Slides Ethics
1 Ethics and business ..................................................................................................... 6
2 Ethical decision making: personal and professional contexts ..................................... 10
3 Philosophical ethics and business .............................................................................. 12
4 The corporate culture – impact and implications ....................................................... 20
Discussion & Highlights Chapter 1 – 4 .............................................................................. 27
5 Corporate social responsibility .................................................................................. 31
6 Ethical decision making: employer responsibilities and employee rights .................... 39
7 Ethical decision making: technology and privacy in the workplace ............................ 47
8 Ethics and marketing ................................................................................................ 55
9 Business and environmental sustainability ................................................................ 62
10 Ethical decision making: corporate governance, accounting and finance ............... 69
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,Table of Contents
1 Ethics and business ..................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Chapter objectives ........................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Business ethics ................................................................................................................ 6
1.2.1 Levels of ethical decision making .................................................................................................. 6
1.2.2 Goals of business ethics................................................................................................................. 6
1.2.3 Making the case for business ethics .............................................................................................. 6
1.3 Ethics and the law............................................................................................................ 7
1.4 Business ethics as ethical decision making ....................................................................... 7
1.5 Business ethics as personal integrity and social responsibility .......................................... 7
1.5.1 How should we live? ...................................................................................................................... 8
1.5.2 Social-scientific approach or normative approach ........................................................................ 8
1.5.3 Norms ............................................................................................................................................ 8
1.6 Distinction between values and ethics ............................................................................. 8
1.7 Ethics as practical reason ................................................................................................. 9
2 Ethical decision making: personal and professional contexts ..................................... 10
2.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................10
2.2 A decision-making process for ethics ..............................................................................10
2.3 When ethical decision making fails .................................................................................11
2.4 Ethical decision making in managerial roles ....................................................................11
3 Philosophical ethics and business .............................................................................. 12
3.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................12
3.2 Philosophical ethics and business ...................................................................................12
3.2.1 Ethical framework ....................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.2 Utlitarianism ................................................................................................................................ 13
3.2.3 Principle-based framework ......................................................................................................... 14
3.2.4 Virtue ethics ................................................................................................................................ 15
3.3 Decision-making model for business ethics revisited ......................................................16
3.4 Human rights ..................................................................................................................17
3.4.1 Baseline for business and human rights ...................................................................................... 17
3.4.2 Ruggie framework ....................................................................................................................... 17
3.4.3 Unanimous approval of the framework at UN ............................................................................ 18
3.4.4 Foundations principles and operational principles ..................................................................... 18
3.4.5 The state duty to protect............................................................................................................. 18
3.4.6 The corporate responsibility to respect ...................................................................................... 18
3.4.7 Access to effective remedy.......................................................................................................... 19
4 The corporate culture – impact and implications ....................................................... 20
4.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................20
4.2 Ethics and corporate culture ...........................................................................................20
4.2.1 What is corporate culture ........................................................................................................... 20
4.2.2 Culture and ethics........................................................................................................................ 22
4.2.3 Compliance and values-based cultures ....................................................................................... 22
4.2.4 Ethical leadership and corporate culture .................................................................................... 23
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, 4.2.5 Building a values-based corporate culture .................................................................................. 23
4.3 Culture integration .........................................................................................................24
4.3.1 Assessing and monitoring the corporate culture ........................................................................ 25
4.4 Mandating and enforcing culture ....................................................................................25
4.4.1 Sources of culture ........................................................................................................................ 26
4.4.2 Specific Acts of An Organization That Can Serve As Due Diligence ............................................. 26
Discussion & Highlights Chapter 1 – 4 .............................................................................. 27
4.5 Importance .....................................................................................................................27
4.6 Public institutions (video slide 4) ....................................................................................27
4.7 Integrity .........................................................................................................................27
4.8 Issues of right and wrong ................................................................................................27
4.9 Three Western ethical theories .......................................................................................28
4.9.1 Utilitarianism ............................................................................................................................... 28
4.9.2 Deontology .................................................................................................................................. 28
4.9.3 Virtue ethics ................................................................................................................................ 28
4.10 Ethical leadership ........................................................................................................28
