Business Ethics
Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices
Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices Since Sep 11, 2001
The incident of 9/11 made the world pass though many sad and undesirable changes. One of such changes is declining rate of ethical considerations in U.S. based commercial organization. The subject is important to explore as it is likely to affect the image of U.S. business organizations. Furthermore, it is also expected that U.S. literature upon management and business administration may fail to appeal the world as the practices are not aligned with it.
The paper explains the changes in lieu of unfortunate incident of 9/11 in USA and casts light upon the implication of ethical consideration presently enforced in U.S. based organizations.
Changes in U.S. Business Ethics Practices Since Sep 11, 2001
The incident of 9/11 was an unfortunate event for many nations of the worlds including Americans. The incident changed the political situation of the whole world and shattered the old established relationships among the nations. The U.S. economy was badly affected by the event which spread its unfavorable impact to many other economics of the world as well.
The changes occurred at political and economic platforms were evident by all the nations of the world. However, these are not the only changes to ponder upon. There were many other changes which were not noticed by any nation other than Americans themselves. To be more precise, these changes were experienced by the people living in USA. The communities associated with the groups considered responsible for 9/11attack were seriously affected by these changes. It will be no prejudice to mention that after 9/11, the image of USA at international platform was seriously damaged. It may still be considered as the most powerful country of the world, governing the international system of politics and economics, yet it is also true that behind the official representatives, the masses and citizens of many countries do not like USA and its policies. It is also a fact that many Americans are not happy with the policies of USA. They may not raise the voice and it may turn in no good favor for the affected people and nations, yet the feelings of contempt are there and bound to increase with every new policy and initiative.
The paper will cast light upon the changes which took place in business ethics practices of U.S. particularly after the incident of 9/11. The changes will be highlighted using various models. The analysis of the issue from the perspective of many researchers will help the reader understand the dimensions and aspects of the changes. The objective of the paper is to present a summed version of changes in ethical practices and their likely impact upon their stakeholders.
Literature Review
The incident of 9/11 is considered as one of the most historic incidents that took place in the beginning of new millennium. On September 11, 2001, two aircraft hit the World Trade Center (WTC) of USA located in New York. An aircraft also damaged Pentagon in Washington. The incident resulted in massive destruction in these two cities and thousands of people lost their lives.
There are many views about this sad incident. The most prevailing view is that the Muslim extremist group, Al Qaeda hijacked American Aircraft for this brutal attack. The activity was carefully planned and the main objective was to hit U.S. And its economy. Soon after collapse of WTC, the value of American Dollar decreased dramatically in the currency market. U.S. considered it as a terrorist attack and took serious initiatives to combat it. Serious counterattacks were planned against Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda. The revenge of U.S. was not over till the complete wipe out action of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. The situation there is still upset even after 12 years of the incident (Bergen, 2011).
There is another view about this attack which negates the mentioned view altogether. After the event, every TV channel of the world casted the breaking news and many opinions came forward. One of the views was; the event of 9/11 was planned by Americans themselves (Denzin, 2009). The objective was to penetrate in Afghanistan. The supporters of this view find the evidence in the fact that at 9/11; only Muslims were present at World Trade Center. All non-Muslims belonging to any religion, Christianity, Jewish or other were on leave. The analysts do not consider it a blessing in disguise that U.S. citizens were saved. They rather focus that the leave applications from all the non-Muslims for that particular day was a planned activity to kill Muslims. There were more than 3000 casualties, including the fire fighters, the security guards and people in nearby buildings...
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