Make contact with a sales manager, ask him / her about their ethical selling practices and report your findings. You may want to ask if the firm has:

a. a code of ethics in place

b. an ethics committee

c. a policy on giving and receiving gifts

d. procedures for dealing with whistle-blowing

Answer: A code of ethics in place.

Explanation: If I were to interview a sales manager of a firm about their ethical selling, the first question I would ask would be if they have any existing code of ethics.

Code of ethics simply are values and morals that an organization place highly for its members to abide by or follow.

Code of ethics could of the form: no stealing, sincerity, integrity.

Then I would go on to ask if the sales firm has an ethics committee. The ethics committee is normally in charge of monitoring the ethics compliance of workers.

Then the policy on gifts would be checked. As gifts given or received in some cases can act as bribes to bend situations to an individual's favor.

And finally I would check the steps the sales firms use to deal with whistle blowing. Whistle blowing simply is the exposure of some wrong practice by an individual. So I would ask the sales manager how exposed wrong ethical practices are handled.