Lifeboat ethics in business
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The concept of lifeboat ethics is applied to plant closings. Power and rights are the two primary ethical concerns. The power of the decision maker rather than the rights of employees determines who will stay employed and who will be terminated. Ethicists would argue that the greater a corporation's power, the greater its social responsibility.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 2000
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Conscience and its counterfeits in organizational life: a new interpretation of the naturalistic fallacy
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Issues are discussed regarding the need for executives to foster a culture of ethical awareness in their organizations to take the place of non-moral systems serving as substitutes for the role of conscience in organizational settings. Some practical suggestions for fostering such a culture are made.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 2000
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Globalization and the ethics of business
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Issues are discussed regarding those standards of business ethics generally recognized in business and the ways in which they were established, as they should be what the academic field of business ethics studies.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 2000
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