Try On The Problem Of Multinational Company Ethics

As a main economy media of economy globalization, multinational company has changed the way of social production and living to a great extent, and it is becoming a holder of world economic artery. China, an opening and economy developing country, is longing for advanced idea of management and science and technology which the multinational company will bring about. As a matter of fact, some multinational companies enhanced the dependence of economy development and the ruin of ecological environment in host country rather than the expected development which the host country has desired for foreign investment, technology, human resource and ecological environment. The thesis applies the philosophic method of theory and practice combination, from concrete to abstract, analyzes in contrast the characteristics, confliction and its cause of multinational company ethics, aims to reconstruct an ethic norms system which can reflect their different economy benefits and values, provides the guide for smooth management of multinational company in theory and practice in order to realize benefits and social benefits for two parts. This thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter one discusses the essence and characteristics of multinational company ethics. Multinational company ethics refers to a theory system of moral essence, characteristics and its norms on multinational company. It combines benefits and ethics of multinational company and host country, and forms basic moral norms to regulate the relationship of multinational company and to direct it's behavior. The essence of multinational company is decided by market economy instead of a simple merging like term which surpasses any economy system and consciousness appearance. Multinational company follows the laws of market economy, so follows the moral requests which market economy own,because the direction of ethics will be lead into an enterprise only by means of market and a certain order. Market not only provides possibilities and condition for the management of multinational company, but also decides the essence of multinational company. Different from enterprise ethics, nation ethics and world ethics, the characteristics of multinational company ethics are: (â… ) multinational company ethics is a special and important part of enterprise ethics which embodies enterprise ethics of original country and host country; (â…¡) multinational company ethics is based on different nation ethics which embodies different nation ethics of original country and host country, and undertakes ethic duty for two parts; (â…¢) multinational company ethics is of the kind of practice, ,implement and relativity, furthermore, it emphasizes on micro ethic values.Chapter two discusses the confliction and its cause of multinational company in China. On moral principle, the collectivism in China is in confliction with individualism in western society; On moral norms, the western are opposite to Chinese who seek for morals but despises benefits. Morals are the most basic direction of values and the highest behavior principles in China, compared with it, the western society emphasizes to gain individual benefits; On moral idea, there is much confliction between the view of happiness , the view of honor and the view of fair. Chinese take the happiness of others or collectives as his own, but the western view of happiness is that others should not damage his own happiness. The honor of Chinese is always in accordance with practicing social duty, but the westerns' is based on wealth and privilege; the employees cannot get the same awards with the same labor on the view of honor. The reason that creates these confliction is as follows: the difference between consciousness appearance, the difference between mode of thinking, the difference between traditional culture, the difference between social interaction and the difference between personnel idea, which all happen between China and western countries. The difference between mode of thinking is the original cause. The conflictio...