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| Desjardins & Duska: relevance of drug tests in the workplace |
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knowledge is relevant: when the employee is performing at a satisfactory level. when they aren't performing at that level, it is a fact that they aren't performing, not why they aren't performing.
knowledge is relevant when the drug use can cause harm to others, employer has a responsibility to make sure that everyone involved is safe (themselves and the other workers) knowledge of drug use can prevent harm, and the test must actually provide knowledge of use
certain jobs pose more of a safety concern (airline pilots, bus drivers) |
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| Cranford & reasons to drug test |
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drug use is correlated with decline in corporate profitability and an increase in occurence of work-related accidents. employers are satisfying drug testing on legal and ethical grounds. employees are entitled to a workplace free from drug abuse effects
justified within terms of employment contract, doesn't violate employee privacy (still thinks it is treating employee as economic end which isn't consistent with human worth and dignity) |
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-contractual boundaries exist between employee and employer
-employers are entitled to know about employee drug abuse on the grounds that it impacts an employees ability to perform to contract |
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Donaldson
no cultures ethics are better than any others, therefore there are no international rights/wrongs "when in rome, do as the romans do" no universal moral truth" |
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| directs people to do everywhere as they did at home. absolutism: single list of moral truths (Donaldson) |
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| for relativists, nothing is sacred and nothing is wrong (for absolutists, many things that are different are wrong) |
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the right to
-good health
-economic advancement & improved standard of living
-golden rule. |
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1.) respect for human dignity
2.) respect for basic rights
3.) good citizenship |
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| no tight prescriptions for a companies behavior based on core human values and situation in which the manager is put in, as long as it doesn't violate the core human values, its cool |
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| Conflict of a Cultural Decision according to Donaldson |
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1. is it possible to conduct business without the practice?
2. is the practice a violation of a core human value?
--> if no to both, then the act is permissible. if yes to both, get outta that country! |
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| Maitland: case against sweatshops |
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-increases inequality
-collusion between repressive regimes
-treat workers with a living wage
-immiserization: making workers miserable! |
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| Maitland: Home country standard |
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| it can be argued that internation corporations have an ethical duty to pay the same wages and provide the same labor standards regardless of where they operate |
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| internation corporations should, at a minimum, pay a "living wage" |
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| donaldsons test for relevance of drug tests in a country |
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| believes that "it is irrelevant whether the standards of the host country comply or fail to comply with home country standards, what is relevant is whether they meet a universal objective minimum. |
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| Maitland: classic liberal standard |
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| according to this, practice is ethically acceptable if it is freely chosen by informed workers |
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| Arnold & Bowie: reasons why wage increase isn't too shaby |
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say that corps have a responsibility to increase working condiditions in sweatshops oversees
they have devoted resources to make sure that the jobs there are good and that there are no illegal practices
some economic research shows that an increase in wages DOES NOT lead to an increase in unemployment |
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| Arnold & Bowie: corporations obligation to improve labor conditions overseas |
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-moral law requires that those who are able to help those in need should do so
-MNC's should render assistance by requiring that suppliers respect workers |
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| involves giving reasons designed to appeal to concious desires (example: sham wow) |
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| advertiser attempts to link product to a subconcious desire(or fear) (example: beer ...Budweiser) |
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| informative and persuasive |
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| Arrington: nonrational advertising |
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| includes puffery and subliminal advertising |
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| Arrington: nonautonomous vs. autonomous |
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autonomous: one you desire to maintain and fulfill(good thing, bad when someone interferes with it!)
nonautonomous: one you desire to not have (ie: a klepto and stealing!) |
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| Arrington: desires induced in advertising be thought to be non-autonomous? |
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| perhaps, but only in an exceptional case? find out more on this |
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| Arrington: autonomy & ads |
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advertising may violate our autonomy, but this only happens in exceptional cases, we buy things repeatedly, so it means we like them
undermines our autonomy by inducing desire (autonomy--> self desire) |
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| Waide: what world are you creating? |
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| people had a meaningful life before advertising, may promote a less good kind of life |
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| Waide: 2 problems with advertising |
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1. lack of concern for well-being of people who will be influenced
2. targets of advertising are made worse "you are what you own" culture |
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Paine & Children Advertising:
why kids are different |
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1. sense of self
2. sense of time
3. sense of money |
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Children & Paine
3 ethical principles |
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1. veracity
2. fairness/respect
3. harm to children |
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it is not permissible for large firms because the harm is not big enough to them
it is permissible for small firms because it will feel the effect, the harm that it will suffer from is severe and it is unlikely to affect other firms |
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