Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Good People Make Bad Calls
Ethical theories, stakeholders, governance, CSR, ESG, misconduct and bribery: what really drives right and wrong in business.
Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility · 50 questions
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1. A manager approves layoffs that hurt 100 workers because they save 1,000 other jobs. Which theory most directly supports this?
- Utilitarianism
- Virtue ethics
- Kantian deontology
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Answer: Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism judges actions by their consequences, choosing the option that produces the greatest total well-being.
2. Kant's categorical imperative tests a business practice by asking which question?
- Does it produce the most total happiness?
- Is it what most competitors already do?
- Could everyone follow it as a universal rule?
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Answer: Could everyone follow it as a universal rule?
Kant asks whether the principle behind an action could be willed as a law for everyone without contradiction.
3. Under Kant's ethics, what is wrong with deceiving customers even if it raises overall welfare?
- It treats them merely as a means
- It fails to maximize total happiness
- It breaks the firm's written policy
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Answer: It treats them merely as a means
Kant held that people must always be treated as ends in themselves; deception uses them as tools without their rational consent.
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