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The three ages of business ethics.

The text explains about the ages through which the business ethics that begins with the industrial one has gone, continues with the post-industrial and ends with informational, evolution that the sectors have had to achieve growth and changes that have been fostered in our personal and professional life.

It raises the change that is necessary for our society and thus achieve social transformation.

Key Points:

• Seventies governed by business ethics or business ethics.

• Business ethics is a human group that carries out a valuable task for society, such as producing goods and services, obtaining benefits.

• Organizations are moral agents, who are free to build character.

• Ethics is to make decisions that cultivate predispositions by taking them as habit or habit. It has more scope than the right. It incorporates the character of people and organizations with habits that lead to fair and good decisions.

• Knowing their customs and habits is more important than knowing the laws.

• Virtuous circle reigns habits that benefit society.

• Virtues are habits to choose good, vices are to choose evil.

• The good habits in the company constitute a good in themselves and are the ones that best play in the market.

• In the industrial age it was believed that the economy was the activity capable of generating greater freedom and therefore happiness.

• Protestantism promoted capitalism and not Catholicism as is believed.

• The basis of economic activity is consumption.

• In the postindustrial age, business ethics arises, with the need to create social capital and trust networks. They appreciate more its cultural dimension and understand as an organization the human group that carries out a project.

• Competitiveness is that it maintains its viability and remains in the market.

• Excellent companies have an organization endowed with culture and constitute an identity.

• Excellent companies generate three types of capital: physical (tools that facilitate production), human (human resource) and social (changes in relationships between people).

• The informational age is to deepen the logic of the pursuit of benefits, intensifying the productivity of work and get state support to increase productivity.

• Integrity and transparency is a public good in economic, political and social life.