Presentation
1999 Valuing Business Ethics Presentation to Victoria University Business Faculty: PPT
Oxford Systematics
(1999)
Abstract
This talk had its genesis in a long telephone discussion with the Director of the Centre, which canvassed a range of perspectives and hypotheses about the emergence of business ethics as a matter of current practical concern. The presentation develops the thesis and then suggests some appropriate ways of actually valuing some aspects of business ethics. The catch is that unless a culturally relativist approach is accepted, then such experiments are not meaningful
There are major differences between the manner in which the words morals and ethics are used, and even more when they are qualified by the term 'business'.
It is interesting how the addition of the qualifier 'business' seems to change our perceptions of the terms, almost as if they were no longer applicable to people, and in some way are different to the terms in application to individuals.
Why does this happen? Is there difference between what people regard as moral or ethical for themselves and for their employers? Are there behaviours that they would comply with in the work place and not outside it? Are there actions and decisions made in a business context that they would not make in their own personal context outside the business or organisational environment?
The answers to at least some of these questions are often: Yes. Yet these decisions and actions are undertaken by the same people as make different decisions and undertake different actions in their own personal environment.
Keywords
- ethics,
- business,
- computing,
- professional
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring November 9, 1999
Location
Victoria University
Comments
This paper and presentation explored a then recent (turn of the century) ACS Ethics Task force survey, and put the approach into context..the conclusion is that business ethics is still essentially an experimental study..
Citation Information
Wigan. M.R (1999) Valuing business ethics. Presentation to the Business Faculty at Victoria University. RMIT Department of Psychology and Intellectual Disability. Available at https://works.bepress.com/mwigan/44/
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