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Chapter Outline
Business Ethics and Public OpinionWhat Does Business Ethics Mean?Ethics, Economics and Law: Venn ModelFour Important Ethics Questions
Three Models of Management EthicsMaking Moral Management ActionableDeveloping Moral JudgmentElements of Moral JudgmentSummary
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Introduction
Business EthicsPublic’s interest in business ethics increased during the last four decadesPublic’s interest in business ethics spurred by the media
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Introduction
Inventory of Ethical Issues in Business
Employee-Employer RelationsEmployer-Employee RelationsCompany-Customer RelationsCompany-Shareholder RelationsCompany-Community/Public Interest
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Public’s Opinion of Business Ethics
Gallup Poll finds that only 17 percent to 20 percent of the public thought the business ethics of executives to be very high or high To understand public sentiment towards business ethics, ask three questions
Has business ethics really deteriorated?Are the media reporting ethical problems more frequently and vigorously?Are practices that once were socially acceptable no longer socially acceptable?
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
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Ethical Problem
Ethical Problem
Society’s Expectations of Business Ethics
Actual Business Ethics
1950s Early 2000sTime
Business Ethics:Today vs. Earlier Period
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Business Ethics: What Does It Really Mean?
DefinitionsEthics involves a discipline that examines good or bad practices within the context of a moral dutyMoral conduct is behavior that is right or wrongBusiness 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 EthicsDescriptive 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 minimumEthics 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 ManagementIntentional - does not consider ethical factorsUnintentional - casual or careless about ethical considerations in business
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Making Moral Management Actionable
Important FactorsSenior managementEthics trainingSelf-analysis
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Developing Moral Judgment
External Sources of a Manager’s Values
Religious valuesPhilosophical valuesCultural valuesLegal valuesProfessional values
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Developing Moral Judgment
Internal Sources of a Manager’s Values
Respect for the authority structureLoyaltyConformityPerformanceResults
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Elements of Moral Judgment
Moral imaginationMoral identification and orderingMoral evaluationTolerance of moral disagreement and ambiguityIntegration of managerial and moral competenceA sense of moral obligation
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Elements of Moral Judgment
Amoral Managers Moral Managers
Moral ImaginationMoral IdentificationMoral EvaluationTolerance of Moral Disagreement and AmbiguityIntegration of Managerial and Moral CompetenceA Senses of Moral Obligation
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Selected Key Terms
Amoral managementBusiness ethicsCompliance strategyConventional approach to business ethicsDescriptive ethicsEthical relativism EthicsFeminist EthicsImmoral management
Integrity strategyIntentional amoral managementKohlberg’s levels of moral developmentMoral developmentMoral managementNormative ethicsUnintentional amoral management