Enron Ethical Essay

the entire organization, to our potential stockholders, to all of our current stock holders, to the government, and to the newspaper reporters so that we will in fact continue to make lots of money without actually doing it just inflating the market.Integrity just gets thrown out the window of their thirty five story mansion atop which they sit on a thrown, untouchable by human law.

They have one of the top accounting firms in the world “taking care” of the books so that no one asks questions for which I’m sure they were supremely compensated. There are lobbyists out all over spreading the word of glorious things to come in the future with the corporations sales and revenue projections.In the report it examines the exact numbers of different facets of the companies revenues from different markets and suggest that there will be increasing market exploration with which plenty of money and growth is to be had. This is an agonizing contradiction to the companies policy in that they only treat others as they wish to be treated.

Nonsense. If the companies top ranking officials who claim to be good honest people who only seek to help their communities in which they serve how could they possibly be lying to everyone and blowing up numbers to meet or exceed analysts projections.In the middle of a corporation on the verge of bankruptcy lies top executives selling off all their shares of the company at the peak possible price. This is indicative of a corporation whose moral and ethical obligation to the public and to its employees has gone away from the moral code and south for the long haul.

Its not long before they announce publicly that they are going to file bankruptcy and stock prices plummet and fingers start getting pointed.It is part of the company policy that they have an obligation to communicate yet there is none in the days preceding the announcement except to the chosen few.

This is not the kind of action you would expect from a company whose dedicated to conducting business in accordance to all applicable local and international laws and regulations including those of the U. S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In conclusion all the contradictions of the corporation’s rules and ethics policies seem arrogant in retrospect with regards to the memo.I think it could be that the leaders of the company thought that with all the money they donated to special interest groups that they would be protected from any wrong doing.

Someone in the corporation was mistaken as to the loyalty of people to companies over people and money. Corporate responsibility is to the people they serve and not to their checkbooks although the Enron situation seems to contradict. “It is better to trust people and be disappointed once in a while than to trust no one and be miserable all the time” Abraham Lincoln.