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moral relativism in business want to design a car. The car needs to be light weight, and at the same time powerful, safe, and fuel efficient. As my engineer works at his drawing board, the results of field tests and mathematic equations come back that conclude it is impossible for a vehicle to be all of these things. Sacrificing weight to gain fuel efficiency decreases power and safety. Making a more powerful vehicle by increasing horsepower requires larger components, and a more substantial frame to mount the power plant. As a result the fuel efficiency is decreased significantly.
Then one day, my engineer came with a wonderful suggestion. We needed to change the physical laws of gravity, Newton's laws of motion, and the coeffiecnt of wind resistance. Then the forces which are keeping the car from being light weight, powerful, safe and fuel efficient would be modified in such a was as to allow the creation of the vehicle of choice. I told my engineer to clean out his desk.
While this example seems extreme, the same situation exists in the business world as organizations attempt to create their own moral codes or ethical paradigms by which to operate their business. The organization wants to be able to be self serving, while at the same time serving the needs of the community. The organization...
The heart of the issue is morals an ethics. Morals and ethics are not able to be adjusted to suit the needs of one group to the exclusion, or at the expense of another. Just as the laws of gravity and physics cannot be bent, so the laws of moral and ethical behavior within an organization cannot be bent without creating adverse repercussions.
Solomon strikes the proverbial nail on the head when he discusses the myth of an amoral business. A business cannot exist in an amoral environment. An amoral environment assumes that people's choices have no consequences. An amoral environment, and a perspective of ethical relativism, assumes that any set of choices are just as good for the people involved as any other set of choices. If these choices serve my organization today, then the ethics are the 'best for the organization.' However, organizations are built on people, and the people in the organization are affected by the ethics of a decision. The people need to be treated within the context of moral and ethical boundaries if they will be able to build trust between themselves and the organization, and thereby contribute to the organization's…
Ethical Relativism Allen Bloom wrote one of the most controversial books of the late-20th Century, in which he denounced the demise of the core curriculum at elite U.S. universities and it replacement by what he considered to be a vague sort of postmodern relativism from the 1960s onward. As he understood it, this new liberal worldview held that no cultures could be morally superior to any others and that anyone who
The fact that the video went on Youtube is not correct, but in the end we must value if this harmed the woman's image or not. Looking at the recording we notice that the face of the woman is not visible. One can not even tell if it is a woman or a girl, since the camera was too far in order to record details. This means that it
But ultimately, in practice, relativism in action is saying that no system of ethics has been valid for all time, and relativism and subjectivism are constantly evolving in creative dialogue with history and other circumstances. For example, perhaps a long time ago, a division of labor between the sexes made sense, when brute force was necessary for survival, to catch game and to defend cities, and when women had
Cultural Diversity and Ethical Relativism Europe and the United States are cultures where issues of sex and sexuality can be discussed freely and openly in the course of the day. Evidently, carrying out research on sex and sexuality may be easier or hard. In other cultures such as the African, discussing issues related to sex and sexuality is a taboo. These topics have been prohibited among women or youth. For this
Ethical Systems: Relativistic Before discussing any ethical system it is important to understand what the terms ethics and ethical systems mean. Trevino & Nelson, (2007) define ethics as "the principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or organization," and the right action, or moral behavior in a particular situation is determined based on ethics, whereas, ethical system refers to the underlying ethical principles used by an individual in making
The main concern in virtue ethics becomes about a person's moral character. When people choose to develop their moral character, better virtues will be created, and thus there will be more people acting in virtuous ways in all aspects of their lives -- and this includes how they treat all animals. One example to be considered when thinking about how a person with a strong sense of virtue might behave