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The Nature of Ethics Ethics – The inner-guiding moral principles, values, and beliefs that people use to analyze or interpret a situation and then decide what is the “right” or appropriate way to behave |
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The Nature of Ethics Ethical Dilemma – quandary people find themselves in when they have to decide if they should act in a way that might help another person even though doing so might go against their own self-interest |
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Ethics and the Law Neither laws nor ethics are fixed principles
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Stakeholders and Ethics Stakeholders – The people and groups that supply a company with its productive resources and have a claim on its resources |
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Stockholders Want to ensure that managers are behaving ethically and not risking investors’ capital by engaging in actions that could hurt the company’s reputation
Want to maximize their return on investment |
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Managers Responsible for using a company’s financial capital and human resources to increase its performance
Have the right to expect a good return or reward by investing their human capital to improve a company’s performance
Frequently juggle multiple interests |
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Employees Companies can act ethically toward employees by creating an occupational structure that fairly and equitably rewards employees for their contributions |
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Suppliers and Distributors Suppliers expect to be paid fairly and promptly for their inputs
Distributors expect to receive quality products at agreed-upon prices |
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Customers Most critical stakeholder
Company must work to increase efficiency and effectiveness in order to create loyal customers and attract new ones |
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Ethical Decision Models Utilitarian Rule
Decision that produces the greatest good for the greatest number
How do you measure the benefits and harms that will be done to each stakeholder group?
How do you evaluate the rights and importance of each group? |
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Ethical Decision Models Moral Rights rule
Decision that best maintains and protects the fundamental or inalienable rights and privileges of the people affected by it
Justice rule
Decision that distributes benefits and harms among people and groups in a fair, equitable, or impartial way |
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Ethical Decision Models Practical rule
- Decision that a manager has no hesitation about communicating to people outside the company because the typical person would think it is acceptable |
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Practical Decision Model Does my decision fall within the acceptable standards that apply in business today?
Am I willing to see the decision communicated to all people and groups affected by it?
Would the people with whom I have a significant personal relationship approve of the decision?
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Why should managers behave ethically? The relentless pursuit of self-interest can lead to a collective disaster when one or more people start to profit from being unethical because this encourages other people to act in the same way |
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Trust and Reputation Trust – person’s confidence and faith in another person’s goodwill Reputation – esteem or high repute that individuals or organizations gain when they behave ethically |
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Societal Ethics Standards that govern how members of a society should deal with one another in matters involving issues such as fairness, justice, poverty, and the rights of the individual
People behave ethically because they have internalized certain values, beliefs, and norms |
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Occupational Ethics Standards that govern how members of a profession, trade, or craft should conduct themselves when performing work-related activities
Medical & legal ethics |
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Individual Ethics Personal standards and values that determine how people view their responsibilities to other people and groups
How they should act in situations when their own self-interests are at stake |
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Organizational Ethics Guiding practices and beliefs through which a particular company and its managers view their responsibility toward their stakeholders
Top managers play a crucial role in determining a company’s ethics |
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Social Responsibility Way a company views its duty or obligation to make decisions that protect, enhance, and promote the welfare and well-being of stakeholders and society as a whole |
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Approaches to Social Responsibility |
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Role of Organizational Culture Ethical values and norms help organizational members:
Resist self-interested action
Realize they are part of something bigger than themselves |
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Ethics Ombudsman Manager responsible for communicating and teaching ethical standards to all employees and monitoring their conformity to those standards |
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