STANDARDS, ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Shahla Seifi and David Crowther
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Shahla Seifi: De Montfort University, UK
David Crowther: De Montfort University, UK

No 42-43, Social Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainable Business from Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Abstract: By the start of spring 2013 when nature manifests its beauty freely to the world and the hidden seeds show off from the soil, Saudi Arabia requires some communication tools such as skype, whatsup and wiber to reveal any communication inside this country to the government authorities otherwise they won’t be able to provide more service in Saudi Arabia. The UK government want to achieve the same end but are facing stronger and more vociferous guardians of individual freedom. What is right and what is ethical? Should we get the example of spring and be transparent in everything even our private communication and therefore obey the principles of social responsibility including transparency. Or instead should we pay respect to personal rights for keeping their private conversations confidential. What is the limit of transparency. Is Saudi Arabia seeking social responsibility in urging these companies to reveal the personal conversations? Are the manufacturing companies seeking ethical norms when they claim that transparency conflicts to their competing abilities? TQM respects confidentiality as a rule of productive group work and ISO 26000 talks about transparency as a rule of being socially responsible. Who is right and who is wrong? There are standards already existing in the world in different levels of national and international about social responsibility but when an issue like this happen it might occur to your mind that what is really the role of these standards and are they really of any importance to the governments. Is Saudi Arabia obeying international norms to impose skype to reveal the personal communication? If not then what is the use of formulating standards? Who should care for the governance of ethics internationally? These are difficult questions which cannot be answered satisfactorily until they are recognised and addressed. In this paper we make a start on doing so.

Date: 2013-09
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