Stephen M. Byars & Kurt Stanberry, Business Ethics (OpenStax 2018) Read Chapter 1. This chapter provides an overview of what business ethics is and why it matters.
Kacmar, K. M., Carlson, D. S., & Harris, K. J. (2013). Interactive effect of leaders’ influence tactics and ethical leadership on work effort and helping behavior. The Journal of Social Psychology, 153(5), 577–597. This article looks at the impact ethical leadership has on employee work effort.
Young, C. (2019). Putting the Law in Its Place: Business Ethics and the Assumption that Illegal Implies Unethical. Journal of Business Ethics, 160(1), 35–51. This article discusses the differentiation between ethical and illegal behavior.