Business Computer Information Systems

Abstract

In this chapter 1, we will look at how the world around us has changed very dramatically in the last two decades In the year 2000, General Electric, Cisco Systems, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Citigroup were among the highest valued public corporations by market capitalization on the planet. Oil and gas, retail, networking hardware, healthcare, computers, and banking were represented in this group with market caps in the 250-480 Billion US Dollar range. Ethics consists of the standards of behavior to which we hold ourselves in our personal and professional lives. It establishes the levels of honesty, empathy, and trustworthiness and other virtues by which we hope to identify our personal behavior and our public reputation. In our personal lives, our ethics sets norms for the ways in which we interact with family and friends. In our professional lives, ethics guides our interactions with customers, clients, colleagues, employees, and shareholders affected by our business practices.