Introduction In this paper the ethical issues within the business world is shown by the movie Fun with Dick and Jane. There are some issues throughout the movie the can be argued that they are for the greater good but remain unethical. There are also issues that are clearly unethical and benefit no one except one person who caused the issue. A few of the issues involved theft, embezzlement, fraud, lying, bribery, and corporate insider trading. Summary The movie Fun with Dick and Jane is based around white collar crimes committed by large businesses. These businesses had money problems but showed profit on their accounts in order to get other companies to buy into them and then have the highest managerial officers take off with the money. In …show more content…
another ethics issue involving McCallister and Frank Bascombe was when they had Dick promoted and then have him take the fall for them on national television this was unethical because it made an employee who was otherwise a very competent man turn into a scapegoat for the misdeeds of the executive officers and tarnished his reputation within the job market. The next ethics issue involving McCallister and Frank Bascombe was the bribery of Frank by Jack to keep quiet about the falsification or the balance sheets in exchange for 10million dollars. There are two sides to this unethical issue the first being that fact that Jack is doing everything to cover all the possibilities of being caught. Then next part of was that fact that Frank took the bribe knowing that he was hurting all of those people and doing it for his own personal