Preparing for a Professional Career: Ethics of Marks and Spencer

Preparing for a
Professional Career

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Defining of issues.......................................................................................................................1
Code of conducts that assists in resolving issues....................................................................2
Discussion of support as well as guidance which are available from relevant professional
companies...................................................................................................................................2
Assessment of impact of support as well as code of conduct that could have on issue.......3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
Continuous Professional Development plan...........................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Ethics has become a main consideration for carrying out young individuals in terms of their
selection of work as well as career. Companies that could work on building as well as
maintaining their ethical workplace cultures which are more financially successful as well as
having more motivated in terms of having productive employees (Reimers, F.M. and Chung,
2021). This report is based on preparing for a professional career in terms of ethics of marks and
Spencer which is the retail company the distance selling out home products, food products as
well as clothing. This report includes introduction of ethical issues, explanation of code of
conduct which assist in solving issues, discussion of support as well as guidance that are
available from professional companies, assessment of impact that support as well as code of
conduct have on issues along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Defining of issues.
Corporate social responsibility basically covers a wide spectrum of challenges that could be
taken into account for carrying out a business conduct. It generally consists of working
conditions, rights of individuals, environment, protection from corruption, gender inequality as
well as corporate governance. As this CSR issue of ethics in business basically refers to having
issues that could be arise and faced by company in terms of maintaining their position in terms of
societal values (Gromoll, 2021). As corporate social responsibility issues carry code of conduct
which could create a positive as well as negative impact in canning of business practices. in
terms of marks and Spencer positive as well as negative impact that could be carried out from
CSR issues are as follows:
 Positive impact: As it helps in increasing sales as well as customer loyalty towards
company by carrying out operational cost for carrying out better financial performance in
terms of retaining employees.
 Negative impact: As it creates a negative impact on relation with employee’s growth
along with creating of labour flexibility that could affect performance in carrying out
business practices (Pretti and McRae, 2021).
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