GMS 802 Chapter 1: GMS802- Chapter 1- The Language of Ethics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 802
• Professor: Jian Guan

Document Summary

Four goals: familiarize you with ethics how the term is used in conversations about decision, examine the theoretical background of ethics by exploring 3 main traditions of ethical making thought, develop ethics decision guides based on our discussion of ethical theory, provide tests of your decisions to help you improve the quality of your choices and your ability to defend those decisions in moral terms. Ethics is an uncomfortable topic for managers: managers suffer from moral muteness unease in using language of ethics in their role as managers, shy away from discussing ethical issues, find a way to redescribe them as bottom line economic problems rather than moral concerns, why the discomfort, view ethics as highly technical discipline requires an advance degree to decipher, involving blame and fault, idealistic endeavor management is often considered to be all about hard numbers and practical results.