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ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
UTILITARIANISM
MORAL RIGHTS
KANT
RAWLS
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY
FRIEDMAN’S VIEW
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE’S VIEW
NOVAK --”BUSINESS AS A CALLING”
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ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
Ethics can provide guidance for addressing non-market issues, such as
product safety, environmental regulation & employment practices
Ethics and corporate social responsibility can be alternative to and/or preempt government intervention & regulation
Ethics concerned with moral standards & normative issues (i.e., how businesses & managers ought to behave)
There are different ethical perspectives
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1. UTILITARIANISM
Strongest influence on our way of thinking, e.g., social efficiency
criteria
Weighing economic costs & benefits of actions
Criticisms:
does not consider distribution effects
ignores intrinsic rights
does not consider values other than economic
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2. MORAL RIGHTS (KANT)
Includes, civil liberties (free speech), political rights (right
to vote, political equality)
Emphasis on freedom and individual & moral rights
Embedded in U.S. constitution & legislation
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RULES USED TO DERIVE MORAL RIGHTS
Universibility- “would I like everyone to
behave in that manner?”
Reversibility- “would I want that rule applied to me?”
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CRITICISMS OF KANTIAN MORAL RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE
How does one weigh conflicting rights?
For
example:
“right to life” vs. “right to choice”
equal opportunity vs. affirmative action
right to smoke vs. right to breathe clean air
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3. THEORY OF JUSTICE(JOHN RAWLS)
Similar to Kant’s moral rights perspective, but
adds comparative dimension
Concerned with relative standing of individuals
Behind “veil of ignorance” we would choose an egalitarian society (Rawls argues)
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CRITICISMS OF THEORY OF JUSTICE:
Ignores the role of differential rewards in
furthering the general welfare in a capitalist economy
Income “leveling” might reduce incentives to work and innovate and be detrimental to long term economic growth and societal well-being
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Cases of Applied Ethics
Affirmative Action: based mainly on moral rights and
equality principles
correcting for past wrongs;
however, does correcting past wrong create new ones (“reverse discrimination”)?
Affirmative action might also be justified by utilitarian perspective --as a way to diversify workforce and gain market insights-e.g., Levi Strauss Corp. example
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Cases of Applied Ethics
Microsoft Anti-trust case -- did the company act
in violation of moral rights and/or utilitarian values and objectives?
Access to the Internet --public policy insights from applying all three ethical perspectives
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
(1) Two Different Perspectives of CSR
Milton Friedman
The Business
Roundtable
(2) Novak --”Business as a Calling”
(3) Ben & Jerry’s Case --Group 1
(4) CSR --can it serve utilitarian ends?
(5) PCConnection --Matt Cookson, Director of Public Affairs
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FRIEDMAN (CHICAGO SCHOOL) View of Corporate Social Responsibility
Managers/corporations should maximize profits
while conforming to the basic rules of society
Shareholders are the principals, managers are their agents in the pursuit of profit max. and max. shareholder wealth
Profits represent the net contribution that the firm makes to the social good
Managers representing shareholders and profit maximizing also act in best interest of society
Managers using corporate resources to promote social objectives in fact would be undemocratic
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BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
View of Corp Social Responsibility
It is a corporation’s responsibility
to serve the public interest, as well as private profit
Corporate stakeholders include not only shareholders, but also: employees, communities, and society at large
Corporation is a legal entity, creation of the state, and therefore it should not be viewed as the sole owner of “its” assets
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NOVAK --BUSINESS AS A CALLING
Private firms add to society’s well-being
Private corporations
create wealth beyond the wealth that existed before it came into being (similar to Friedman’s view)
(Even) the pope argues: “when a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors of the earth are used to satisfy human needs and are at the service of the whole society”
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NOVAK’S VIEW
OF MANAGERIAL ETHICS
Business corporations generate an important form of
human community
Managers therefore have responsibility for creating moral community at workplace (more in line with business roundtable)
Firms and managers responsibilities include:
facilitating rewards for hard work (consistent with our merit-based society)
promoting upward mobility
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Managerial Ethics: What are managers responsible for?
Adherence to the letter &
intent of the law
Honesty and integrity
Contributions to the development.of employees and communities
Capability of withstanding full disclosure of activities, a willingness to reveal to family/community/general public any action
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Ben & Jerry’s Case
Group 1 case leadership
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Functionality of CSR: Does it (Can It) Contribute to Profitability?
(+’s)
Good public
relations, can improve public image
Can be used as “tool” to reach common goals
-can guide employee behavior
-can lead to shared values and cooperative effort
- “larger” purpose for corporation and employees e.g., could be used for recruitment
Can help avoid costly errors that may result from too narrow a focus on short term profits (e.g., Exxon Valdez)
In general, can help firms better anticipate nonmarket pressures, that can affect profitability
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CSR (-’s)
Can take away from the focus of the corporation
Expensive, according
to Friedman, by definition corporate social responsibility reduces profits
Corporations and managers are best at maximizing net worth, that is ultimate responsibility of business.
Managers are trained in business, not social policy and/or ethics
Dangerous, corporate activity outside the market in social responsibility arena can give managers discretion over use of corporate funds to promote their personal political and social beliefs- csr can be “undemocratic”
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CONCLUSION:
Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility
“Power” of the private market as
a regulator of not only economic behavior (most efficient use of resources by firms) but also corporate social practices
As consumers (employees) become more concerned with social, environmental and product safety issues and are provided with more info they are positioned to regulate corporate behavior and ethics through their purchases (decisions where to work)
Corporate social responsibility and ethical considerations influence purchase decisions of consumers, employee decisions of where to work, and investor decisions and thereby can contribute to profitability and net equity/worth