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INTRODUCTIONThe internet has now for a pretty long time been used globally for communications and trade among other human day to day activities. Due to the technicalities associated with a lack offace to face engagement with businesses, companies and parties on the other side of the internet, ethics has become a major concern. User data among other personal property abuse has become rampant. I am reporting on the ethical standards and actions of some major internet companies that majority of the internet users use from day to day, Hongladarom & Ess (2017). These companies are Google, Dell, Apple and Facebook. This report is a product of a short survey that I conducted about their ethical or code of conduct policies and how strictly they enforce these policies by comparing their policies and their actions, enabling me to draw informed conclusionsabout their actions. Google is the most popular search engine, Dell a major computer manufacturer and sell worldwide, Apple a great computer and mobile phone manufacturer and seller, and Facebook, a social media giant. All these companies have a broad customer and clientbase. This makes their ethics and code of contact matter of concern. WHAT DO PEOPLE THINKA survey conducted among a random sample of 10 people, to give their opinion about how ethical they each of the four companies listed above is gave the following findings. company12345678910averageGoogle8109989109999.0Dell56587465786.1Apple887998798108.3Facebook988910898898.6The table above shows the answers or scores from 10 random individuals. A score of 1 means totally unethical and 10 completely ethical. The last column shows the average score of each company. The first row represents the persons who participated in the survey marked by numbers 1 to 10. The table below on the other hand shows my own initial ethical rating of the companies. Company
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Google9Dell7Apple8Facebook8My own initial rating of the companies puts Google on top of the table at 9 out of a maximum of 10, followed by Facebook and Apple while Dell tails the list with 7. From the survey Google still tops the list as the most ethical while Dell once again closes the list. My own rating is based on the complaints filed by consumers of the companies’ services and products in comparison with the code of ethics outlined by the companies themselves. Google and Facebook in particular had the most comprehensive outlines of codes of ethics covering both employees, customers and affiliates. Most, if not all of the parties involved are therefore covered in their code of conduct policies. The similarities between the initial ethical rating and the survey results may suggest that the conclusions derived from the results are likely to be accurate. ETHICAL/CODE OF CONDUCT POLICIESGoogle code of conduct‘Don’t be evil’ are the three key words that, according to Google, are the cornerstones of their code of conduct. The Google code of conduct is designed to achieve several goals. These include, service to their users, respect between them, their users and other associates, avoiding conflict of interests, preserving confidentiality, protecting Google’s assets, ensuring financial responsibility and integrity and obeying the law, O'Brien & Marakas (2015). To focus on a few of its goals in summary, Google serves its users maintaining high standards by keeping its principles of integrity, usefulness, responsiveness, freedom of expression, privacy and security and taking action immediately any moment the company notices there is a hiccup in its provisionof service. Integrity is supposed to earn the company trust. The products, services and features provided should make the company more useful to all global users. The second part Google’s ethics policy highlights support among employees and the company itself. Google is committed to creating a more than supportive working environment, allowing employees to achieve their full working potential. The workplace is supposed to be fee of intimidation, bias, harassment and unlawful discrimination. The company provides employee handbooks available to all the locations around the world to keep all its employees informed of their rights and responsibilities.
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