Ethical Practice: Strong Ethics Integral to Doing Business

There are all sorts of components to running a successful business. You have to have a product or service that others want, a reasonable price that people are willing to pay, and an infrastructure that keeps your business running. If any of these parts break down, the business as a whole will likely not succeed. But what about doing the right thing? Where does ethics fit into the discussion of a successful business? If you’re looking for a commercial printer to provide printing services for your business or a company to provide a hosted Team Foundation Server, should you even care if they’re doing the right thing? After all, if you’re getting the best price, that’s all that should matter, right? While that low price is tempting, it’s not a temptation you should give into.

When you support companies that have questionable ethics, you’re implicitly saying that those ethics are okay. And while you may be the beneficiary in one instance, you may be taken advantage in the next. For this reason it is important both to conduct your business with the proper ethics and not support those who bend their own ethics based on the situation. For instance, if you use a hosted TFS provider, the last thing you want is someone who you can’t count on. You need that server to be up at all times, 24 hours a day. However, if you discover that company is able to offer you such good pricing because they’re cheating on their taxes, is that really someone you want to be doing business with? If they willing to cheat on their taxes, what else are they doing that is unsavory?

All of this goes beyond a pricing plan for a SharePoint TFS or sort of regular maintenance offered on software purchase. When you’re talking ethics, you’re talking about something that transcends business. Ethics is about human beings at their core and how they view the world around them. By acting in an appropriate manner, they are in essence making the world a better place. Everyone profits from that, even if it’s not with the almighty dollar. So the next time you find yourself in a moral dilemma about a particular decision, make the right choice, the choice you can sleep with at night. If you take the easy way out, you’ll regret it in the end.

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