Discussion Assignments:
This week’s discussion activity focuses on corporate governance issues from the perspectives of shareholders, employees, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders.
Discussion Activity 6 – Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Propose a recent (within last 3 years) business ethics case that you are familiar with; alternatively search on the internet or among the following resources one business ethics case:
- http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm?fam=BUSI
Ethics Cases – Ethics Resources – Markkula Center for Applied Ethics – Santa Clara Universitywww.scu.eduCase studies and scenarios illustrating ethical dilemmas in business, medicine, technology, government, and education - http://web.tepper.cmu.edu/ethics/aa/arthurandersen.htm
- http://business-ethics.com/category/csr/page/2/
Discuss the case relying on the classical business ethics approaches, including:
- Deontology (norms): Ethics of rights, of justice;
- Axiology (values): Ethics of values, care;
- Teleology (results): Utilitarianism etc.
Discuss this case using the following Corporate Social Responsibility approaches:
- Normative CSR: Critical Theory, Corporate Governance, Controls;
- Values based CSR: Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Performance;
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