4.10.1 Two models of leadership ........................................................................................................... 28
4.11 Definitions ..................................................................................................................29
4.12 Globalisation: ethics and the law ................................................................................29
4.12.2 Key components .......................................................................................................................... 30
5 Corporate social responsibility .................................................................................. 31
5.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................31
5.2 Introduction on corporate social responsibility ...............................................................31
5.2.1 Ethics and social responsibility .................................................................................................... 31
5.2.2 Economic model of CSR ............................................................................................................... 32
5.2.3 Stakeholder model of CSR ........................................................................................................... 33
5.2.4 Integrative model of CSR ............................................................................................................. 33
5.3 Exploring enlightened self-interest .................................................................................34
5.4 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................34
5.5 CSR and stakeholder management .................................................................................35
5.5.1 Planet boundaries........................................................................................................................ 35
5.5.2 Stakeholder theory ...................................................................................................................... 35
5.5.3 The stakeholder framework ........................................................................................................ 36
6 Ethical decision making: employer responsibilities and employee rights .................... 39
6.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................39
6.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................39
6.3 Ethical issues in the workplace: the current environment ...............................................39
6.3.1 Defining the employment relationship........................................................................................ 40
6.4 Due process and just cause .............................................................................................40
6.4.1 Exceptions to the doctrine of employment at will ...................................................................... 40
6.5 Downsizing .....................................................................................................................41
6.6 Health and safety ...........................................................................................................41
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, 6.6.1 Challenges to the acceptable risk approach to health and safety ............................................... 42
6.6.2 Health and safety as market controlled ...................................................................................... 42
6.6.3 Health and safety as government-regulated ethics .................................................................... 43
6.7 Rights and responsibilities in conflict ..............................................................................43
6.8 The global workforce and global challenges ....................................................................43
6.8.1 The case of child labor ................................................................................................................. 44
6.8.2 Discrimination ............................................................................................................................. 44
6.8.3 Diversity ....................................................................................................................................... 45
6.8.4 Affirmative action ........................................................................................................................ 45
7 Ethical decision making: technology and privacy in the workplace ............................ 47
7.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................47
7.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................47
7.3 The right to privacy .........................................................................................................47
7.3.1 Defining privacy ........................................................................................................................... 47
7.3.2 Ethical sources of a right to privacy ............................................................................................. 47
7.3.3 Global applications ...................................................................................................................... 49
7.4 Linking Privacy to the Ethical Use of Technology .............................................................50
7.4.1 Information and privacy .............................................................................................................. 50
7.5 Managing employees through monitoring ......................................................................50
7.5.1 Why do firms monitor technology usage? .................................................................................. 51
7.5.2 Monitoring employees through drug testing .............................................................................. 52
7.6 Other forms of monitoring..............................................................................................52
7.7 Business reasons to limit monitoring ..............................................................................52
7.7.1 Balancing interests ...................................................................................................................... 53
7.7.2 Parameters for a monitoring policy ............................................................................................. 53
7.7.3 Regulation of off-work acts ......................................................................................................... 53
7.8 Privacy rights since September 11, 2001 .........................................................................54
8 Ethics and marketing ................................................................................................ 55
8.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................55
8.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................55
8.3 Ethical issues in marketing: a framework ........................................................................55
8.4 Responsibility for products: safety and liability...............................................................57
8.4.1 Contractual standards for product safety ................................................................................... 57
8.4.2 Tort standards for product safety ............................................................................................... 57
8.4.3 Strict product liability .................................................................................................................. 58
8.5 Ethical debates on product liability .................................................................................58
8.5.1 The incentive argument............................................................................................................... 58
8.5.2 The financial burden argument ................................................................................................... 58
8.6 Responsibility for products: advertising and sales ...........................................................58
8.6.1 Ethical issues in advertising ......................................................................................................... 59
8.6.2 Marketing ethics and consumer autonomy ................................................................................ 59
8.7 Marketing to vulnerable populations ..............................................................................60
8.8 Supply chain responsibility .............................................................................................61
9 Business and environmental sustainability ................................................................ 62
