PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chevrolet Malibu, Consequentialism, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1010
• Professor: Victoria Burke

Document Summary

Descriptive business ethic theories= seek to describe how ethical decisions are actually made in business, and what influences the process and outcomes of those decisions, explain what people actually do and attempt to explain why they do so. Not necessarily competing models but extensions of each other. All of these such models seek to represent two things (1) the different stages in decision making people go through in responding to an ethics problem in a business context and (2) the different influences on such process. It is suggested that jones" model provides the best model of ethical decision making. Jones bases his model on a four stage process of ethical decision making introduced by james. Jones suggests that these stages are intended to be conceptually distinct and that just because someone reaches one stage does not mean that they are going to move on to the next stage.