Homework

This assignment could bring you a maximum of three points from the seminar grade (see the file “Seminar grade”). Choose one of the following debate issues and discuss it in one page (300-350 words). You can also discuss another issue, but similar with these ones (a specific issue in the field of business ethics). For instance, you can find other cases on http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm?fam=BUSI or http://businessethicsblog.com/ (you can use the search engine on this blog to find a certain category). Choose the point of view that you support and try to give arguments for it. Try also to bring arguments against the opposite point of view. Try to use one or more of the ethical theories discussed (rule utilitarianism, act utilitarianism, deontological ethics, Kantianism, enlightened self-interest etc.) and to discuss the different results of using one or other of these theories. The homework deadline is May 30 (in electronic format by e-mail at [e-mail]) or your last seminar (in paper format). For those who will send their homework by e-mail, the file name (not the e-mail subject) should be in the following format: group_family name_first name (example: 113_Popescu_Dan). This would help me to manage the files. 1. Some of the investment funds, so-called “socially responsible” funds, have an investment strategy guided by the principles of social responsibility. Among others, many of such funds do not invest in tobacco and alcohol companies. Are such companies socially irresponsible because of their field of activity? 2. The business of a company consists in storing the crop in periods of plenty, in order to sell it with very high prices in periods of famine. How do you evaluate from a moral point of view this activity? 3. You are a manager in human resources and guide the process by which your company selects new employees. Your company has to select an employee for a computer analyst position. A certain applicant performs best in