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Ethics in Corporate Responsibility
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Management
Undergraduate 3
12/17/2013

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Consequentialist Approach
Definition
  • Focused on the consequences to society
  • Be sure to: think broadly (consider stakeholders), and choose the best decision = yields greatest net benefits to society
  • Adv.: practical and already underlies most business thinking
  • DisAdv.: difficult to evaluate all consequences, difficult to calulate harms and benefits, and rigths of minorities can be sacrificed
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Deontological Approach
Definition
  • application of broad abstract universal principles (honesty, promise-keeping, fairness, rights, justice, etc.)
  • focus on doing what is consistent with one's principles
  • Adv.: easy to apply and rights approach (found in pulic policy debates)
  • DisAdv.: determing what rules or principles to follow, deciding which takes precedence, reconciling deo. and con. approches when they conflict
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Virtue Ethics Approach
Definition
  • Character is defined by one's community
  • Good shortcuts: choose a community that holds you to the highest standards, use harshest moral critic, disclosure rule, and trust your gut.
  • Adv.: Can rely upon community standards and "Gut check"
  • DisAdv. choice of community, limited aggrement about community standards and community can be wrong
Term
Script Processing
Definition
  • Script- a cognitive framework that guides thought in routine situations
  • Makes behavior automatic
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Moral Disengagement
Definition
  1. Moral Justification (framing act as in service of greater good)
  2. Advantageous Comparison (using contrast to make an act seem less harmful)
  3. Euphemistic Language (rename an act using benign language)
  4. Displacement of Responsibility (blaming ones's actions to authority figures)
  5. Diffusion of Responsibility (blaming across members or a group or system)
  6. Distorting Consequences (minimizing or ignoring seriousness of the effects)
  7. Dehumanization (framing victim as unworthy of common human treatment)
  8. Attribution of Blame (blaming the victim)
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Cognitive Biases
Definition
  • a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion
  • Fact Gathering (look for confirming or supporting info.)
  • Thinking about consequences (tendency to consider too few consequences and under estimate risks)
  • Thinking about integrity (illusion of morality)
Term
Ethical Culture
Definition
  • The shared assumptions, values, and beliefs in an organization.
  • Created through combinations of formal and informal systems.
  • Alignment can either be strong or weak.
Term
Formal systems
Definition
  • Leadership
  • Structure
  • Rules/Policies
  • Reward System
  • Selection System
  • Orientation/Training
  • Decision Processes
Term
Informal systems
Definition
  • Norms
  • Heroes
  • Rituals
  • Myths/Stories
  • Language
Term
Obedience to Authority
Definition
  • Socialized to be obedient- ensures harmony and a stable environment
  • Situational Etiquette- not wanting to disrupt the status quo
  • Disobedience only comes when absolutely necessary
Term
Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility
Definition
  • Top of the Pyramid: Philanthropic Responsibility (be a good corporate citizen)
  • Ethical Responsibility (be ethical)
  • Legal Responsibility (obey the law)
  • Bottom of the Pyramid: Economic Responsibility (be profitable)
Term
Implicit-Association Test
Definition
  • designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
Term
Moral Awareness
Definition
  • the process of identifying the ethical issues involved, the parties who have a stake in the action, what is at stake, and what the the action options are.
  • poor moral awareness can either result in a failure to perceive the problem as being an ethical problem at all, or can present the agent with a distorted or insufficient picture of the problem to be resolved.
Term
Bad Apple/Bad Barrel Theory
Definition
  • "Bad Apple"- the notion that blame for unethical behavior rests with a few unsavory individuals (difficult for organizations to influence ethical decision making)
  • "Bad Barrel"- views that people are not inherently ethical or unethical, but are influenced by the corporate culture surrounding them (more organizational control)

Term
False Choice
Definition
  • a type of fallacy that involves a situation in which limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. (ex. NYC noise pollution)
Term
Locus of Control
Definition
  • Internal: believes that everything that happens to themselves is due to their own actions.
  • External: believes that everything happening to to them is caused by outside sources out of their control. (ex. luck, fate, or powerful being)
Term
Promised Land
Definition
  • Steve Butler= Matt Damon
  • Global Crosspower Solutions
  • Sue = Frances Mcdormand
  • Dustin Noble = John Krasinski
  • Set in Rural Pennsylvania
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