A634.5.4.RB - Is Marketing Evil? After reading the article concerning marketing ethics and business practices, it makes questioning a company and how they function reasonable and justifiable because many large corporations intentionally or unintentionally deceive their customers. However, do the guidelines make a difference to the marketers? This question is debatable because one does not want to believe a company or organization will intentionally deceive them and cause harm to the client. Farrell (n.d.) shared that it is important to understand how people make business ethics decisions in an organization. In addition, Farrell (n.d.) explained that the organization has to understand what drivers of behaviors are, and how those align with integrity and goals. A company can and should have ethical guidelines in place to guide their employees to uphold the best practice but that does not mean they will. There are several driving forces behind unethical practices, which push employee...
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A634.4.4.RB - Is Affirmative Action Ethical? Affirmative action, does it hurt or help the black community, the white community, employers, and society or does it place one party against another and draw a hard line in the sand? LaFollette (2007) explained that affirmative action is the practice of giving special consideration to minorities and women in hiring and school placement. There are two sides to this and each side has valid points to support their side, however; each side is fighting the other to prove their point instead of working collaboratively together to change the stigma and perception of affirmative action. On one hand, LaFollete (2007) explained that affirmative action is reverse discrimination and the program discriminates against whites simply because of their race. Which is just as wrong as discrimination and continues to separate individuals from coming together becau...
A634.3.4.RB - The Harder They Fall
A634.3.4.RB - The Harder They Fall How many times has the news reported that the CEO of a company let power and control consume them and they were fired because of unethical business practices? Adams (2013) shared a few examples from 2013 of the biggest screw-ups of that year; Ronald Johnson was the CEO of J.C Penny, he was the former head of Apple’s retail and former executive at Target, however; when he went to J.C. Penny he tried to implement changes before trying them, customers left and stocks fell drastically. Steve Ballmer was the outgoing CEO of Microsoft and followed behind Bill Gates; unfortunately, he did not recognize the shift from PC’s to smart phones and he failed to compete with Google, and their stock fell 36%. Finally, Chip Wilson was the former chairperson of Lululemon women’s clothing; he made several unethical remarks about women’s bodies and said in 2005 that third-world...
A634.2.4.RB - Theories of Ethics
A634.2.4.RB - Theories of Ethics Mastin (2008) defined deontology as an approach to ethics that focuses on the rightness and wrongness of actions themselves, as opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions (consequentialism) or to the character and habits of the actor. Deontology (2007) defined it as focusing on how we ought to treat each other, given that we are rational and autonomous beings. Deontology zeros in on what is right and wrong of an actual situation and what people should do; it is not focusing in on the consequences of an individual’s actions. On the other side, consequentialism is explained by LaFollette (2007) as a claim that we are morally obligated to act in ways that produce the best consequence. In addition, (2007) he explained that consequentialist must explain (a) which consequences we should count (b) how much weight or consideration we should give those that don’t count and (c) how we should use these considerations when ...
A634.1.5.RB - The Train Dilemma: When no Choice is a Good One!
A634.1.5.RB - The Train Dilemma: When no Choice is a Good One! When I read the dilemma, I struggled with what I would do because I am a mother and my heart would break having to make a decision between ending the life of a child or an elderly man. How does one decide who should live and who should die? How does one decide to kill one child or five innocent children who have their whole lives ahead of them? In the first part of the dilemma, one is facing the difficult decision to end the life of one child or five children. Natural instinct says to end the one child and save five because it is less difficult to accept the ending of one life rather than five. But what makes the five lives more important than the one life? I had to use logic of reason to make the decision for the first part of the question and pull the switch to end one life. ...