Deep Ecology, Business Ethics and Personal Responsibility

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Deep Ecology

Addressing Moral Confusion: The Principles Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan ◽  
William English ◽  
John Hasnas ◽  
Peter Jaworski
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Doing Business

Business ethics primarily concerns how businesses conduct themselves and how they make their money. Sometimes businesspeople act badly because they suffer from moral confusion—that is, they are genuinely unsure what moral principles apply to their situation or how to apply them correctly. There are at least five major principles of business ethics which are inherent or built-in to the very idea of doing business. These include that personal responsibility is inalienable, that we must respect the autonomy of others, that coercion, discrimination, and deception are forbidden, and that contracts must be honored. Further, building these ethical principles into each stage of the strategic planning process helps to ensure that businesses act well.

The soul of business

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Czinkota
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analysis the relationship between business ethics and business activities in the dynamic world. Corporations are increasingly expected to play a stronger role as a collaborator with government and society in finding solutions to future challenges. Money no longer is the only or ultimate outcome of business. Business executives like to see themselves as self-sufficient, societally supportive and leading. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a case study. Findings Four new core areas need to be understood which are a field’s pillars for a shining business position: truthfulness, simplicity, expanded participation and personal responsibility. In addition, the introduction of guiding key tenets in the educational curriculum of business schools need to be considered. Originality/value This study focuses on business ethnics.

Corporate Moral Responsibility: When it Might Matter

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Control ◽  
Corporate Moral Responsibility ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract:The debate over corporate moral responsibility has become a fixture in business ethics research and teaching. Only rarely, however, does the sizable literature on that question consider whether the debate has important practical implications. This article examines that question from a corporate control perspective. After assuming corporate moral responsibility’s existence for purposes of argument, the article concludes that such responsibility makes a difference in cases where it is present but personal responsibility is absent. Then the article tries to identify the forces that diminish personal responsibility when corporate responsibility exists. The most important such forces, it concludes, spring from the socialization processes people undergo when they enter groups. One example is the well-known phenomenon of groupthink, which can exculpate individuals by rendering them justifiably ignorant of foreseeable risks of harm.

Deep Ecology: Central Texts

2001 ◽  
pp. 279-282
Keyword(s):  
Deep Ecology

Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman E. Bowie
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics

Business Ethics at Work

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Vallance
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics

My Culture Made Me Do It

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Luis Uhlmann ◽  
Brian A. Nosek
Keyword(s):  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Cultural Socialization ◽  
Racial Biases

The present research examined the effects of egocentric motivations on individuals’ explanations for how their automatic racial prejudices came into being. The majority of participants reported experiencing biased thoughts, feelings, and gut reactions toward minorities which they found difficult to consciously control, and they attributed such biases to cultural socialization. Of particular interest, ego-threatened participants were significantly more likely to attribute their automatic racial biases to their culture and significantly less likely to attribute such biases to themselves. Results suggest that attributing one’s racial biases to cultural socialization can be a defensive, motivated process aimed at diminishing personal responsibility.

Personal Responsibility Therapy

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-400
Author(s):  
George S. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Personal Responsibility
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