Title: (Optional) Identify the benefits of ethical behavior.
Course: Education for Employment - Exploratory (Preparation) (22900-6) > Section: Developing Ethics

Identification should include reasons why ethical standards need to be maintained, including the concepts that

- employment is dependent upon an exchange of services for rewards; ethical standards create an expectation of conduct that enables the exchange to occur
- ethical employees work for ethical businesses that sell or exchange goods and services with consumers
  - unethical employees hurt the business’s ability to maximize profits
  - unethical businesses risk and often diminish consumer opportunities.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do unethical employees hurt a business’s ability to maximize profits?
- Why is it so important for businesses to maintain ethical standards?
- What do unethical businesses risk most?
- Why is a positive work ethic valued by employers?
- Where did you acquire your attitudes and beliefs regarding ethics and behaviors?
- What can you do to develop new attitudes about ethics and behaviors?