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Goodgov Module 1
Goodgov Module 1
AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
MODULE 1
I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF
BUSINESS ETHICS
BUSINESS ETHICS IS APPLIED ETHICS.
NONMORAL STANDARDS:
1. Familial
2. Economic
3. Legal
4. Political
5. Educational
MOST INFLUENTIAL INSTITUTION: Economic
1. Production of the goods and services the
members of society want and need.
1. Moral standards
2. How moral standards apply to social systems and
organizations that produce and distribute goods and
services.
KINDS OF ETHICAL ISSUES:
1. Systemic – social systems or institutions within which
businesses operate.
2. Corporate – an individual company taken as a whole.
3. Individual – a particular individual or individuals
within a company and their behaviors and decisions.
APPLYING ETHICS TO CORPORATE
ORGANIZATIONS: two views
1. Corporate organizations are morally responsible
for their actions and that their actions are moral
or immoral in exactly the same sense that
human beings are.
APPLYING ETHICS TO CORPORATE
ORGANIZATIONS: two views
- Polygamy
- Abortion
- Infanticide
- Slavery
- Homosexuality
- Racial and sexual discrimination
- Genocide - the deliberate killing of a large group of
people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or
nation.
- Patricide - the killing of one's father.
- Torture of animals
ALL SOCIETIES HAVE NORMS AGAINST INJURING OR KILLING OTHER
MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, NORMS ABOUT USING LANGUAGE
TRUTHFULLY WHEN COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBERS OF ONE’S
SOCIETY, NORMS AGAINST TAKING THE PERSONAL GOODS OF OTHER
MEMBERS OF ONE’S SOCIETY.
TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
TECHNOLOGY – consists of all those methods, processes, and tools
that humans invent to manipulate their environment.
THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THE REVOLUTIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY