ARGUMENTS FOR BUSINESS

ETHICS
THE ARGUMENT OF SCANDALS
 ARGUMENTS FOR BUSINESS ETHICS

THE ARGUMENT OF SCANDALS - The list of scandals: bribery in

the procurement of aircraft; explosions of highly substances in the
chemical industry; food contamination, etc.

THE ARGUMENT OF ECONOMIZATION - States that business

nowadays plays an ever more important guiding role for the whole
social life, that an “economization” of society is underway.

THE ARGUMENT OF GOOD BUSINESS – This is also called

“making the business case” for ethics and Corporate Social
Responsibility. In Asian countries, it says that ‘good business” and
“good ethics” go hand in hand.
 ARGUMENTS FOR BUSINESS ETHICS

THE ARGUMENT OF CHALLENGES

• an ecologically compatible economy, which allows all human
beings to live decently on this planet earth.
• an overcoming of worldwide poverty and unemployment.
• the abolition of discrimination according to gender.
• the establishment of relatively corruption-free business
environments.
• the shaping of just and fair international business reactions, not
biased by reckless competition and extreme power balances, but
promoting efficient and peaceful cooperation among all business
partners.
CLARIFICATIONS OF ETHICAL
CONCEPTS
“We live in an age of ethical confusion
and are prone to periodic outbreaks of
moral panic”.
-C. Tyler, 2000

This confusion that C. Tyler was talking

about can be faced in three different
ways: Ethical imperialism, ethical
relativism, and ethical skepticism.
ETHICAL IMPERIALISM
Attitude of the people,
organizations and government.

ETHICAL RELATIVISMS
Ethical values and judgments are ultimately
dependent upon, or relative to, one’s culture
and society, and there is no right or wrong,
moral or immoral, to follow the in terms
of a particular culture or society
(J. Desjardims, 2006).

ETHICAL SKEPTICISM
One cannot reasonably assess ethical
values and norms at all.
THE ARGUMENT OF SCANDALS
MORALITY: Practices and activities that are
considered importantly right and wrong, the
rules that govern those activities; and the
values that are embedded, fostered, and
pursued by those activities and practices.

ETHICS: Systematic attempt to make sense

of our individual and social moral
experiences, in such a way as to determine
the rules that ought to govern the character
traits concerning development in life.
RESPONSIBILITY
Reflects the rational
structure of human
existence.

THREE COMPONENTS OF
RESPONSIBILITY:
(1) The subject of responsibility
or who is responsible
(2) The content of responsibility
or for what one is responsible
(3) The authority toward whom
one is responsible