The role of entrepreneur ethics and social responsibility

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  • Entrepreneur: an individual who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit and increase the growth of the economy
  • Business ethics: the standers and principle used by society to define appropriate and inappropriate conducts in the workplace
  • Social responsibility: an ethical theory in which a business should consider the impact of its actions on society
  • The role of ethics and social responsibility in business:
    1. Promote public confidence in corporate America
    2. Faster business ethic
    3. Encourage socially responsible behavior
    4. Push for diversity in workplace
    5. Enhance reputation and drive profit
  • State some examples of social responsibility:
    1. Reduction carbon footprint
    2. Improving labor policy
    3. Diversity, equity and inclusion
    4. volunteering
    5. charity programs