Postmodern Ethics Theory
PREFACE
The word ‘ethics’ is derived from the Greek word ‘ethos’ meaning an individual’s character and a community’s culture. Business ethics is a fuzzy area. No universal sets of ethical principles exist and what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ depends on the circumstances. To instil ethical values into corporate and the employees that inhibit, businesses must have vision about what they exist for, shared by everyone connected to the business. The new focus on ethics is due to the boost, the ‘brand value’ with ethical behaviour. People prefer working for firms which are ethical and in turn are their assets An attempt has been made to study the following aspects: • • To examine the extent of agreement on ethical issues related to business. To study impact of personal characteristics and ethical behaviour of mangers in corporate. • To study the effect of cultural and gender issues on ethical behaviour of managers. Gender issues could not be analysed due to managers unwilling to give their names and details. A questionnaire (Appendix 1) was sent out to 500 managers and a response of 52% was there. The sectors approached were Software Industry, Engineering and Electronics Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Agriculture and Chemical Industry, Banking Industry, Foreign Industry etc. The thesis is entitled, “A Study on the Agreement of Ethical Issues of Corporate Sector”. Due to the untimely death of Dr. Druti Shah-Taylor of Cambridge University, U.K only 10 % of the responses was from there. The thesis is composed of eight chapters. Chapter I is an overview of ethical issues in corporate. The researcher made use of the libraries and institutions in Ahmedabad to present this overview which covers observations and theory to date.
Chapter II deals with the result methodology and describes the various industries approached and responses received. Statistical analyses applied to the data have been presented. Chapter III presents the data analysis of individual agreement
The word ‘ethics’ is derived from the Greek word ‘ethos’ meaning an individual’s character and a community’s culture. Business ethics is a fuzzy area. No universal sets of ethical principles exist and what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ depends on the circumstances. To instil ethical values into corporate and the employees that inhibit, businesses must have vision about what they exist for, shared by everyone connected to the business. The new focus on ethics is due to the boost, the ‘brand value’ with ethical behaviour. People prefer working for firms which are ethical and in turn are their assets An attempt has been made to study the following aspects: • • To examine the extent of agreement on ethical issues related to business. To study impact of personal characteristics and ethical behaviour of mangers in corporate. • To study the effect of cultural and gender issues on ethical behaviour of managers. Gender issues could not be analysed due to managers unwilling to give their names and details. A questionnaire (Appendix 1) was sent out to 500 managers and a response of 52% was there. The sectors approached were Software Industry, Engineering and Electronics Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Agriculture and Chemical Industry, Banking Industry, Foreign Industry etc. The thesis is entitled, “A Study on the Agreement of Ethical Issues of Corporate Sector”. Due to the untimely death of Dr. Druti Shah-Taylor of Cambridge University, U.K only 10 % of the responses was from there. The thesis is composed of eight chapters. Chapter I is an overview of ethical issues in corporate. The researcher made use of the libraries and institutions in Ahmedabad to present this overview which covers observations and theory to date.
Chapter II deals with the result methodology and describes the various industries approached and responses received. Statistical analyses applied to the data have been presented. Chapter III presents the data analysis of individual agreement
Bibliography: Utilitarianism The main philosophers of utilitarian theory are Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Ethics of Rights and Justice The theory has its roots in John Locke (1632-1714) philosophy