Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
BUSINESS ETHICS
MANOLETE GONZALEZ
Introductions
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Major
Provide an example of a situation you have encountered that
comes close, in your opinion, to an unethical decision or
action?
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Sensitivity: To insure that you are aware of/sensitive to ethical issues in all
aspects of the business environment and professional exchanges.
Skill-Building: To provide you with reasoning and decision-making tools to
help you think through ethical issues and to respond sensibly when faced with
such issues.
Integration: To enable you to effectively integrate your personal values and
reasoning skills into all of what you do and stand for.
Practice: To give you opportunities to "practice" values integration and ethical
reasoning processes in case experiences.
Understanding: To offer you a deeper understanding of the role you play in
forming organizational culture and the means by which you can impact it in a
positive manner.
Reinforcement: To reinforce the resources available to you if confronted with
ethical situations.
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Requirements
All class information syllabus, etc. are accessible through the wou website
Class Preparation Reports (5) based on situations described in text
Group Reports
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Requirements
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House Rules
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House Rules
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Chapter1
Ethics & Business
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Business Ethics: Decision-Making for Personal
Integrity
& Social Responsibility,
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Chapter Objectives
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Consider the range of people who were harmed by the collapse of Enron.
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Stakeholders
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Stakeholder Theory
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Stakeholders: Corporations
Customers/Clients
Stockholders
Employees
Consumer advocates
Regulators
Media
Government
Trade Associations
Competitors
Local Community
Others?????
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REALITY CHECK
Why be good?
The Institute for Business, Technology and Ethics
suggests the following Nine Good Reasons to run a
business ethically:
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Litigation/indictment avoidance
Regulatory freedom
Public acceptance
Investor confidence
Supplier/partner trust
Customer loyalty
Employee performance
Personal pride
Its right
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"While the headlines are going to all the guys who are doing
it wrong, there is a very strong corps of people who are really
committed to doing it right. Part of doing it right is you're not
doing it to get headlines. You're doing it to really make a
difference in the lives of people.
-- Georgetown College President Bill Crouch, speaking at a business ethics conference
sponsored by the Ethical Leadership Institute. (
"Strong Ethics Help Businesses Succeed, Conference Speakers Say," AP, Mar. 25)
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Day 2
Questions?
Plan for the course?
Requirements?
Continue with Ch 1
Ch 2
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What is ethics?
At its most basic level, ethics is
concerned with how we act and how
we live our lives.
What is ethics?
What is ethics?
How should we live?
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Values =
Those beliefs that incline us to act or to choose in
one way rather than another.
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Distinguishing Norms
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The law provides a very important guide to ethical decisionmaking, but legal norms and ethical norms are not identical
nor do they always agree.
Over the last decade, many corporations have established
ethics programs and hired ethics officers who are charged
with managing corporate ethics programs.
Much good work gets done by ethics officers, but it is fair to
say that much of this focuses on compliance issues. The
Sarbanes-Oxley Act created a dramatic and vast new layer of
legal compliance issues.
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Reality Check
Ethics goes Mainstream!
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Discussion of Opening
Decision Point:
Aaron Feuerstein
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Discussion of Opening
Decision Point
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