Business ethics notes pdf 1st year

Firms display business ethics in several ways.
Ethics are broadly described in the literature as moral principles about right and wrong, honourable behaviour reflecting values, or standards of conduct.
Honesty, openness, responsiveness, accountability, due diligence, and fairness are core ethical principles.

Business Ethics has five units in BBA 1st Year and the detailed syllabus for BBA Business Ethics is given below:

When we trace the origin of business ethics we start with a period where profit maximization was seen as the only purpose of existence for a business.
There was no consideration whatsoever for non-economic values, be it the people who worked with organizations or the society that allowed the business to flourish.