Ethical Conduct and the Profitability of Business Organizations. A Study of a Bottling Company

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 3.67, , language: English, abstract: Business organizations assume ethical business practices only add costs to the organization. However, business ethics actually add value for customers and result in increased profitability and performance for business organizations. One of the objectives is to determine the effects of ethics on an organization's profitability. Data was collected through primary and secondary sources; the primary sources of data are mainly through personal interviews and distribution of questionnaires while the secondary source includes textbooks, Internet articles, journals etc. The methods of statistical analysis include the use of tables, percentage and chi-square for data analysis. The four hypotheses tested and calculated value of x2 (chi -square) was greater than the critical value of x2 at 5% level of significance, therefore reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative. It found out that there are benefits of good corporate ethical conduct. It was concluded that organizational ethics initiates have been supportive of many positive and diverse organizational objectives. It also recommended that there should be an effective ethical conduct on the profitability of business organization.