Introduction to Professional Ethics Assignment

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Introduction to professional ethics

Introduction to professional ethics
Introduction and background
The paper talks about Jaguar land Rover Company. It explains that how the company is
growing and expanding its business activities and operations globally. Further, it tells that how
the firm is implementing ethics programs to reduce and eliminate the environmental impact of its
vehicles in Africa. Along with this, it explains the elements of the ethics.
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is the holding company of Jaguar land rover limited.
It is a British multinational automotive corporation with its headquarter is located in Whitley,
Coventry, United Kingdom. The company is manufacturing and dealing in off-road and luxury
vehicles. Further, it is expanding and flourishing its business activities and operations day by
day. There are approx 37,005 employees are employed in the company. The organization is
making a good image in the market by providing excellent vehicles around the world. Currently,
Jaguar land rover is selling its products under its own name in the global market. The company
has own rights to the Lanchester, Rover marques and dormant Daimler (Clegg, Chandler, Binder,
& Edwards, 2013).
Ethics programs
Ethics programs refer to the organizational policies put in place to enhance and promote
law, rules, and regulations within the organization. These programs should be supported and
promoted by the communication efforts, procedures and cultural attributes. Various types of
ethics programs can be implemented by the company to maintain sustainability and corporate
social responsibility within the organization. Corporate social reasonability is a business
approach and policy which contributes to sustainable development by rendering economic,
environmental and social benefits to the stakeholders around the world. CSR plays an integral
and vital role in Jaguar land Rover Company to expand and explore business activities and
operations globally. CSR plays a significant role in business ethics to maintain a code of
conducts and standards within the organization (Sukitsch, Engert & Baumgartner, 2015).
Social education and awareness program can be implemented by the Jaguar Land Rover
company to maintain business ethics and sustainability within the organization. Further, training
and development and innovation programs can be executed by the firm in the organization to
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create the value of the shareholders in the organization. These programs can be easily
implemented by the company to gain the competitive advantages in the global market. In this
way, the company can increase its sale and revenue in the universal market (Ganescu, 2012).
These programs help to reduce unethical behavior of the workers, top management, and
managers within the organization. The social education and awareness programs help to monitor
and focus on the business standards and laws within the organization. In addition, training and
development and innovation encourage and motivate the employees for improving the corporate
social responsibility. CSR is becoming the part of the organizational culture by implementing
these programs in the organization. These programs also create and develop social community
awareness in the organization. It will also help to meet the long-term goals and objectives of the
Jaguar Land Rover. By implementing these programs, the Jaguar Land Rover can reduce the
environmental impact of its vehicles and it can conduct business activities and operations
successfully (Mitra, 2011).
Ethical analysis of the corporate social responsibility program
There is a close relationship between ethics and corporate social responsibility. CSR is
the part of the business ethics. None of the company can survive its business activities and
operations without effective sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Stakeholders play
a vital role to maintain sustainability and CSR within the organization (Brown-Liburd & Zamora,
2014). There are various stakeholders such as local community, customers, trade unions,
suppliers, directors, managers, and workers. These stakeholders participate in social education
and awareness programs to reduce the environmental impact of the Jaguar Land Rover company
vehicles in the global market (Mason & Simmons, 2014). Further, they participate in training and
development and innovation programs to improve the unethical behavior of the employees in the
market. Along with this, social media and internet also play an essential role in social education
and awareness programs to eliminate the environmental impact of the company vehicles. The
social media also helps to expose and prevent the harmful and dangerous activities of the
organization (Brem & Ivens, 2013).
These programs provide various benefits to the stakeholders in the organization. These
programs help to build and develop the reciprocal relationship between the stakeholders and
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