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1.1
The Nature of Business Ethics
Ethic : the principle of conduct governing an individual or a
group.
Personal Ethics , Accounting Ethics
Morality : the standards that an individual or a group has
about what is right and wrong or good and evil.
Moral standards include the norms we have about the kinds
of actions we believe are morally right and wrong, as well as
the values we place on what we believe is morally good or
morally bad.
Moral norms can be express as general rules about our
action ,such as always tell the truth.
Moral values can be express with statement about objects or
features of objects that have worth , such as honesty is
good.
Nonmoral Standard include the standards by which we
judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a nonmoral
way.
Six Characters of moral standards :
- Involve serious wrongs or significant benefits
- Shoul be preferred to othe values including selfinterest
- Not established by authorityfigures
- Felt to be universal
- Based on impartial considerations
- Associated with special emotions and vocabulary
Ethics : the discipline that examines ones moral standards or
the moral standards of a society to evaluate their reasonableness
and their implications for ones life.
Study morality :
a. Normative study : an investigation that tries to reach
normative conclusions about what things are good or
bad or about what action are right or wrong.
b. Descriptive Study : an investigation that attempts to
describe or explain the world without reaching any
conclusions about whether the world is as it should be.
Business Ethics
= a specialized study of moral right and wrong that
concentrates on moral standards as the apply to business
institutions, organizations, and behavior.
Kind of Ethical Issues :
1.4
Moral Responsibility and Blame
A person is morally responsible for an injury only if :
- Person caused of helped cause the injury, or failed to
prevent it when he could and should have
- Person did so knowing what he was doing
- Person did so of his own free will