System of Inquiry Paper
PHL 232 – Ethics in Management
Tamara Whatmore
November 28, 2005
System of Inquiry
Respect for ethical principals and the values associated with them are the best guarantee for harmonious and sustainable development for the all the company’s employees. A Code of Ethics is drawn up with a view to respecting every different culture and its applicable to the entire company through out the world. Each of us is responsible for breathing life in to the Code of Ethics in out everyday actions. This paper will explore my companies, sanofi-aventis code of ethics and how these ethics pertain to the consumer.
Being ethical is also not the same as following the law. The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens subscribe. But laws, like feelings, can deviate from what is ethical. Our own pre-Civil War slavery laws and the apartheid laws of present-day South Africa are grotesquely obvious examples of laws that deviate from what is ethical (www.ethics.com).
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most challenging sectors. Human health does not permit any error or approximation. This requirement for scientific and ethical stringency must prevail throughout the company.
Sanofi-aventis (a French company) was developed in the end of 2004, when a faltering Aventis Pharmaceuticals was ripe for a take over and Sanofi Synthelabo was that company. It started out as a peaceful merger but then it got hostel and Sanofi Synthelabo won the battle and by August 2004 the CEO’s of Aventis were on their way out the door and the headquarters was on the way to France from Bridgewater, New Jersey. Combined this pharmaceutical company is the third in the United States and first Intern ...