Six Categories Of Rationalization Of Business Ethics

Ethics is a very complicated matter because it is very diverse. It can come from many forms like religious belief and culture. This is evident in the guidelines that prompt our everyday lives like the rules that we might follow at church, at home, or in our day to day lives. It can also be heavily ruled by personal experiences. The many environmental and social factors can influence a person to believe the way they do. It can be something as simple as how someone was brought up but can differ greatly from person to person. Essentially, one person’s wrong can be one person’s right. Nevertheless, the goal of ethics and morality is to create a universal mutual understanding of right and wrong, therefore it is crucial to try to understand it. …show more content…
Secondly, be able to then decide a path to take based upon ethics. This is to rid ourselves of the self-serving bias and instead let ourselves be seen by others as objective as well as by ourselves. This can be evident in the code of conduct and ethics from our employers by comparing out ethics to those of our employers. Thirdly they must want to make a decision that is in fact ethical. The six categories of rationalization which we would like to ignore because they distract from our decision making are denial of responsibility, injury, victim, social weighting, appeal to higher loyalties, and metaphor of the ledger; by appealing to these categories of rationalization we can lose focus of our end goal. Lastly they must be able to have both the courage and the motivation to act based on the information they’ve accumulated. Moral action itself is composed of ownership, efficiency, and …show more content…
In order to create trust one party is willing to be vulnerable to another party with the expectation that they will get something in return in the future. In business, it can be extremely difficult to repair trust that has to do with integrity than one of competence. With competence you have the ability to learn from your mistakes. In order to repair your trust due to competence business or people have to apologize then make another promise for future commitment. Sometimes with issues of competence you have the ability to right yourself. With issues of integrity, it can be even more complicating than that. It makes business or companies you questions your values and future commitments. They may even question if you have values at all. Businesses want to maintain their reputation and will be less likely to make business with others that won’t adhere to their own