What is unethical business practices?? Unethical behavior in business refers to actions that fail to rise to acceptable standards of business practices . As you can see, unethical business practices can creep into every type of business imaginable.We should also raise the bar and hold businesses to a higher standard of conduct. Some of the common unethical business practices done by many businesses all over the world for success are: Misleading Product Information Many companies promote injurious products with misleading information that can be harmful to consumers or the environment, purely for the sake of improving the bottom-line. Maker of Nutella, Ferrero USA, Inc. had to pay $3.05 million as settlement for a lawsuit filed in New York for pitching the chocolate spread as a nutritious breakfast for children. In 2015, the biggest German carmaker, Volkswagen, publicly accepted that it ha...