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Fourth Session
“Business Ethics Fundamentals” Wednesday 29th February 2012
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• Rules, standards and moral principles regarding what is right and wrong in specific situations.
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• Business Ethics comprises the principles, values, and standards that
guide the behavior in the world of business.
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Principles
Principles are specific and pervasive boundaries for
behavior that are universal and absolute.
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
Two Key Branches of Ethics• Descriptive ethics involves describing,
characterizing and studying morality– “What is”
• 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
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Ethics and the Law• Law often represents an ethical minimum
• Ethics often represents a standard that exceeds the legal minimum
Ethics Law
Frequent Overlap
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Making Ethical Judgments
Behavior or act that has been committed
Prevailing norms of acceptability
Value judgments and perceptions of the observer
compared with
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Four Important Ethical Questions
• What is?
• What ought to be?
• How to 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
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Three Approaches to Management Ethics
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Three Models of Management Morality and Emphasis on CSR
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Making Moral Management Actionable
Important Factors• Senior management
• Ethics training
• Self-analysis
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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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Selected Key Terms
• Amoral management• Business ethics• Ethics• Immoral management• Levels of moral development• Moral management• Morality