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Business Ethics Fundamentals
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Ethical Dilemma
Ethics
Law
grey area
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Asking Key Questions
1. What are my core values and beliefs?2. What are the core values and beliefs of my
organization?3. Whose values, beliefs and interests may be at
risk in this decision, and Why?4. Who will be harmed or helped by my decision
or the decision of the organization?5. How will I, and my organization be affected by
the decision?
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Why use Ethical reasoning in business?
1. Many times laws do not cover all aspects or “grey areas” of a problem– EXAMPLES
2. Free-market and regulated-market mechanisms do not inform owners/ managers how to respond to far reaching ethical consequences.– EXAMPLES
3. Many complex moral problems require an “intuitive/ learned understanding of fairness, justice to the community.– EXAMPLES
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Inventory of Ethical Issues in Business
• Employer-Employee Relations• Company-Customer Relations• Company-Shareholder Relations• Company-Community/Public Interest
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?E
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Society’s Expectations of Business Ethics
Actual Business Ethics
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Business Ethics:Today vs. Earlier Period
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
Definitions• Ethics involves a discipline that examines good
or bad practices within the context of a moral duty
• Moral conduct is behavior that is right or wrong
• Business ethics include practices and behaviors that are good or bad
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
Two Key Branches of Ethics• Descriptive ethics – How people behave and what sort of moral
standards they claim to follow. “What is” true and factual.
• Normative ethics involves supplying and justifying moral systems– “What should be”
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Conventional Approach to Business Ethics
• Conventional approach to business ethics involves a comparison of a decision or practice to prevailing societal norms– Pitfall: ethical relativism
Decision or Practice Prevailing Norms
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Sources of Ethical Norms
Fellow Workers
Family
Friends
The Law
Regions of Country
Profession
Employer
Society at Large
Fellow Workers
Religious Beliefs
The Individual
Conscience
Ethics, Economics, and Law
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Four Important Ethical Questions
• What is?• What ought to be?• How do we get from what is to what ought to
be?• What is our motivation for acting ethically?
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3 Models of Management Ethics
1. Immoral Management—A style devoid of ethical principles and active opposition to what is ethical.
2. Moral Management—Conforms to high standards of ethical behavior.
3. Amoral Management– Intentional - does not consider ethical factors– Unintentional - casual or careless about ethical
considerations in business
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3 Models of Management Ethics
Three Types Of Management Ethics
Three Approaches to Management Ethics
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Moral Management Models and Acceptable Stakeholder Thinking
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Developing Moral Judgment
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Developing Moral Judgment
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Developing Moral Judgment
External Sources of a Manager’s Values
• Religious values• Philosophical values• Cultural values• Legal values• Professional values
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Developing Moral Judgment
Internal Sources of a Manager’s Values• Respect for the authority structure• Loyalty• Conformity• Performance• Results
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Elements of Moral Judgment
• Moral imagination• Moral identification and ordering• Moral evaluation• Tolerance of moral disagreement and
ambiguity• Integration of managerial and moral
competence• A sense of moral obligation