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BOH4M0 Management Leadership

BOH4M0 Management Leadership. Chapter 3: Ethical Behaviour and Social Responsibility. Chapter 3 Topic Overview. What is Ethical Behaviour? Ethics in the Workplace Maintaining High Ethical Standards Corporate Social Responsibility Organizations and Society.

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BOH4M0 Management Leadership

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  1. BOH4M0Management Leadership Chapter 3: Ethical Behaviour and Social Responsibility

  2. Chapter 3Topic Overview • What is Ethical Behaviour? • Ethics in the Workplace • Maintaining High Ethical Standards • Corporate Social Responsibility • Organizations and Society

  3. What is Ethical Behaviour?Warm-up Activity In your groups, answer the follow questions: • What are ethics? • Does being legal also make something ethical? Explain • Are Ethics and “Right and Wrong” the same thing? Explain • Are ethics absolute, black and white? Explain • Read the case given to your group and prepare a response to present to class

  4. What is Ethical Behaviour? • Ethics…the set of standards of good or bad, right or wrong, in one’s conduct set within a governing moral code.

  5. What is Ethical Behaviour? Laws, Values and Ethical Behaviour • Ethical and Legal are not the same • Some laws are unethical (Death Penalty) • Some unethical actions are not covered by the law (Making a personal phone on company time) • Ethics generally driven at the “society” level • Values-broad beliefs about what is appropriate behaviour-greatly influence what we consider to be ethical at a personal level

  6. What is Ethical Behaviour?4 Alternative Views of Ethics Utilitarian View • Delivers the greatest good to the greatest number of people • Concerned with consequences and extended consequences • A business is usually concerned non-human criteria: profits, efficiency and performance • An example of a utilitarian decision occurs when a manager lays off 100 people so they can save the jobs of 1000 others

  7. What is Ethical Behaviour?4 Alternative Views of Ethics Individualism View • Ethical behaviours which achieve long-term self-interests • Not by lying and cheating—these only work in the short term • Tendency to “push the limits” and run over “nice” people

  8. What is Ethical Behaviour?4 Alternative Views of Ethics Moral Rights View • Ethical behaviours that respect and protect fundamental personal rights • Locke’s “life, liberty and fair treatment under the law” • Workplace: privacy, due process, free speech, health and safety • Globally: human rights

  9. What is Ethical Behaviour?4 Alternative Views of Ethics Justice View • Ethical behaviours that treat people impartially and fairly according to legal rules and standards Perspectives • 4 Views but 8 perspectives: you can argue for or against a behaviour from each of these 4 views • Often one view will justify a behaviour while another will refute it

  10. What is Ethical Behaviour?Cultural Issues in Ethical Behaviour Cultural Relativism • Ethical behaviour is determined by a cultural context and there is no one right way to behave Universalism • Promotes the idea that ethical standards apply absolutely across all cultures Ethical Imperialism • Imposing your own ethical standards on other cultures

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