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4.1. Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
4.1. Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics
Social
responsibility and
managerial ethics
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demonstrate integrity
practice competently
exercise leadership
promote sustainability
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Utilitarian Rights
Integrated
Justice Social
Contracts
Which one does business mainly follow?
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The utilitarian believes that it is always right to
do the greatest good for the greatest number.
The “good” is whatever yields the greatest "utility”,
ie downsizing to save the company.
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Rights
Immanuel Kant
•each of us has a worth or a dignity that
must be respected
•humanity must always be treated as an
end, not merely as a means
•positive rights
•Helping others
•negative rights
•Duty to interfere
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Organisational Justice
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Classical/conventional view
Short term focus – profit motive
•focus is on owners and
management
•“defeat the competitor”
approach
Social
obligation
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• Public expectations
• Long-term profits
• Ethical obligation
• Public image
• Better environment
• Discouragement of further government regulation
• Balance of responsibility and power
• Shareholder interest - long-term
• Possession of resources
• Superiority of prevention over cure
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• Dilution of purpose
• Lack of accountability
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The collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Dhaka, where 1129 garment workers died,
caused outrage in the West, with many questioning the managerial ethics and social
responsibilities of multinational companies who are contracting out work to unsafe
factories in the developing world to produce their products.
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Individual characteristics
Personal values
• Personality influences
–ego strength
○Person’s convictions
–locus of control
○Degree to which people believe they control
their own fate
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Structural variables
Organisational Culture:
Source: F.R. David, “An Empirical Study of Codes of Business Ethics: A Strategic Perspective.” paper presented at
the 48th Annual Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, California August 1988.
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Four purposes:
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Issue Intensity
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Issue Intensity
1. Concentration of effect
• how many people are affected?
• example: HIH, Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac
2. Consensus of evil
• belief that this is good or bad
• example: shoplifting
3. Probability of harm
• will it affect people?
• example: trials of new medical treatments
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Issue Intensity
4. Immediacy of consequences
• immediate or much later?
• example: James Hardie, asbestos
5. Proximity to victim
• not in my backyard so don’t care
• example: plastic
6. Magnitude of consequences
• the degree of harm
• example: heart bypass v hip replacement
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