This proves that business ethics and its awareness is really picking up. .
Another interesting revelation is about trucking firms in the US. In the article "The Value of Values- published in Fleet Owner November 1999, David Cullen admitted that even companies like the trucking companies, which have managed to get so far without social conscience are now faced with the increasingly awareness and demands as regards to ethical practice. He said that in the new millennium, corporations would be operating under many watchful and demanding eyes. As regards to the trucking industry per se they are obliged to act ethically towards 6 sets of stakeholders: owners shareholders investors; employees contractors; customers; suppliers vendors; local community and society in general. It is interesting to know that all these are being stressed and explained in specially conducted programs for people in various fleet industry. .
A survey results to actually illustrate the current level awareness of companies in serving their community was demonstrated in an article written by Jennifer Zaino - "Companies Give Back to their Communities- in the Information Week. In the research survey done recently of 250 IT and business managers regarding business ethics, only 11% say their companies do not have programs to support employee involvement in charitable causes. .
The article entitled "Doing Well by Doing Good- published in The Economist, raised the issue of bribery and corruption. It stated that American Companies have been bounded since 1977 under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It also reveals that now, all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries have agreed to a convention to end bribery. However, many companies turn a blind eye when intermediaries make such payments. Only some companies like Motorola for example have accounting systems to spot kickbacks by noting differences between what the customer pays and what a vendor receives.