Introduction: Just ten years ago, many people, businesses, or organizations viewed ethics, social responsibility, and business ethics solely in terms of administrative compliance with legal standards and adherence to internal rules and regulations. Today the situation is different. Attention to these technologies is growing all over the world and many companies or organizations are realizing that to be successful, they must earn the respect and trust of their customers. Like never before, businesses are being asked, encouraged and incentivized to improve their business practices to emphasize legal and ethical behavior. Businesses, professional firms and individuals are increasingly being held accountable for their actions as demand for higher standards of corporate social responsibility increases. This essay will define ethics, social responsibility and show how it happens and how it is important for manager and world business. So “ethics” or “morality”; some distinguish between ethics and morality: ethics is a standard of conduct for a particular group; morality is a more general standard) is one of those words in our language that we use every day but find notoriously difficult to define. Webster's Dictionary defines ethics as “1. the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment; 2. the moral system of a particular person, religion, group, etc...." This definition distinguishes between the study of ethics (otherwise known as moral philosophy) and the subject of this study, namely standards of conduct. (www.ethicsinaction.com, retrieved 06/25/06) In our daily lives, certain words have the same meaning across all social, economic, racial, and spiritual domains. borders. We know a dog or cat that......middle of paper......ability. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. Louis Pojman, 1995. Ethics: Discovering Good and Evil (2nd edition). Belmont, California: Wadsworth. Beauchamp, TL, Bowie, NE (1993), Ethical Theory and Business, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ., .internet source: http://www.bitc.org.ukhttp:// www.business-ethics.com/http://www.ethicsinaction.com/http://www.e-businessethics.com/JOURNAL:DeConinck, JB (1992), "How Sales Managers Control Unprofessional Behavior 'Ethics of the Sales Force', Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 11 No.10, pp.789-98. Jansen, E., Von Glinow, MA (1985), "Ethical atmosphere and the organizational reward system", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 10 No.4, pp.814-22.. (Singhapakdi, A.), "1996", in The Perceived Role of Ethics and Social Responsibility: A Large-Scale Development' (Eds), Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 15 n°11, p..1131-40.