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This 10 page paper looks at the way a business may decide its stance of environmental ethics. The paper looks at the issues, considerers the stakeholders and tier values and considers the way objections may arise and be resolved. The bibliography cites 10n sources.
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File: TS14_TEEEthics.rtf
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One area where ethics is an important issue is that of the position of the environment and the way that green policies may be adopted. This could apply to
any organization and concern the way that a single project is being approached or the way that the long term company strategy and approach to corporate governance is being developed.
The commercial world often perceived that the maximizing of profit and protecting the environment are mutually exclusive. Here we will consider a company that is considering adopting environmental or green
policies as part of its approach to corporate governance and considering to what extent these should be adopted. This may include issues such as the way that pollution or waste
is controlled, produced and disposed of, the use of power and energy saving as well as the use of finite resources and damage to the natural environment, such as in
the way buildings are constructed. Opinions differ to the precise meaning of green, no set definition exists, however commonalties include nature conservation, minimization or elimination of pollution and avoiding
the irreversible destruction of aspects of the environment (Chryssides G and Kaler J, 1999, 493). Nevertheless green policies do not necessarily incorporate all or any of these factors, and, in
some cases may purely be a marketing ploy. Chevron probably spent five times the cost of its environmental initiatives on publicity (Dadd and Carothers 1993,483), many of which were legal
requirements. Other companies, such as Body Shop (Bartlett C, 1991), or Ben and Jerrys (Zinkhan and Carlson, 1995), have embraced environmentalism more sincerely approaching it in differing ways. 2. Stakeholder
Analysis There are a large number of stakeholders when it comes to environmental issues. The company and employees along with their suppliers and customers may be the primary stakeholders,
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