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| the discipline that deals with moral duty and obligation |
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| concerned with morality and fairness in behavior, actions and practices that take place within a business context |
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| concerned with describing, characterizing and studying the morality of a people, an organiztion, a culture, or a society |
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| concerned with supplying and justifying a coherent moral system of thinking and juding |
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based on how common society today view business ethics
based on ordinary, common sense |
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| based on the use of ethics principles or guidelines to justify and direct behavior, actions and policies |
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| based on short, practical questions or "tests" to guide ethical decision making, behavior and prctices |
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| Conventional Approach to Business Ethics |
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| the kind whereby we compare a decision, practice or policy with prevailing norms of acceptability in society |
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| an ethical principle based on the idea that the individual should seek to maximize his or her own self-interests as a legitimate factor |
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| pick and choose which source of norms we wish to use on the basis of what will justify our current actions or maximize our freedom |
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| an approach that is devoid of ethical principles or precepts and at the same time implies a positive and active oppostiion to what is ethical |
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