ADMN 3300H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Jigsaw Puzzle

• School: Trent University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: ADMN 3300H
• Professor: Sheldene Simola

Document Summary

Lecture 2 situating contemporary business ethics in historical context. Business context of our individual ethical decision making. No physical body to punish when a corporation breaks the law. Understanding the corporate context in which we are asked to make ethical decisions. Elements of this context that make it hard to make ethical decisions start exploring language uses the way we use language in relation to business or corporations: ex. Metaphors one can use to describe a business or corporation (telephone system far reaching, entity in itself; whale can swallow up everything around it; sports team) Part 2: uses of language that can obscure the ethical situations that arise in organizations in the video, at the outset, a lot of discussion of metaphors you could use to describe a corporation. Jigsaw puzzle, family unit, telephone system, eagle, sports team: sports metaphors and also war metaphors are very common in business, ex.