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Lesson 13 - Discussion

Lesson 13 - Discussion

Q Suppose you are doing business in a country where paying fees (bribes) to get through the process more quickly is standard practice. In the United States, bribery is against the law. How will you deal with this conflict taking into account your ethical standards when you’re doing business in that country?

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I will ensure that there can be least use of bribes while trying to conduct business in such a country. This is because there can be times when some money might have to be given to governmental officials of that country as gift. This money might not be meant to be a bribe but a gift for assisting my organization to run my business successfully without being harassed too much by the legal authorities. Though bribery in the United States is against the law, there can be emergency situations in this country. These emergency situations can get developed when the authorities of the government of this country can purposely try to put my company into legal trouble.