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Welcome to

Business Ethics

MGT2BET

Ethics

MGT2BET

Nicole El Haber

Subject coordinator

n.elhaber@latrobe.edu.au

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the nature of morality

• Define and understand ethics, including business and

organisational ethics

• Understand the role of values and individual responsibility in

morality and ethics

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Summary of today’s activities

Getting to know what the subject is about and how it is to be assessed

Getting to know yourself (as a person and an individual of society)

Getting to know those around you (in‐class or in society)

The theory of nature, morality, rules, justice, responsibility, etc..

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Subject Description

• Through the introduction and engagement of a number of moral

frameworks to analyse issues and challenges in the management and

operations of a contemporary organization the business ethics (BET)

student will participate in an innovative and challenging learning

experience / process via the completion of oral and written in‐class

and external assessment tasks

• Students will adopt relevant roles to participate in a high‐level, ethics

and rights discussion and debate, to consider issues relating to

organisations, global trade, advertising, the environment (corruption

and governance and the person as an individual.

• Working individually and in teams, within a collaborative environment,

students will explore and analyse relevant literatures to develop their

roles and moral reasoning, in order to present (oral / written) an

ethnically based case to their peers and/or external parties..

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Assessment Tasks

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ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK SUMMARY

Assessment Tasks: Due Date SILOs FGCs %

Individual Reflective Exercises Tuesday 30 th August at 9am 1, 3 a, c, d, 20%

Group Case Study (written and oral) Tuesday 11 th October at 9am 1,2,3,4 a,b,c,d,e,f 30%

Final Examination Centrally examined 1,2,3,4 a,c,d,f 50%

Textbook (Must Have)

Textbook

Moral Issues in

Business – 2 nd

Asia Pacific

Edition

Shaw, Barry, Issa

& Catley ‐ 2013

Cengage (ISBN:

9780170214957)

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Some of the topics to be covered n in the

subject

• You and your ethical / moral

views

• What is ethics?

• Ethical and moral theory

• Culture and ethics

• Environmental ethics

• CSR

• The triple or quad bottom line

• Global and MNC business

• The organization and its ethical

standards, etc.

• Workplace ethics and practices

• Ethical Leadership

• Personal ethics and ‘good

customs and practices’

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The moral side of murder – what would you do?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR‐8hEY

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Why study ethics?

• Common misconceptions:

• Values are formed prior to higher education

• Ethics are irrelevant in a business context

• Teaching business ethics does not work

• Goals for business education:

• Awareness

• Moral development

• Handling complex issues

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Why do you think you are

studying

ethics?

Williams, S.D. & Dewett, T. , (2005). Yes, You Can Teach Business Ethics: A review and Research Agenda. Journal of

Leadership & Organizational Studies. 12 (2). 109-120.

Ethics

•How are we to relate to each other in order to

ensure that our individual and collective wellbeing

is enhanced?’

How should I live my life?

What sort of person should I strive to be?

What goals should I pursue?

What standards or principles should I live by?

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Ethics deals with..

• Individual character

• Moral rules that govern us

• Questions of right and

wrong

• Fairness and unfairness

• Good and bad

• Duty and obligation

• Justice and injustice

• Moral responsibility

• Values that should guide

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BUSINESS ETHICS

Is the study of what constitutes right and wrong, good or

bad, human conduct in a business context.

For example;

Would it be right for a store manager to break a promise to a

customer and sell some hard‐to find merchandise to someone

whose need for it is greater?

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ACQUIRING MORAL STANDARDS

•Our early upbringing

•The behaviour of those around us

•The moral standards of our culture

•Our own experiences, and our critical reflections on

those experiences

•Can our principles withstand critical scrutiny?

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ETHICAL CULTURE

Ethical climate

organisational prescriptions, proscriptions and

permissions that determine what constitutes ethical

conduct

Ethical culture

the organisational capacity and conditions that

encourage ethical behaviours among employees

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ETHICAL CULTURE AND BEHAVIOUR

• Ethical role modelling behaviour by managers and supervisors

• Capability to behave ethically

• Commitment of managers and employees to behave ethically

• Openness by managers and employees to discuss ethical issues

• Reinforcement of ethical behaviour

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Roger’s dilemma

Roger was conducting an annual audit of a machinery manufacturer

when he found that the firm had received a large loan from the local

savings and loans association. It is illegal for a saving and loans

association to make a loan to a manufacturing firm; they are restricted

by law to mortgages based upon residential real estate.

