PHIL 2600 Lecture 4: Unit Four Prof Notes
8 Feb 2017
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Making decisions in business ethics: descriptive ethical theories. Seek to describe how ethics decision are actually made in business, and what influences the process and outcomes of those decisions. Main factors in deciding the moral status of situation. Decision likely to have significant effects on others. Decision likely to be characterized by choice, in that alternative courses of action are open. Decision is perceived as ethically relevant by one or more parties. The role of normative theory in the stages of ethical decision making is primarily in relation to moral judgement. Moral judgements can be made according to considerations of rights, duty, consequences, etc. Commercial managers tend to rely on consequentialist thinking. However, the issue of whether and how normative theory is used by an individual decision maker depends on a range of different factors that influence the decision making process. Unique characteristics of the individual making the relevant decision.
