COMM 315 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Robert Latimer, Business Ethics, Freaked
5 Dec 2018
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Law: if it"s not written it"s not law. Ethics: norms, cultural values if behaviour results in the greater good then it"s ethical. Class exercise: trying to define legal versus ethical (class asked to provide examples of where legal/illegal/ethical/unethical meets): Ethical: stopping at a red light, paying taxes, paying > minimum wage, abortion (still on the books as l a g e. 1 codify = (1) to reduce (laws, rules, etc. ) to a code. (2) to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. As business managers our responsibility is to maximize shareholder value, and how this can conflict with our ethics. Try to reconcile the two: business ethics conflicts with personal ethics throughout years. Class exercise: describe the opposite gender in terms of stereotypes: Stereotyping results from prejudice (pre-judging, judging without knowing: prejudice: assign a characteristic to a person that you don"t know because of a.
