Unethical Practices at Amazon

BUSINESS ETHICS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
Explain wrong conduct with suitable reasons and two appropriate SDGs targets......................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss various factors that contribute to the unethical practice at different level of
organisation along with ethical theory and model of moral disengagement...............................5
TASK3.............................................................................................................................................8
Explain stakeholder attributions of power, legitimacy and urgency along with the reason of
unethical management.................................................................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
Give necessary suggestions to avoid unethical practices of company .......................................9
CONCLUSION: ............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Management ethics is a function that is related to social responsibilities of a business
entity. It is an application that indicate wrong, right, good and bad activities within organization.
Moral duty and obligations, responsibilities of managers towards stakeholder of business also a
part of Ethics. It is a wide concept that also affect the legal structure of company. Management
ethics comprises ample of principles, believes, moral obligations that need to be apply within
organization in order to avoid conflict & disputes (Acadia, 2016). The present report is about
ethical practices of Amazon. It is a multinational company that concentrates on e-commerce
business, digital facilities and artificial intelligencies. Amazon has its headquarter in US and was
founded in the year of 1994 by Jeff Bezos. The report focuses on ethical approaches of
management that is followed by company during crisis . Further it includes Sustainable
development goals of entity with appropriate targets. Three level model along with ethical
theories and model of moral disengagement have been also discussed in the report. In addition, it
enlighten on stakeholders analysis of organization with appropriate tools. At the end necessary
suggestions are given for the further improvements. Moreover, it renders an overall prospective
regarding management ethics within business entity in an efficient manner.
TASK1
Explain wrong conduct with suitable reasons and two appropriate SDGs targets
Sustainable development goals:
It refers to a framework that comprise 17 goals that are interrelated to each other. This
tool is formulated to for the overall economic development. It is apply by all members of United
Nations in 2015 with the aim of remove poverty and facilitate prosperity of citizens of various
countries. It moreover includes all dimensions of development such as social, economic,
environment and so on (Cai, Li and Tang, 2020). The main focus of this framework is to
improve economic conditions of country and eradicate various problems such as poverty,
unemployment, inequality and many more. It is being used worldwide for the development of
different nations. All the goals are interrelated with each other and change in any one area will
also affect others. Thus, it is essential to maintain an effective balance between various
dimensions of growth. For this, it is essential to be creative, innovative, adopt new and evolve
techniques to achieve these goals of sustainability development. Countries ned to make efficient

utilization of available financial, technical and human resources in order to attain predefined
objectives. It will play a vital role in overall development of country and help them to sustain.
This approach has been adopted to provide a bright and sustainable future to people. Thus,it
focuses on various global challenges such as climate change, inequality, environmental
degradation and so on ( Howe, 2019). In case of Amazon, it is essential for company to give part
in development of country. So, it has determine some goals to ensure sustainability for a longer
period of time. AS it is an multinational company and significantly affect the economic activities
of nation thus it is vital for business entity to ensure growth and development of nation. Mangers
of company have been aligned their work with predefined goals in an efficient manner. Two
important objectives of sustainability for company are mentioned below:
Decent work and economic growth: it is essential for a country to maintain equality and
efficient work practices. Countries impose different taxes such as direct and indirect taxes on
citizen in order to receive appropriate amount for development and growth. It helps to develop
infrastructure and provide better services to citizens in order to enhance their standards of living.
So, it is the responsibility of companies to pay necessary tax fro their income to government. It is
analysed that Amazon it is doing tax aversion, they are not paying appropriate tax. Amazon is
getting huge tax incentives in order to provide job opportunities and undertake necessary
activities for the overall economic development. There is no improvements in economy as well
as job conditions has been witnessed after that. It avoids various taxes such as federal, sales tax
and so on (Krause, 2018). Apart from that, it is also monitored that there is high pressure on
employees to meet with the extremely high targets. Company is not paying justified salary to
ware house workers . Thus they are not able to meet with the sustainable goal of decent work and
economic growth in an efficient manner. Although it is an e-commerce giant and play a vital role
in overall economic development but the practices of tax aversion is creating constraint in
growth and sustainability.
Peace Justice and strong institution: It is a crucial sustainable development goal that
states that there should be peace, justice within organization. For this, all the employees are
working in company need to be satisfied within work practices, rules and regulations. Although,
Amazon has strong presence at market place and it contributes a huge part in economic
development. On the another side it has also allegation of exploitation of employees. Managers
of company often do mass recruitment in peak time and then fire workers even without a notice.