Importance of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Uber

Reflective Essay

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Corporate social responsibility....................................................................................................4
PART 2............................................................................................................................................6
PART 3............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCE................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Business ethics is the appropriate business study off policies and practises regarding to
the potentially controversial subjects that include the inside trading, corporate governance,
workplace discrimination and other responsibilities like corporate social responsibilities.
This report will cover study of Uber company Which is American technology based company
and they are providing services like food delivery, ride hailing, curriers, transportation’s and
many more others.
This report will discuss on the business ethics and it's important for Uber to be successful in
their business. this report will discuss about the ethical issues Uber had in the past years and it
will also provide discussion on the ethical issue handling by company. this report will explain the
corporate social responsibility of the company. it will also apply descriptive an normative
business theories that are related to the ethics and it will relate with case scenario. in the end of
this report will analyse how ethical practises affect the companies internal and external
stakeholders.
PART 1
Introduction
Business ethics Are important for every organisation to be successful in their business. company
should always work ethically so they can provide valuable services to their customers, strong
workforce and also create good image outside the world (Ferrell, and et.al., 2019). Uber is one
of them who are operating their business all over the world and it is necessary for the company to
perform ethically to be successful Andaya big form they have to perform ethical practises so
their business can have good imagine worldwide. This study will discuss on the unethical and
ethical practises done by the Uber.
Ethical issue company had
Uber is continuously doing unethical practises the regular basis and where there are many cases
where they have perform unethical practises like speed jumps Very Uber drivers were going
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against the rules by the government The driver was driving the car in more speed. in the year
2017 10 car accident. Some of the case laws On the leader of Uber Company Related to the
harassment and criminal probes. One of Uber employee Susain also Come forward and tell her
problem related to the harassment she is facing. this company has also alleged to use the
software called greyball that is illegal and it is used to avoid regulator in geographic regions
where it was operating illegally by Uber. Due to m privacy reason Where was also banned in
London UK. it was revealed that around 57 million user in a danger due to the Uber because
there data was hacked. Due to the undertaker behaviour by the organisation United States share
of company also fall down from 84% to 74% last year. Uber once had a valuation of around $68
billion. According to the Japanese banking firm SoftBank Meanwhile brought a stake in the
company valuing it at $48 billion.
Ethical issues handled by company
According to the about discussion an ethical practise is run by theUber company are affecting
their business value in this society and creating negative image and the business world (Sroka,
and Szántó, ., 2018). It is necessary for the companies leaders to take necessary steps to solve the
issues and some of these steps also should be taken by the leaders to solve the issue. It is
necessary for their workplace to be effective where they have to provide employees ride and they
should implement policies related to the discrimination. discrimination problem is faced by the
company employees and it is affecting the morale of other employees as well. similarly other
steps like companies should performance CSR activities to create a good image again within the
market. They should give their contribution to the society so they can improve their image again.
Corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility refers to the policies and practises undertaken by the company
that are indeed to have a positive influence to the world and society. the key idea behind
corporate social responsibility for organisations too but pursue pro social objectives, In addition
to maximise their profits. One of the first benefit stakeholders like employees get the rights from
the company if they are getting the equality rights within the company then they will give their
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