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1 Ethics and business ..................................................................................................... 6
2 Ethical decision making: personal and professional contexts ..................................... 10
3 Philosophical ethics and business .............................................................................. 12
4 The corporate culture – impact and implications ....................................................... 20
Discussion & Highlights Chapter 1 – 4 .............................................................................. 27
5 Corporate social responsibility .................................................................................. 31
6 Ethical decision making: employer responsibilities and employee rights .................... 39
7 Ethical decision making: technology and privacy in the workplace ............................ 47
8 Ethics and marketing ................................................................................................ 55
9 Business and environmental sustainability ................................................................ 62
10 Ethical decision making: corporate governance, accounting and finance ............... 69
1
,Table of Contents
1 Ethics and business ..................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Chapter objectives ........................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Business ethics ................................................................................................................ 6
1.2.1 Levels of ethical decision making .................................................................................................. 6
1.2.2 Goals of business ethics................................................................................................................. 6
1.2.3 Making the case for business ethics .............................................................................................. 6
1.3 Ethics and the law............................................................................................................ 7
1.4 Business ethics as ethical decision making ....................................................................... 7
1.5 Business ethics as personal integrity and social responsibility .......................................... 7
1.5.1 How should we live? ...................................................................................................................... 8
1.5.2 Social-scientific approach or normative approach ........................................................................ 8
1.5.3 Norms ............................................................................................................................................ 8
1.6 Distinction between values and ethics ............................................................................. 8
1.7 Ethics as practical reason ................................................................................................. 9
2 Ethical decision making: personal and professional contexts ..................................... 10
2.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................10
2.2 A decision-making process for ethics ..............................................................................10
2.3 When ethical decision making fails .................................................................................11
2.4 Ethical decision making in managerial roles ....................................................................11
3 Philosophical ethics and business .............................................................................. 12
3.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................12
3.2 Philosophical ethics and business ...................................................................................12
3.2.1 Ethical framework ....................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.2 Utlitarianism ................................................................................................................................ 13
3.2.3 Principle-based framework ......................................................................................................... 14
3.2.4 Virtue ethics ................................................................................................................................ 15
3.3 Decision-making model for business ethics revisited ......................................................16
3.4 Human rights ..................................................................................................................17
3.4.1 Baseline for business and human rights ...................................................................................... 17
3.4.2 Ruggie framework ....................................................................................................................... 17
3.4.3 Unanimous approval of the framework at UN ............................................................................ 18
3.4.4 Foundations principles and operational principles ..................................................................... 18
3.4.5 The state duty to protect............................................................................................................. 18
3.4.6 The corporate responsibility to respect ...................................................................................... 18
3.4.7 Access to effective remedy.......................................................................................................... 19
4 The corporate culture – impact and implications ....................................................... 20
4.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................20
4.2 Ethics and corporate culture ...........................................................................................20
4.2.1 What is corporate culture ........................................................................................................... 20
4.2.2 Culture and ethics........................................................................................................................ 22
4.2.3 Compliance and values-based cultures ....................................................................................... 22
4.2.4 Ethical leadership and corporate culture .................................................................................... 23
2
, 4.2.5 Building a values-based corporate culture .................................................................................. 23
4.3 Culture integration .........................................................................................................24
4.3.1 Assessing and monitoring the corporate culture ........................................................................ 25
4.4 Mandating and enforcing culture ....................................................................................25
4.4.1 Sources of culture ........................................................................................................................ 26
4.4.2 Specific Acts of An Organization That Can Serve As Due Diligence ............................................. 26
Discussion & Highlights Chapter 1 – 4 .............................................................................. 27
4.5 Importance .....................................................................................................................27
4.6 Public institutions (video slide 4) ....................................................................................27
4.7 Integrity .........................................................................................................................27
4.8 Issues of right and wrong ................................................................................................27
4.9 Three Western ethical theories .......................................................................................28
4.9.1 Utilitarianism ............................................................................................................................... 28
4.9.2 Deontology .................................................................................................................................. 28
4.9.3 Virtue ethics ................................................................................................................................ 28
4.10 Ethical leadership ........................................................................................................28
4.10.1 Two models of leadership ........................................................................................................... 28
