ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corporate Social Responsibility, Fallacy, Atmospheric Sciences

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Helen Pogrin

Document Summary

**week 4: business ethics, corporate social responsibility, sustainability** Difficult to judge without an independent source of information. Precision and authority help to gauge accuracy: precision. General statements are less convincing than quantifies metrics. Using numbers and direct quotations increases precision: sufficiency. Unlikely that a claim can be supported by a single piece of data. Importance of the claim: potential damage caused if claim is incorrect, representativeness. The variety in the sources of information should match the variety in the population relevant to the claim. Single anecdotes, while compelling, may not represent the broader phenomenon: authority. Ofte(cid:374) do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:1005)st hand knowledge so must reply on others. Authority is increased with: special training, professional credentials, considerable experience. Potential missteps: fallacy of false appeal to authority, fallacy of argumentum or bandwagon effect. Reading: friedman the social responsibility of a business is to increase profit.