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BUSINESS DUTIES

Allocating fair wages


Providing good working situations


Not abusing workers


Encouraging healthy competition

MORAL REASONING

Is a process in which ethics issues and problems are benchmarked against moral standards so that moral judgment is made possible.

What are the Social Groups in Business Ethics

Consumers


Employees


Investors


The Local Community

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.

RAYMOND C. BAUHMART

He defines the Ethics of business as the ethics of responsibility. The businessman must promise that he will not harm knowingly.

ETHICS

It is a branch of social science that deals with moral principles and social values.

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

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

Accountability for the actions one perform and the consequences they bring about,for which a person could be justly punished or rewarded.

ANDREW CRANE

According to him,Business Ethics is the study of business situations, activities and decisions where issues of right and wrong are addressed.

ETHIKOS

Derived from a Greek word that means arising from habit or character.

7 Natures of Business Ethics

Contains rules and principles


Voluntary


Avoid cheating and Fraud


Education and training required


Dynamic concept


Social welfare


New concept

TO PHILOSOPHIZE

Means to wonder about life,to question reality and find sense in what we do as human beings

PHILOS

From the Greek word which means Love.

WILLIAM JAMES

According to him, Philosophy is a collective name for questions that have not been answered to the satisfaction of the one asking.

SOPHIS

From the Greek word which means Wisdom

PLATO

According to him, Philosophy is the highest form of inquiry

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

SUPER-EGO

Operates as a moral conscience

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.

KOHLBERG

His theory suggests that moral development occurs in a series of six stages.

MORALITY

Is the quality of goodness or badness in the human act. It means conformity to the rules of the right conduct.

Ethics as a Normative Science

Information that is developed,presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular policy choice.

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.

3 Categories of Business Ethics

Descriptive Ethic


Normative Ethics


Metaethics

ID

Is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories

NORMATIVE ETHICS

Simply describes how people act and does not prescribe how people should act.

EGO

Is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the ID and superego

METAETHICS

Analyzes the usage of words. It is also a discussion of ethical theories and language.

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.

DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS

Involves moral judgment based on ethical norm or theory.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)