COMM 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Business Ethics, Statutory Law, Organizational Culture
31 Aug 2016
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Decisions considered to be unethical are often a result of one or more of four factors: Ingrained habits that ignore the ethical implications of one"s actions: a lack of awareness of the ethical dimensions of the situation. 2: rewards or punishments instilled by the organizational culture, a lack of proper skills to analyze and resolve the situation using ethics. Morality social practices defining right and wrong. Transmitted within cultures and institutions from generation to generation. Morality cannot be purely a personal policy or code and is certainly not confined to the rules in professional codes of conduct adopted by corporations and professional associations. Ethical theory tries to introduce clarity, substance and precision of argument into the domain of morality. Distinguish between moral rules (the right thing to do) and rules of prudence (self- interest) It is often heard good ethics is good business . However, if it doesn"t make bottom line sense we wouldn"t do it.