Roger took his working papers and a Xerox copy of the ledger showing

the loan to his boss, the partner in charge of the office. His boss

listened to Roger and then told Roger: “I will take care of this privately.

We simply cannot afford to lose a client of this status. You put the

papers you have through the shredder.”

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Morals, Values, and Ethics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9TWEKeqNw

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Business and organisational ethics

Business ethics is the study of

what constitutes right and wrong,

or good and bad,

human conduct in a business context.

An organisation is

a group of people

working together

to achieve a common purpose.

Organisations may or may not be profit oriented.

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Moral versus non‐ ‐ moral standards

• Factual vs. moral questions

• When dealing with moral questions, we appeal to moral

standards.

• These standards differ from other kinds of standards

because they concern behaviour that is of serious

consequence to human welfare.

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Moral standards

Moral behaviour can profoundly benefit people

and immoral behaviour can do harm.

Human beings should be treated with dignity and respect.

Moral standards take priority over other

standards.

Including self interest, because it is the nature of our

relations to each other that is at the centre of ethical

concern.

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MORAL STANDARDS CONT.

• Are products healthful or harmful?

• Are work conditions safe or dangerous?

• Are personnel procedures biased or fair?

• Is privacy respected or invaded?

• These are all matters that seriously affect human well‐being,

and they are explored in this subject.

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Lecture Exercise‐ ‐

1. Write down three factual statements and three moral

statements.

Discuss with your neighbor how factual statements differ from

moral ones.

2. Write down three moral principles by which you live your life.

Where and when did you adopt these principles?

3. Is coping with organizational norms more important than adhering

to personal principles?

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Ethics Ethical Distinctions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTppWzaN0k

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Morality and etiquette

Etiquette refers to acceptable behaviour within a

society.

Rules of etiquette are generally non‐moral in character.

But rules of etiquette can have moral implications.

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Morality and the law

• Complying with the law does not necessarily guarantee

moral behaviour,

• just as breaking the law does not always result in immoral

behaviour.

• Acting immorally does not always result in illegal behaviour,

• just as acting morally does not necessarily guarantee the

legality of an action.

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Morality and the law cont.

•An action can be illegal but morally right:

Heinz Dilemma

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HEINZ DILEMMA

In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer.

There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a

form of radium that a chemist in the same town had recently

discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the chemist was

charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $400 for

the radium and charged $4000 for a small dose of the drug.

The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow

the money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together

about $2000, which was half of what it cost. He told the chemist that

his wife was dying, and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later.

But the chemist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I’m going to make

money from it”. So having tried every legal means, Heinz gets

desperate and considers breaking into the chemist’s store to steal the

drug for his wife.

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Morality and the law cont.

An action that is legal can be morally wrong:

Failure of a person with knowledge of first aid to render

assistance at the scene of an accident, when there is no

valid reason not to help.

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Morality and the law cont.

Laws codify a society’s customs, ideals, norms and

moral values.

Laws are not sufficient to establish the moral

standards to guide us.

The law is too blunt an instrument to provide moral

guidance.

It provides a base from which to form our moral

standards, but it does not encompass all possible

breaches of moral conduct.

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Professional codes

• Are often too vague to be of practical use

• Can consist of a mix of purely moral rules, professional

etiquette and restrictions designed to benefit the

profession’s economic interests

• Many are seen merely as tools for self promotion

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Ethical relativism

•What is right is defined by

•what a society says is right.

•Argues that ‘might is right’

•Undermines moral reasoning

What is right in one culture may be wrong in another.

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RELATIVISM AND THE ‘GAME’ OF BUSINESS

‘Business has its own moral standards, and it

should only be judged by those standards’.

Any specialised activity has its own rules and standards,

but the morality of those rules and standards should still

be subject to evaluation.

Business activity affects those who have not chosen to

play the ‘game’.

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Moral reasoning

Moral reasoning should be based on facts.

Judgements based on analysis of all relevant and

accurate information

Moral reasoning should be based on sound moral

principles.

Judgements based on considered beliefs rather than on

gut responses

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Moral reasoning

•Moral judgements should be logical.

Judgements based on evidence and reason; not emotion,

sentiment or preference

Judgements that are logically compatible with our other

moral and non‐moral beliefs

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Moral principles and self interest

The moral standards of a society provide the basic

guidelines for cooperative social existence.

Generally,

following moral principles is in our best interests,

particularly in a business context.

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Organisational norms

A major characteristic of an organisation

 is its members’ shared acceptance of organisational

rules.

Evidence suggests that many managers experience

role

conflicts between what is expected of them as

efficient managers and

as ethical persons.

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