Professional Documents
Culture Documents
reading week
Topics to focus
Governance Discrimination
Principal (Agent-Problem) Glass Ceiling
Control Equality
Monitoring Fairness
Board of Directors Charter of Rights
Incentives Freedoms
Corporate Citizenship A.O.D.A.
Triple Bottom Line
Last week
Code of Ethics
Aspirational (virtuous)
State values & allow for assessment
Self-regulator
Contribute to empowerment & trust (core ethical values)
Made publicly available & thus can contribute to
improves relation with society (not just customers, or
those with a ‘holding’)
Today in the class
Reflection #3
Group assignment : any final questions?
Governance; equal opportunity; discrimination &
affirmative action
Chapter 6 & 8
Refection #4
Guest speaker
Reflection #3
Recommended Stages
1. Group: Identify core aspects of the business.
2. Group: Identify key ethical challenges the business
faces.
3. Individual: Apply frameworks to the challenges.
4. Group: selects a single ethical framework to use.
5. Individuals: write contributions to the code of ethics.
Group Project
Why go to newspaper?
Why consider similar businesses?
Where else might you look for information?
Presentation (Next Week)
Let’s consider
What is governance?
In whose interests are corporations governed?
What sort of business problem; (and thus, ethical
problem) does corporate government reflect?
Ownership and Decision-making
Why?
What sort of ethical concern does this distinction reflect?
Glass Ceiling, Glass Walls
Possible position:
In life, outcomes are not equal
On the other hand:
One of the ideals of democracy is equality of people.
Moral equality (pg. 136)
Personal differences should not be the bias for
treating people unfairly.
Fairness