Business ethics are an extension of our personal ethics. People take their personal ethics to work with them every day. They perform their job to the standard of their ethics. The effort that is put forth in our workday is a reflection of our ethical commitment. Along with that employers rely on our ethics to make honest, right, and timely decisions.
People go shopping in the marketplace with their standards leading the way.
As consumers, we do not buy shoddy products and are intolerable to poor customer service. We even go, as far as to boycott businesses that does not uphold good ethics. Within this past decade we have become short tempered with industrial environmental neglect. For example, Styrofoam and plastic products that are not biodegradable are not favored in the majority of society. In short, every aspect we do as humans is based upon our ethics.