Authority and autonomy

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Autonomy refers to individuals' freedom to choose their own paths and be responsible for their own actions. However, this freedom is subordinated to an authority that institutes regulations meant for protecting the bigger society. Thus, people have to conform to certain organizational ethics which may not be similar to their personal ethics. In order to have autonomy, individuals would just have to resort to choosing a company which holds values similar to their own.

Autonomy (Psychology), Authority, Social values

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Altruism, ingroups, and fairness: comments on David Messick's "Social Categories and Business Ethics."

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Altruism is said to pertain to a matter of choosing to provide a benefit to another at the expense of one's self. If so, a good deed for a family member or a member of one's own group cannot be an act of altruism, since the concept of self-interest need not be interpreted so narrowly. In managing the organizational culture, the self-fulfilling expectations that match people's views of who belongs to an ingroup and their interests should always be taken into account.

Business Ethics, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Altruism, Altruism (Human behavior), Fairness

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On Messick and naturalism: a rejoinder to Fort

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An analysis is presented on the moral implications of social divisions, and factors that may possibly influence the making of those divisions. It is posited that although technology may eradicate certain attributes that fostered original divisions, new divisions will inevitably surface.

United States, Ethical aspects, Technology and civilization, Technology and society, Social groups, Ethics, Evolutionary, Evolutionary ethics

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