COMM 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Profit Maximization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 104
• Professor: Constance Friesen

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Ethics is an area of study dealing with what is right vs. wrong. Ethics refer to rules of conduct for a larger group, morals deal with personal feelings. Ethics (objective); morals (subjective: compare and contrast ethics with legality. Legal obligations are societal declarations of what must be upheld. Tend to be related to ethical believes of the nation. Compliance with the law is not necessarily ethical (think slavery) Legality alone cannot be the talisman of moral people . They both change constantly, one following the other: discuss what normative" refers to. Normative refers to a standard of how things ought to be", regardless of whether or not it is factual. Amoral actions are actions which lack moral consequences; amorality simply lacks moral sense (infants) Baby lab experiment (yale): children were able to identify the bad guy" and liked them less. Economic responsibilities legal responsibilities ethical responsibilities . They do not fit well with the others.