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BUSINESS DUTIES |
Allocating fair wages Providing good working situations Not abusing workers Encouraging healthy competition |
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MORAL REASONING |
Is a process in which ethics issues and problems are benchmarked against moral standards so that moral judgment is made possible. |
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What are the Social Groups in Business Ethics |
Consumers Employees Investors The Local Community |
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PHILOSOPHY |
As a science,it is interested with the meaning of reality, including our human experiences. It seeks to explain the ultimate cause of everything by the use of the human reason alone. |
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RAYMOND C. BAUHMART |
He defines the Ethics of business as the ethics of responsibility. The businessman must promise that he will not harm knowingly. |
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ETHICS |
It is a branch of social science that deals with moral principles and social values. |
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PLATO |
According to him, Good people do not need law to tell them to act justly,while bad people will always find a way around the laws |
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MORAL RESPONSIBILITY |
Accountability for the actions one perform and the consequences they bring about,for which a person could be justly punished or rewarded. |
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ANDREW CRANE |
According to him,Business Ethics is the study of business situations, activities and decisions where issues of right and wrong are addressed. |
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ETHIKOS |
Derived from a Greek word that means arising from habit or character. |
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7 Natures of Business Ethics |
Contains rules and principles Voluntary Avoid cheating and Fraud Education and training required Dynamic concept Social welfare New concept |
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TO PHILOSOPHIZE |
Means to wonder about life,to question reality and find sense in what we do as human beings |
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PHILOS |
From the Greek word which means Love. |
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WILLIAM JAMES |
According to him, Philosophy is a collective name for questions that have not been answered to the satisfaction of the one asking. |
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SOPHIS |
From the Greek word which means Wisdom |
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PLATO |
According to him, Philosophy is the highest form of inquiry |
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TELEOLOGICAL ETHICS (Consequentialist Approach) |
It measures the morality of an action based on its consequences and not in the motive or intention of the actorm |
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SUPER-EGO |
Operates as a moral conscience |
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KOHLBERG'S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT |
It is a theory that focuses on how children develop morality and moral reasoning. It also suggests that moral logic is primarily focused on seeking and maintaining justice. |
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KOHLBERG |
His theory suggests that moral development occurs in a series of six stages. |
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MORALITY |
Is the quality of goodness or badness in the human act. It means conformity to the rules of the right conduct. |
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Ethics as a Normative Science |
Information that is developed,presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular policy choice. |
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DEONTOLOGICAL ETHICS (Non-Consequentialist Approach) |
It measures and evaluates the nature of a moral act based on the validity of the motive of an act. It states that an act that is not morally good can lead to something good. |
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3 Categories of Business Ethics |
Descriptive Ethic Normative Ethics Metaethics |
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ID |
Is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories |
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NORMATIVE ETHICS |
Simply describes how people act and does not prescribe how people should act. |
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EGO |
Is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the ID and superego |
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METAETHICS |
Analyzes the usage of words. It is also a discussion of ethical theories and language. |
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Requirements for a Good Moral Judgment |
✓It must be logical ✓It must be based on facts and solid evidence. ✓It must be based on sound and defensible moral principle. |
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DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS |
Involves moral judgment based on ethical norm or theory. |
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Give the 4 Morality of Profit Motive |
✓ Most people go to business to earn a living. ✓ Some people go to business for personal satisfaction ✓ Other people go to business because they want to serve the society through the goods and services they offer to customers ✓ Other people go to business to make a profit. |
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Give the 4 Good Side of a Profit Motive |
✓ It motivates people to do something meaningful. ✓ It promotes ingenuity and cleverness in running a business. ✓ It makes people productive. It generates potential capital for the business. |
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THE BAD SIDE OF PROFIT MOTIVE |
✓ It promotes rivalry among competitors ✓ It makes people focus only on making money ✓ It turns the businessman from being reflective to a questioning person because he only focuses his attention on the practical activity of making money ✓ It promotes self-interest rather than common good |
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Characteristics of a Good Moral standard |
✓ It is one that looks at the issue as something that is very serious. ✓ It must be grounded on good moral judgment. ✓It should be objective. ✓ A good standard, when violated, brings about feelings of guilt, shame and remorse of conscience. |
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3 Levels of Moral Development |
Level 1-Pre-Conventional (Younger than 6) Level 2-Conventional ( 7-11 yrs old) Level 3- Post-Conventional ( 11 yrs old and on) |