Business Ethics
Q1. (a). “Ethics has no place in business.” Discuss this statement.
Q1. (b) “An ethic of caring conflicts with morality because morality requires impartiality.” Discuss this criticism of an ethic of caring.
Q2. (a) “From an ethical point of view, big business is always bad business.” Discuss the pros and cons of this statement.
Q2. (b) “Equality, justices and a respect for rights are characteristics of the American economic System. Would you agree or disagree with this statement? Why?
Q3. (a) Do you agree with the claims that (i) future generations have no rights, and (ii) the future generations to which we have obligations actually include only the generation that will immediately succeed us? Explain your answer. If you do not agree with these claims, state your own views and provide arguments to support them.
Q3. (b) Discuss the arguments for and against the 3 main theories of a producer’s duties to the customer. In your judgment, which theory is most adequate? Are there any marketing areas where one theory is more appropriate than the others?
Q4. (a) In your judgment was the historical shift in emphasis from intentional/isolated discrimination to non-intentional/ institutionalized discrimination good or bad? Justify your statement.
Q4. (b) Kohlderg’s views on moral development show that the more morally mature a personal becomes, the more likely it is that the person will obey the moral morms of his or her socieity.” Discuss.
Q5. (a) In view of contractual agreement that every employee makes to be loyal to the Employer. Do you think that the Whistle blowing is ever morally justified? Explain your answer.
Q5. (b) In your judgment, is it wrong, from an ethical point of view, for the auto companies to submit plans for an automobile to China? Explain your answer.
Q6. (a) “Utilitarianism is the view that so long as an action provides with more measurable economic benefits than costs, the action is morally right.” Identify all of the mistakes contained in this definition of utilitarianism.
Q6. (b) “Any pollution law is unjust because it necessarily violates people’s right to liberty and right to property.” Discuss.
Q6. (c) Evaluate the desirability of the “caring organization.”
Ans: Business Organizational ethics is a tool that shapes an organization as a community. In every organization, there is something that works well, which can serve as a foundation for significant progress toward a desired future. Organizational ethics pays special attention to the best of an organization’s past and present to ignite its collective imagination of what might be. It builds from what is working well now toward where the organization and its stakeholders truly desire to go. Organizational ethics sees an organization as a community to be valued and explored. It strives to quicken and intensify existing individual capabilities and organizational capacities, extend their number and scope, organize them so that their conflicts will be harmonized, and mobilize their energies of will and intellect to bring them to self-realization. Organizational integrity is the end sought. It is a dynamic state of being and process; it both shapes and improves. It is about moving the organization toward its guiding image of the future…….
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