4.11 Definitions ..................................................................................................................29
4.12 Globalisation: ethics and the law ................................................................................29
4.12.2 Key components .......................................................................................................................... 30
5 Corporate social responsibility .................................................................................. 31
5.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................31
5.2 Introduction on corporate social responsibility ...............................................................31
5.2.1 Ethics and social responsibility .................................................................................................... 31
5.2.2 Economic model of CSR ............................................................................................................... 32
5.2.3 Stakeholder model of CSR ........................................................................................................... 33
5.2.4 Integrative model of CSR ............................................................................................................. 33
5.3 Exploring enlightened self-interest .................................................................................34
5.4 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................34
5.5 CSR and stakeholder management .................................................................................35
5.5.1 Planet boundaries........................................................................................................................ 35
5.5.2 Stakeholder theory ...................................................................................................................... 35
5.5.3 The stakeholder framework ........................................................................................................ 36
6 Ethical decision making: employer responsibilities and employee rights .................... 39
6.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................39
6.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................39
6.3 Ethical issues in the workplace: the current environment ...............................................39
6.3.1 Defining the employment relationship........................................................................................ 40
6.4 Due process and just cause .............................................................................................40
6.4.1 Exceptions to the doctrine of employment at will ...................................................................... 40
6.5 Downsizing .....................................................................................................................41
6.6 Health and safety ...........................................................................................................41
3
, 6.6.1 Challenges to the acceptable risk approach to health and safety ............................................... 42
6.6.2 Health and safety as market controlled ...................................................................................... 42
6.6.3 Health and safety as government-regulated ethics .................................................................... 43
6.7 Rights and responsibilities in conflict ..............................................................................43
6.8 The global workforce and global challenges ....................................................................43
6.8.1 The case of child labor ................................................................................................................. 44
6.8.2 Discrimination ............................................................................................................................. 44
6.8.3 Diversity ....................................................................................................................................... 45
6.8.4 Affirmative action ........................................................................................................................ 45
7 Ethical decision making: technology and privacy in the workplace ............................ 47
7.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................47
7.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................47
7.3 The right to privacy .........................................................................................................47
7.3.1 Defining privacy ........................................................................................................................... 47
7.3.2 Ethical sources of a right to privacy ............................................................................................. 47
7.3.3 Global applications ...................................................................................................................... 49
7.4 Linking Privacy to the Ethical Use of Technology .............................................................50
7.4.1 Information and privacy .............................................................................................................. 50
7.5 Managing employees through monitoring ......................................................................50
7.5.1 Why do firms monitor technology usage? .................................................................................. 51
7.5.2 Monitoring employees through drug testing .............................................................................. 52
7.6 Other forms of monitoring..............................................................................................52
7.7 Business reasons to limit monitoring ..............................................................................52
7.7.1 Balancing interests ...................................................................................................................... 53
7.7.2 Parameters for a monitoring policy ............................................................................................. 53
7.7.3 Regulation of off-work acts ......................................................................................................... 53
7.8 Privacy rights since September 11, 2001 .........................................................................54
8 Ethics and marketing ................................................................................................ 55
8.1 Chapter objectives ..........................................................................................................55
8.2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................55
8.3 Ethical issues in marketing: a framework ........................................................................55
8.4 Responsibility for products: safety and liability...............................................................57
8.4.1 Contractual standards for product safety ................................................................................... 57
8.4.2 Tort standards for product safety ............................................................................................... 57
8.4.3 Strict product liability .................................................................................................................. 58
8.5 Ethical debates on product liability .................................................................................58
8.5.1 The incentive argument............................................................................................................... 58
8.5.2 The financial burden argument ................................................................................................... 58
8.6 Responsibility for products: advertising and sales ...........................................................58
8.6.1 Ethical issues in advertising ......................................................................................................... 59
8.6.2 Marketing ethics and consumer autonomy ................................................................................ 59
8.7 Marketing to vulnerable populations ..............................................................................60
8.8 Supply chain responsibility .............................................................................................61
9 Business and environmental sustainability ................................................................ 62
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