BAET 20300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Rights, Prima Facie
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Business managers ought to be concerned with at least six specified groups stakeholders: a) owners, employees, customers and clients, suppliers, creditors, and the community. Prima facie: make sure our decisions have acknowledged as many of them s possible. However, way we prioiize them way differ based on context: final obligation is determined relative to circumstances, but it does not imply relativism. 5 step model for making difficult ethical decision a) b) classification. Ex: self-improvement vs. justice (in employee layoffs) c) d) Not every solution is ethically viable: decision on a course of action f) (universalization kant is what you decided a guiding principle, can it set precedents?) 1. classification : a) stakeholders: governments, refugees, citizens, militia workforce (border control, immigration already an issue in european countries before refugee crisis, already a problem for governments to handle b) Id of conflicts of obligations: government"s obligations to its own citizens, moral rights.
