Ethics presentation

Ethics

By: Wylie J. D. Tidwell, III

Created 11/17/10 Modified 5/19/11

© 2011 WYLIE JASON DONTE’ TIDWELL, III All Rights Reserved

So what is ethics?   “According to John Rawls . . . ‘ethics is how we

decide to behave when we decide we belong together,’ the study of ethics has to do with developing standards for judging the conduct of one party whose behavior affects another” (Gini, 2010, p. 347).

Gini, A. (2010). Moral Leadership and Business Ethics (2nd ed.) (G. R. Hickman, Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Definition of Ethics   Professor John Chaffee states,

  “ethics and morals are terms that refer to the principles that govern our relationships with other people: the ways we ought to behave . . . standards that we should employ in the decisions we make” (Chaffee, 2009, p.307)

Chaffee, J. (2009). Thinking Critically (9th ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning.


Ethics   is the ability “to qualify for moral consideration; you must be able to use

the power of reason to derive and understand the moral law, and you must follow the law because you recognize it as moral imperative” (Waller, 2008, p. 140).

Waller, B. (2008). Consider Ethics: Theory, Readings, and Contemporary Issues (2nd ed.). New York: Pearson Longman.


Business Ethics   “business ethics examines moral controversies relating

to the social responsibilities of capitalist business practices, the moral status of corporate entities, deceptive advertising, insider trading, basic employee rights, job discrimination, affirmative action, drug testing, and whistle blowing” (Fieser, 2003)

Fieser, J. (2003). Ethics. In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http:/ / www.iep.utm.edu/ ethics/


Business Ethics   Ethics is:

  “how we treat each other, every day, person to person. If you want to know about a company’ ethics, look at how it treats people ---- customers, suppliers, and employees (Gini, 2010, p. 349).

  “Business is about people . . . Ethics is about how customers and employees' are treated” (Gini, 2010, p. 349).

Gini, A. (2010). Moral Leadership and Business Ethics (2nd ed.) (G. R. Hickman, Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:

Sage.


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Ethical Issue   Terry Cooper

  describes an ethical issues as, “when competing or conflicting ethical principles or values are embedded in a practical problem” (Cooper, 2006)

Cooper, T. (2006). The Responsible Administrator. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.


Cooper's Ethical Decision-making model

  consists of four steps

1.  identifying an ethical problem

2.  identifying possible courses of action

3.  projecting the probable consequences

4.  select the best fit

(Cooper, 2006, pp.29-30)

Cooper, T. (2006). The Responsible Administrator. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.


Equity   “demands remedies to redress historic injustices that have

prevented or diminished access in the first place . . . there can be no fairness without equality . . .” (Kranich, 2005)

Kranich, N. (2007). Equality and equity of access: What’s the difference? Retrieved on October 18, 2010 from the American Library Association Web site: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/iftoolkits/toolkitrelatedlinks/

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Justice and Social Equity   Equity is defined

  “to include not just race and gender but ethnicity, sexual preference, certain mental and physical conditions, language, and variations in economic circumstances . . . [therefore] multiculturalism and diversity . . . suggest this broader definition of social equity” (Frederickson, 2005, p. 33).

Frederickson, G. (2005). The state of social equity in American public administration. National Civic Review, 94(4), 31-38.


Bentham’s Utilitarian Theory

  government must ensure “the happiness of some [but] must be [willing] to sacrifice for the happiness of others;” in other words, “government must seek the greatest happiness of the greatest number” (Postema, 2006, p.113).

Postema, G. (2006). Interests, Universal and Particular: Bentham's Utilitarian Theory of Value. Utilitas, 18(2), 109-133.


Conclusion   “Ethics, then, tries to find a way to protect one

persons individual rights and needs against and alongside the rights and needs of others” (Gini, 2010, p. 347).

Gini, A. (2010). Moral Leadership and Business Ethics (2nd ed.) (G. R. Hickman, Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


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