I have just answered a similar question concerning ethics and here is the answer and the reference that I would like to share with you:
May (2013) demonstrates that challenges exist in organizational communication in ethical decision-making and practice. May deduces that organizational ethics are merely governing the actions of individuals - “organizations do not make decisions, per se, people do” (p. 11). Furthermore, May illustrates that there are challenging ethical questions at the personal, organizational, and societal levels.
Here is the reference of May's book, which should be interesting to your question:
May, S. (2013). Introduction: Ethical perspective and practices. In Case studies organizational studies: Ethical perspectives and practices (pp. 1-33). Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publication Inc.
Can we manage employee's ethics?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_we_manage_employees_ethics [accessed Aug 16, 2017].
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Pharmaceutical marketing: ethical and responsible conduct - EY
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To be socially responsible is when the organization is concerned about people, society and environment with whom and where it conducts business. In it’s most basic form, socially responsible marketing is taking moral actions that encourage a positive impact on all the company’s stakeholders, including employees, community, consumers, and shareholders. The main responsibility of marketers in this aspect is to package and communicate the organization’s decisions that will impact the various communities with which they interact. Consumers have the right and power to decide which companies succeed or fail; so marketers have a major responsibility to ensure their practices are seen as philanthropic without being phony.
In my experience, many companies proclaim to the public a set of ethics to which they rarely subscribe in marketing. Such companies pretend that they care about moral right and wrong, while in reality they care about legal right and wrong--specifically what they can legally get away with saying.