Business ethics mean many things to many people and for different reasons. Business ethics can be simply defined as moral standards by which people judge behavior (Tenbrunsel, 2008). In business, there are many different people you have to answer to: your customers, your shareholders, your colleagues and your clients. Business ethics are complex and very subjective and what we do when an ethical situation presents itself is what ultimately dictates one’s ethics. We have all heard of the “golden rule”, which is do unto others as you’d have done to you. I think this ultimately defines ethics and how they are very personal and subjective. If you lie, then you should not be upset when you are lied to. In the world of business, employers monitor their employees in different ways and for different reasons and there is no legal boundaries to the monitoring. There are five different ways in which employees are watched for ethics: business ethics, legal compliance, legal liability, performance review, productivity, and security (Reh, 2010). Legal compliance is a term used to ensure that companies and their employees adhere to the regulated guidelines that are set fourth by the industry. An example of this behavior is with customer service representatives. A company chooses to record the conversations that the customer service representative have with customers to protect themselves and their customers. While this does not seem like much, but it shows that a company cares enough to make sure that their representatives conduct themselves ethically with their customers. Legal liability is similar to legal compliance, but is mainly directed to in-house ethics. Companies will monitor employees for legal liabilities such as sexual harassment, hostility, and favoritism. Ultimately this responsibility falls into the hands of the managers. If the company does not monitor these