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Defining ethics
Introduction to ethics
Several ways we can look at ethics
Ethics
Ethics
Approaches to ethics
Five approaches
Utilitarian Approach
Rights Approach
Fairness or Justice Approach
Common Good Approach
Virtue Approach
The
Organizational/Business Ethics
Organizational business ethics is the application
of the morality related choices as influenced
and guided by values, standards, rules,
principles, and strategies associated with
organizational activities and business situations.
Consequences.
Role of leaders
Develop Ethical Behavioral Influences:
Objective
Code of Ethics
Policy Guidelines
Standards of Ethical
Performance
Training
Punishment/Consequences/
Discipline
Peer Reporting
Subjective
Moral Development
Ethical Climate
Culture
Management and
Leadership
Code of ethics
Assumes
Everyone
Risks
Not
Compliance
Features
Establish standards of minimum behavior, usually based on
law
Write detailed standards stating explicit rules
Establish sever penalties for violating the minimum standards
Risks
May give the idea that company wants only minimum
standard of behavior
May imply lower level employees are targeted
Give no guidance for most difficult value choices
Ethics exhortation
Features
Exhort
Risk
No
Managing value
Features
Define
Risks
More
management effort
questionnaire
Interviews with mangers and workers
Literature (annual reports, corporate plans, other
company related publications)
Questions