Ethics in modern management:
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New York u.a.
Quorum Books
1992
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 183 S. |
| ISBN: | 0899307078 |
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Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1
Is There an Ethical Crisis in the American Business
Community? 1
The Purpose of This Book 4
Summary 5
2 Moral Theories 7
Moral Decision Making in the Business World 7
What Moral Theories Are All About 13
Cultural Moral Relativism 14
Utilitarianism 16
Thomistic Natural Law 17
Different Moral Theories May Yield Different
Moral Principles 18
Summary 19
viii Contents
3 Human Dignity and Justice 21
Human Dignity 21
Justice 22
Summary 23
4 Moral Responsibility 25
Conditions for Moral Accountability and Liability 25
Knowledge and Freedom 25
Ignorance 26
Coercion 26
The Natural Law Solution to the Cases 28
The Utilitarian Solution to the Cases 30
The Cultural Relativist s Solution to the Cases 33
Summary 35
5 Moral Aspects of Economic Systems 37
The Moral Dimensions of an Economic System 37
Summary 39
6 Employment and Wages 41
Good Management or Good Morals? 41
Is There a Moral Right to Employment? 42
Fair Hiring Practices 44
Affirmative Action and Preferential Treatment 45
Wages 49
Some More Thoughts About Wages 50
Who Gets What Share of the Return on Resources? 51
Summary 52
7 Employee Privacy 55
Respecting Employees Rights to Privacy 55
Substance Abuse 57
Abusing Employees 59
Summary 59
Contents ix
8 Performance Appraisals 63
Ranking and Rating 63
Ethical Implications for Performance Appraisals 64
A Few Key Ethical Dos and Don ts for Performance
Appraisals 65
Summary 67
9 Firing Employees 69
When May Managers Fire Employees? 69
The Natural Law Approach 69
Dismissal for Just Cause 71
The Utilitarian Approach 72
The Cultural Relativist s Approach 73
Summary 73
10 Loyalty to a Company 77
What Loyalty Means 77
Whistle Blowing 79
Internal Whistle Blowing 80
External Whistle Blowing 82
Comments on the Cases 83
The Morality of Firing Whistle Blowers 85
What Loyalty Doesn t Mean 85
Summary 86
11 Employee and Public Safety 91
Safety at Work 91
The Utilitarian Approach 92
The Natural Law Approach 9^
The Cultural Relativist s Approach 94
Public Safety 95
Making Risks Public 98
Summary ^®®
x Contents
12 Truth in the Free Market Economic System 103
The Free Enterprise System 103
Lying and Cheating? 104
Misrepresenting Product Content 107
Undermining the Bidding Process 108
Price Fixing 110
The Utilitarian Approach 111
The Cultural Relativist s Approach 112
Summary 113
13 Advertising 117
Advertising in the Free Enterprise System 117
Persuasion 117
What Morality Requires of Advertisers 118
Appeals to Half Truths 118
Appeals to Human Vanity 119
Celebrity Endorsements 119
Pressure on Selected Audiences 120
Advertising That Demeans People 121
Is Advertising Responsible for Consumerism
and Materialism? 121
Summary 122
14 Closing Down an Operation 125
A Plant Closes 125
Moral Limits on Closing Down a Company s
Operations 130
Summary 133
15 Protecting the Environment 137
Harming the Environment 137
Conservation 139
Don t Harm 141
Summary 144
Contents xi
16 Summing Up 147
Two Sets of Ethics? 147
It s a Different Act 148
It s Somebody Else s Act, But I Had to Do It 148
What s Good for the Company Is Good for Society 149
Are Corporations Moral Persons? 151
Business Ethics Don t Exist 152
What Should an Individual Manager Do? 153
What Should a Corporation Do? 153
Summary 154
Appendix: Utilitarianism, Natural Law, and Cultural Moral
Relativism—An Expanded Version 159
Cultural Moral Relativism 159
Moral Absolutism 163
Utilitarianism 163
Thomistic Natural Law 166
Different Moral Theories May Yield Different Moral
Principles 170
Summary 170
References 173
Further Reading 177
Index 179
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