Lifeboat ethics in business

Article Abstract:

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.

Ethical aspects, Plant shutdowns

---

Conscience and its counterfeits in organizational life: a new interpretation of the naturalistic fallacy

Article Abstract:

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.

---

Globalization and the ethics of business

Article Abstract:

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.

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Why ethics matters: a defense of ethics in business organizations. Globalization and the failure of ethics
• Abstracts: What form of business regulation is workable? Hybrid vehicles, consumer choice, and the ethical obligation of business
• Abstracts: The place of ethics in business: shifting paradigms ? Ideology and the economic social contract in a downsizing environment
• Abstracts: The virtues appropriate to business. Virtuous markets: the market as school of the virtuous. Virtuous peers in work organizations
• Abstracts: Who are the stakeholders? What difference does it make? Truisms in business ethics. Stakeholders and consent

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.