The Fourth Wave: The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Orlando
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Corporate Manager ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Corporate Downsizing ◽  
Fourth Wave

Abstract:While the business ethics literature has devoted a tremendous amount of discussion in recent years to the question of whether the corporate manager has obligations to parties other than shareholders, it has failed to apply any of its insights to particular ethical concerns. This leaves the corporate manager with almost no guidance for resolving particular dilemmas he or she encounters. I bridge the gulf between theory and practice by focusing on the issue of corporate downsizing. I argue that corporate downsizing is, in many instances, morally contentious.

Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement

2015 ◽  
pp. 124-150
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Human Characteristic

The purpose of this chapter is on issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. In so doing, the purpose of this chapter will also analyze the paradigms of bioethics and (business) ethics and legality will be utilized in analyzing the issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. Human enhancement, used in this chapter, includes any activity by which we improve our bodies, minds, or abilities beyond what we regard today as normal. In relations to advantages in corporations and organizational settings, human enhancement, used in this chapter, means ways to make functional changes to human characteristic, also referred to as neuro-cognitive enhancements, beyond what we regard as typical, normal, or statistically normal range of functioning for an individual.

Ethical Concerns in Human Enhancement

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-144
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Organizational Settings ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Human Characteristic

The purpose of this chapter is on issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. In so doing, the purpose of this chapter will also analyze the paradigms of bioethics and (business) ethics and legality will be utilized in analyzing the issue of fairness and equity in corporations and organizational settings due to advantages received as a result of human enhancement. Human enhancement, used in this chapter, includes any activity by which we improve our bodies, minds, or abilities beyond what we regard today as normal. In relations to advantages in corporations and organizational settings, human enhancement, used in this chapter, means ways to make functional changes to human characteristic, also referred to as neuro-cognitive enhancements, beyond what we regard as typical, normal, or statistically normal range of functioning for an individual.

Elicitive Dramaturgy

Tandem Dances ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 103-135
Author(s):  
Julia M. Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Spectator

Chapter 3 suggests that with the emergence of immersive productions, wherein spectators now constitute a component of performances, a novel form of dramaturgical thinking has developed to account for the spectator as a mobile entity with agency. Elicitive dramaturgy is proposed as a dance-driven theory and practice of composing immersive performance affords spectators agency while simultaneously managing their contributions through carefully designed choreographic parameters. Three specific considerations of elicitive dramaturgical thinking are identified and analyzed, including how practitioners attempt to manage the degree to which spectators participate, the possibility that spectators can participate outside of the structures designed for them, and lastly, the ethical concerns of choreographing participation.

A 30-Year Historical Examination of Ethical Concerns Regarding Business Ethics: Who’s Concerned?

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Drover ◽  
Jennifer Franczak ◽  
Richard F. Beltramini
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Historical Examination

scholarly journals The Ethics of Employment-at-Will: An Institutional Complementarities Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Vikram R. Bhargava ◽  
Carson Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Employment At Will ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
At Will

Employment-at-will (EAW) is the legal presumption that employers and employees may terminate an employment relationship for any or no reason. Defenders of EAW have argued that it promotes autonomy and efficiency. Critics have argued that it allows for the domination, subordination, and arbitrary treatment of employees. We intervene in this debate by arguing that the case for EAW is contextual in a way that existing business ethics scholarship has not considered. In particular, we argue that the justifiability of EAW for a given jurisdiction depends on existing complementarities among the institutions that constitute the jurisdiction’s political economy. Notably, our view takes seriously the ethical concerns EAW critics have raised by showing how these concerns can be mitigated through public policy measures that do not require eliminating EAW.

scholarly journals The Anthropology of Business Ethics: Worth Thinking about!

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghislaine Gallenga
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Value Judgment ◽  
A Value ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Work Management

This article deals with epistemological thoughts about business ethics. My intention is to consider business ethics as a research subject in anthropology and not to judge the relevance of the morality or ethics: in other words, the integration of activities in a “common good” category. The article examines the philosophical ground of this notion and explores whether business ethics is related to this philosophical background. While, from an anthropological point of view, it is better to draw a value judgment from the notion of “business ethics” (applicability, truthfulness, intentionality, and so on), the argument presented here is that it is better to consider “business ethics” as a category of work management at the meeting point between theory and practice, and to observe in situ how this notion is used, articulated and circulated in the daily life of a workplace.

The Impossibility of the Separation Thesis: A Response to Joakim Sandberg

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared D. Harris ◽  
R. Edward Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Separation Thesis ◽  
Second Order Effects ◽  
The Way

Distinguishing “business” concerns from “ethical” values is not only an unfruitful and meaningless task, it is also an impossible endeavor. Nevertheless, fruitless attempts to separate facts from values produce detrimental second-order effects, both for theory and practice, and should therefore be abandoned. We highlight examples of exemplary research that integrate economic and moral considerations, and point the way to a business ethics discipline that breaks new ground by putting ideas and narratives about business together with ideas and narratives about ethics.

Why be Moral in Business? A Rawlsian Approach to Moral Motivation

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Toenjes
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Business World ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Core ◽  
Business Person ◽  
Thomas Scanlon

Abstract:This article puts forth the thesis that the contractualist account of moral justification affords a powerful reply in business contexts to the question why a business person should put ethics above immediate business interests. A brief survey of traditional theories of business ethics and their approaches to moral motivation is presented. These approaches are criticized. A contractualist conception of ethics in the business world is developed, based on the work of John Rawls and Thomas Scanlon. The desire to justify our choices in terms that others can be reasonably expected to accept, or at least in terms that others cannot reasonably reject, is identified and differentiated from other accounts of motivation. It is this desire that constitutes the core motive to be moral in business on the contractualist conception. Implications of this contractualist conception for the theory and practice of business ethics are then discussed.

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