Bedron Code Of Ethics

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Ethics is a key foundation in businesses. Ethics separate a good trustworthy business from a crooked one. Bedron Company is an investment service group that has been providing most top management groups with 50% bonuses, 100% bonuses for both the chief financial officer and chief executive officer,along with being a very successful company as a whole in the past. Bedron’s top management groujp recently learned that a major corporation is interested in acquiring with them. A manager told some employees about the offer, and that they might want to purchase more stocks through Bedron in anticipation for the possible acquisition. We will answer several questions throughout including, if the employees should purchase more stock as suggested, and …show more content…

According to businessdictionary.com a company’s code of ethics is “a written set of guidelines issued by an organization to its workers and management to help them conduct their actions in accordance with its primary values and ethical standards.” Out of all the definitions I found I believe that that one best represented the meaning of the code of ethics. I do not know Bedron’s policy on an employee breaking the code of ethics but according to smallbusiness.chron.com “breaking the code of conduct guarantees a response by the organization—and the consequences may be severe.” It also stated that serious infractions, even if it is the first case, it could end in immediate termination, but other times you might just get a slap on the wrist or some form of consequences. A company’s code of ethics really defines the company as a whole, and too me a company with a strong and a specific code of ethics is a company that I would want to work under. Therefore, no matter the consequences of breaking the code of ethics employees should not buy more stocks in this