What is ethical behaviour?
What is ethical behaviour?
-Instrumental values- are preferences about the means for accomplishing these ends.
Ø Alternative Views of Ethics
1.Procedural justice
2.Distributive justice
3.Interactional justice
ØCultural issues in ethical behavior:
- Ethical behaviour is behaviour that is appropriate. It is basically based on morals. Ethical behaviour is the right way to behave. It is choosing the right and good instead of bad or wrong.
- Legal behavior is not necessarily ethical behavior.
- Most of the ethical problems in the workplace come up when people are asked to do something that violates their personal beliefs.
- Personal values help determine individual ethical behavior and these values are general beliefs about what is appropriate behavior.
- Such values are:
-Instrumental values- are preferences about the means for accomplishing these ends.
Ø Alternative Views of Ethics
- Utilitarian view of ethics — greatest good to the greatest number of people.
- Individualism view of ethics — primary commitment is to one’s long-term self-interests.
- Moral-rights view of ethics — respects and protects the fundamental rights of all people.
- Justice view of ethics — fair and impartial treatment of people according to legal rules and standards.
1.Procedural justice
2.Distributive justice
3.Interactional justice
ØCultural issues in ethical behavior:
- Cultural relativism
- Cultural universalism
- Critics of this approach say that it is a form of ethical imperialism, where they attempt to impose one’s ethical standards on other cultures.
- QUOTE- “an ethical dilemma becomes even more difficult when you overlay the complexities of different cultures and values systems that exist throughout the world.”-Former Levi Strauss CEO Robert Haas