COMM101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Turnitin, John Stuart Mill
Week 4
Comm101 - Principles of Responsible Business
Is responsible business important? Reflective Essay Preparation and Turnitin
Lecture Outline
-Introduction
-Personal vs social responsibility
-Normative theories of ethics
-Kohlberg’s moral stages of development
Personal vs Social Responsibility
-What should i do? How should I act? —> When reflecting about your own actions use this
phrase
-Personal
•there will be many times within a business setting there an individual will need to step back
and ask —> what should i do? how should i act?
-Social - this view is concerned with…
•how business institutions ought to be structured
•about corporate social responsibility
•about making decisions that will impact
•effects many people other than the individual decision maker
-Requisites of ethical action
•Awareness of an ethical problem
•ability to reason about ethical issues
•Having the motivation to act ethically
•having the persistence, courage and/or fortitude to implement the ethical action in the face
of inevitable obstacles
Normative Theories of Ethics
-the purpose of ethics to to determine and provide guidelines to resolve, conflicting individual
interests and the conflict between societal and individual interests
-look up on youtube - Prudential - everybody’s doing it! —> watch this again
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Document Summary
> when re ecting about your own actions use this phrase. Social - this view is concerned with : how business institutions ought to be structured, about corporate social responsibility, about making decisions that will impact, effects many people other than the individual decision maker. The purpose of ethics to to determine and provide guidelines to resolve, con icting individual interests and the con ict between societal and individual interests. Look up on youtube - prudential - everybody"s doing it! Non consequential theories: kant, virtue theory. Types of utilitarianism: act utilitarianism > the maximisation of happiness for everyone is our only moral obligation (not acting out of morals, only out of maximisation of happiness) !2: rule utilitarianism > the standard should be applied to moral codes as a whole > we should apply the utilitarian standard only to the assessment of alternative moral codes > Week 4 optimum universal moral codes: universal moral codes > prme, une global compact.
