Ethical Analysis of Google

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How ethical is Major Internet Company-Google?

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Contents
How ethical is Major Internet Company-Google?.....................................................................1
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
What do people think?...............................................................................................................2
Code of conduct policies............................................................................................................3
Serving the users.....................................................................................................................3
Support Each other.................................................................................................................4
Avoid conflict of interest........................................................................................................4
Ethical behaviour.......................................................................................................................4
Australian tax.............................................................................................................................5
Summary....................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Business ethics and behaviour are the elements of business which brings significant benefits
to the business and its employees. Ethical practices attract the employees and the investors as
a result the company’s share price remains high. (Brenkert, 2012).
Google is a multinational company which deals with technology related services and
products. The products comprises of cloud computing, online advertising technologies,
software and hardware (Google, 2017). The main objective of the company is to sort the
information in a way that it get accessible to everyone. The company focuses on developing
its proprietary algorithms in order to maximize effectiveness. According to the Ethisphere
institute, Google has been rewarded as the most ethical company. The winner’s list points out
that, Google is the only company which is in the Computer Service category. The culture of
the company, its working environment, substantial practices, and its code of conduct all gets
adds to the ethical standards of the company (Hernandez, 2015).
The report contains details of the ethical standards and actions which are followed by Google.
It also includes the code of conduct policies, ethical behaviour and tax payment policy. Along
with this, a short survey is conducted to analyse what people think about the ethical standards
of the company.
What do people think?
A survey on “How ethical do you think Google is?” was conducted. As seen from the given
diagram only 1 out of 18 thinks that Google is completely unethical while 3 out of 18 thinks
that Google is completely ethical.