Understanding business ethics

"As the second decade of the new millennium moves forward, businesses around the world continue to address the ethical behavior of their employees. Whether you consider Charles Ponzi in the 1920s, Kenneth Lay in the 1990s, or Bernard Madoff in current times, unethical behavior is as old as commerce itself. Greed is part of human nature, and as long as there are finite amounts of goods of value, some people will try to obtain those items by whatever means possible. In the movie Wall Street, trader Gordon Gekko, portrayed by Michael Douglas, highlights in his "Greed Is Good" speech that there is a fine line between using self-interests to motivate and using those same interests to obtain riches through unethical and greedy actions"--