Business Ethics
Is Business Bluffing Ethical?
1. Reading
The term ’bluffing’ is a US expression for trying to deceive opponents in a game situation. For example, if you are playing a card game and you hold a weak hand, you may want to make your opponents think you have a strong hand to help you win the game. A more academic term for this might be ‘deception’.
Can you think of any games or situations that involve ‘bluffing’?
Ethics and morality
In a general sense the term ‘morality’ is about how we see right and wrong in our actions and those of others. In a similar way the term ‘ethics’ is used in relation to behaviour or decisions that could be judged to be right and fair by some but wrong and unfair by others. We might agree that it is unethical to pay politicians to support particular policies in Parliament, or that it is unethical to buy products from companies that we know are cutting down the rainforests in Brazil.
Is it ethical for a government minister in the Home Office (where rules on immigration are made) to employ a cleaner working illegally without the appropriate the visa ?
Part 1: Carr
Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Carr: Section 1
Task 1. Reading
Read the first section of the Carr article quickly to get a general idea of the writer’s position. Do this without stopping to check vocabulary.
What is Carr’s idea of bluffing in business?
a. Business is a game with its own rules of right and wrong, but its standards are the same as that of society in general.
b. Bluffing is part of the rules of the game of business and it sometimes involves some form of deception.
c. Bluffing in business is lying and it should not be allowed to continue.
Task 2 :Vocabulary check.
Read more carefully and try to guess the meaning of these words in the text by reading the sentences immediately before and after. Choose the correct meaning from those given.
P3 ‘falsehood’…… a. the truth b. a lie c. a theory.
1. Reading
The term ’bluffing’ is a US expression for trying to deceive opponents in a game situation. For example, if you are playing a card game and you hold a weak hand, you may want to make your opponents think you have a strong hand to help you win the game. A more academic term for this might be ‘deception’.
Can you think of any games or situations that involve ‘bluffing’?
Ethics and morality
In a general sense the term ‘morality’ is about how we see right and wrong in our actions and those of others. In a similar way the term ‘ethics’ is used in relation to behaviour or decisions that could be judged to be right and fair by some but wrong and unfair by others. We might agree that it is unethical to pay politicians to support particular policies in Parliament, or that it is unethical to buy products from companies that we know are cutting down the rainforests in Brazil.
Is it ethical for a government minister in the Home Office (where rules on immigration are made) to employ a cleaner working illegally without the appropriate the visa ?
Part 1: Carr
Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Carr: Section 1
Task 1. Reading
Read the first section of the Carr article quickly to get a general idea of the writer’s position. Do this without stopping to check vocabulary.
What is Carr’s idea of bluffing in business?
a. Business is a game with its own rules of right and wrong, but its standards are the same as that of society in general.
b. Bluffing is part of the rules of the game of business and it sometimes involves some form of deception.
c. Bluffing in business is lying and it should not be allowed to continue.
Task 2 :Vocabulary check.
Read more carefully and try to guess the meaning of these words in the text by reading the sentences immediately before and after. Choose the correct meaning from those given.
P3 ‘falsehood’…… a. the truth b. a lie c. a theory.