unethical

Examples of unethical in the following topics:

• The Ethics of Persuasion

  • Persuasion is unethical if it is for personal gain at the expense of others, or for personal gain without the knowledge of the audience.
  • Furthermore, some methods of persuasion are wholly written off as unethical.
  • Barring any of the persuasive methods that are easily distinguished as unethical (such as torture), the line between ethical and unethical is less clearly demarcated.
  • Ethical persuasion has a series of common characteristics that are missing in unethical persuasion.
  • Al Capone, an American gangster in the early 20th century, used coercion as a persuasive technique, which is unethical.

• Ethical Usage

  • An unethical use of ethos by a job candidate would be when one "pads" their résumé with experiences and honors that may not actually have happened or been achieved.
  • However, when building a persuasive case using ethos, it may be tempting to stray into territory that borders on the unethical.
  • While it might be tempting to beef up your list of achievements by stretching the truth: naming yourself a college club president as opposed to member, listing an award you may have nominated for but not having won (without clarifying that fact) - these are all unethical ways of padding your résumé, and thus, unethically using ethos to persuade your potential employer to hire you for the job.
  • It is unethical to lie to your audience about who you are and what you bring to the table in terms of experience, credibility and authority.
  • It is equally unethical to even bend the truth on the slightest detail about what makes you a credible or authoratative speaker on your given subject.

• Corporate Policies

  • The 2012 Barclays LIBOR price fixing scandal is an example of grossly unethical behavior that occurred after Barclays admitted that its traders sought to intentionally manipulate LIBOR rates for financial gain.
  • Many companies are assessing the environmental factors that can lead employees to engage in unethical conduct.
  • A competitive business environment may call for unethical behavior.
  • An example of this is the issues surrounding the unethical actions of the Saloman Brothers .

• Ethical Usage

  • When you make emotional appeals avoid unethical tactics, such as exploitative manipulation.
  • However, this may be unethical because you are not allowing your listeners to logically consider your argument and rationally determine how they would react to your argument in absence of an emotional appeal.
  • This emotional appeal may persuade audience members to vote for you or your candidate, but it may also be unethical or considered manipulative if the audience members do not have a chance to rationally process the message before the vote takes place.

• Blurring Ethical Lines

  • In other words, if the result of an action is good, then it is okay if the action itself is unethical.
  • In many cases of ethical breaches in organizations, those who acted unethically likely believed that they wouldn't be discovered.
  • A business may operate in a country that permits actions that would be considered unethical under that business's ethical code.
  • How will employees working in that country handle that situation, especially if something that could be considered unethical in one place is actually thought to be important to business success in the other?
  • A company might consider the gift an unethical bribe in exchange for a customer's business, yet it may be essential to enter a new market.

• Short-term gains, long-term pain

  • Other companies have had fines and/or experienced drops in sales for similar unethical or illegal behaviours.

• Dynamically Crafting your Message

  • Suppose you learn that your employer is engaged in an action you consider to be unethical.
  • But that means you could spend years before addressing a practice you regard as unethical.
  • Ignoring an unethical act would be seen as unethical in itself.

• Legislation Protecting against Discrimination

  • Discrimination—treating specific groups of people unequally—is unethical behavior and is prohibited by several pieces of U.S. legislation.

• Fairness

  • Treating employees equitably enables substantial organizational benefits while avoiding unethical operations and the corresponding consequences.

• Business Ethics in B2B

  • Since business clients have more meticulous and specification-driven buying processes, and the company must ensure that needs are met at all times without taking actions that would be considered unethical.
  • Examples of unethical market exclusion or selective marketing are past industry attitudes to the gay, ethnic minority and obese ("plus-size") markets.