Ethics in Marketing

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It decribes about the sensitive topic of ethics in marketing.

ETHICS IN MARKETING

THE APPLE
• Inadequate Regulations
– No laws… Satyam?

• Ineffective Enforcements
– Lethargic Officials

• No fear of Punishment
– I will go scot free

• Corrupt Environment
– Every one does it ? Why not me?

• Competition
– Pressure to move ahead

NO INCENTIVE FOR ETHICS
• People in News
– Varun Gandhi – Ramalinga Raju – Janardhana Reddy – Match Fixers – Drug Abusers ENTIRE WORLD IS UNETHICAL

ETHICS – WHEN

• People are ethical all the time except when the rubber meets the road.
– Fallen Heroes
• Arjuna • Dharmaraja • Krishna

ETHICS FOR WHOM
• Judging self through heart and others through head.
– Reel Life Heroes
• Ican sing around trees , my sister cant • I can become a don but others cant

ETHICAL / LEGAL FRAMEOWRK
Ethical Unethical

Legal

LAW PLUS

Chappel brothers & WSC final

Illegal

Draconic Laws I wont pay taxes

Taking / Giving Bribes

WORD OF BUSINESS
• The objective of business
– Make Profits – Create Customers – Destroy Competition – Provide Employment – Provide Benefits to Society

HOW?????????

HOW?????
• By Compliance
– Lower Level Management

• By Cognition
– Middle & Senior Level Management

• By Conscience
– Corporate Level

MARKETING
• Most Accused
– Marketing and Ethics can not exist together – Shrewd Marketing means conning people – To be in sales, one should have sold his/her soul to the devil – What it takes ?
• • • • Finance : Brains IT : Wizardry HR: Compassion Marketing : Stealth

REASONS
• From Market of One to Many
Industrial Revolution

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur
Capital ism Spirit of Enterpr ise

Entrepreneur Entrepreneur Entrepreneur Entrepreneur Entrepreneur

Mass Prod Eco of Scale

Surplus

MARKETING
• Pressure to Sell in a Competitive Environment • Human Needs are Limitless • Need Creation
– – – – Humans as Animals Humans as Social Animals Humans as Irrational Animals Humans as Greedy Animals

I WILL USE YOUR GREED TO SATISFY MINE

MODERN MARKETING ACHEIVEMENTS
• Products
– Convenience to Necessity

• Values
– Peripheral to Core

• Life
– Content to Wanting

• Greed is Good
– Yeh Dil Mange More

THE CONTEXT

STAKEHOLDER – 4Ps – ETHICAL ISSUES
Customer Dealer
Bundling Dumping

Competitor
MS – IBM Lotus

Society
Patent Rights

Product

Cigarette for Women

Price Promotion
Tooth Paste Ads/Dentist

Govt bidding

Collusion commitment

Skimming

Comp Ads

Mazaa Virgin Mobile

Place

Territory Poaching

LAST WORD

ANY LOGIC, HOWEVER SOUND, IF NOT ETHICAL IS NOTHING BUT PROSTITUTION OF WORDS.



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