Internet Sources
The study of the topic of ethics is made more enjoyable if we venture out from the text book and rove the internet for relevant sources. The links and sites given below should be used to heighten your knowledge and help you to research more effectively for the final assignment report and presentation.
University Sites
De Paul University Ethics web resource
http://condor.depaul.edu/ethics/ethg1.html
An excellent site on ethics run by the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, and through surfing the site you will find the page for the on-line Journal of Ethics.
Business Ethics Resources on WWW - University of British Columbia
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/business/
Business Ethics Resource at BOLA
http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/%7Ejarvis/bola/ethics/index.html
Ethics and Business - Web Links BOLA
http://sol.brunel.ac.uk/%7Ejarvis/bola/ethics/eweb.html
BOLA is an excellent British site on ethics with lectures downloads and case studies. BOLA stands for Business Open Learning Association. This is particularly useful for material on the theoretical underpinning to the study of ethics.
Other interesting Sites
An excellent resource for business students in general. Lots of company data and some ethical content.
A massive site linked to many partner organisations operating in the charity and non governmental sector. Excellent links to organisations and reports on world trade, child labour etc.
http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/gs/
Home Page for GenetiXSnowball a direct action group against GM farming. Its subsidiary site at http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/gs/links.htm gives the reader a list of key sites for information on this topic.
PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a direct action group working for animal rights. This is the master site for the group. http://www.meatstinks.com/This URL is a representative site to give the reader a flavour of a campaign run under the PETA banner.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/campaign/clothes/clocodh.htm
Oxfam's site that is running a campaign on clothes and labels and manufacturing issues regarding UK high street companies and third world suppliers. It has links with other sites offering similar information. Also see the Childrens Rights camapaign at the Human Rights Watch site at http://www.hrw.org
A site that will allow access to Benetton images used in their advertising. Surf the site to find the image gallery. You will also be able to download the images place the mouse pointer on the image, then by clicking your right mouse button and following the menu options you can capture the image by saving the gif file to your disk. The site also gives you the thoughts of the artist who made the images and the issues he/she was trying to articulate.
An excellent site for information. Download the Body Shops ethical trading policy and also the ethics report now available.
The excellent Shell site with pages of data on Shell's principles, mission statement, downloads available of topics of interest to students doing an MBA course. See the report on bribery for example. Also pages of archive material on the Brent Spar case.
The Pensions Investment Research Council has an excellent site on governance issues as well as pages on Shell in Nigeria.
http://www.strategy.company.org.uk
My home page for students studying strategic management and related topics.
General:
To use the Web as a resource, go into
a search engine like Yahoo or Alta Vista and type in business ethics.
You will find a wealth of material to help your research. The American
University sites are particularly helpful. Other phrases like child
labour, or ethical trading, sweat shops and whistle blowing etc.
would yield information for any research you may be doing.