# The Equalitines' Group Resource

## Ethics

Ethics examines the principles and moral problems that arise in a business environment.

Many professional organisations implement a code of ethics in order to ensure every member abides by professional or ethical conduct.

The main issues they tend to cover include a range of things such as protecting intellectual property, cultural awareness, respecting the rights of other people and eliminating discriminative behaviour.

While many of these issues are protected by various laws, legal requirements are often seen as an insufficient mechanism to make firms morally accountable.

For example, the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) mentions societal contributions and introduced accessibility requirements years before legal statute was discussed in similar significant detail.

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