, but the motivations behind them are very different. To consider the
approaches we first need to define what is meant by ethics. The dictionary defines ethics as "A set of principles of right conduct" and "A theory or a system of
moral values" (Dictionary.com, 2006). The difficulty is that this is a subjective judgment on what is right or wring in how businesses should behave and even within this framework there
are different perspectives such as Kant and Mills. In terms of business, whatever framework is adopted, the ethical approach may be seen as doing what is right however that
is determined. Companies tend to take one of two approaches. There may be the development of a business from an ethical perspective, companies that have developed in this view are
those such as Ben and Jerrys and Seventh Generation. These are companies which were develop in order to make a profit, but a founding principle was that of the desire
to do it is an ethical way, this may have included environmental concerns to reduce pollution or may include wider issues such as employee and contractor conditions. In the early
days both of these companies look at the environment and human factors and the motivation was to make a profit, but not by incurring unacceptable human or environmental costs and
with the desire to be seen as fair. However, these ideals are often lost when the companies mature, have to compete with
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