Transcript Sport Business Ethics

Sport Business Ethics DeGeorge 1
Introduction
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The Myth of Amoral Business
 purpose:
making a profit
 business is business
 ethical language is not language of business
 easier to deal with $ than value judgments
Myth
end product is the bottom line
 ignore the ethical
 breakdown in myth
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 reporting
of scandals/public reaction
 formation of groups
 concern via conferences, magazines,
newspapers
 corporate codes and ethical programs
American Business Value
System
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shares American values
 rugged
individualism
 negative aspects of competition
 pragmatism/freedom
Freedom - life, liberty, pursuit of
happiness
wish for own good
 known what’s best
 managers will do what is best
 masks the common underlying values
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System presupposes
enter transactions
 satisfying needs
 free to use own resources to gain what we
want
 free to make money - free to make choices
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Freedom of business
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based on values of...
 fairness
 equal
opportunity
 pragmatism
 efficiency
Vices of business
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Unchecked freedom
 seek
own goals at expense of others
 greed blinds
 win by whatever means available
 unfair, manipulated, and forced competition
 leaves behind those who cannot compete or
those who fail
The Relation of business and
morality
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The moral background of business
 business
- human activity
 presupposes moral activity
 honesty
 honor
agreements
 honor advertisements
 expect employers to be honest, respectful, and do
job
The Relation continued..
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The Foundation of Property
 Who
owns what?
 Who should own?
 Why should they own
 8%
own 40% of earth’s resources
 92% are asking by what right
Relation...
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The business of business
 what
mandates are necessary
 what moral codes should be followed
 how does cultural relativism effect?
 should
it?
Relation...
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Business and the law...
 corporate
responsibility and the law
 individual responsibility/or lack of to the law
 morality versus the law
 what
is the law
 what is morality
 what is the relationship of one to the other
Relation...
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The changing mandate of business...
 What
was.... the environment...the climate... the
people.
 moral responsibility
 weighing moral and other values
 making moral decisions...
The cases of ethics
Descriptive
 Normative
 Metaethical
 Special
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 casuistry
Five kinds of activities - B.E.
1. Applying General principles to particular
cases.
 2. Doing Metaethics 
 analysis,
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reflection.
Analysis of the presupposition of business
 property
 exploitation
 competition
five...
4. go beyond the present task...to a greater
understanding of philosophy and business..
 5. praising the moral ideals and moral
models...
 Goal -- approach moral problems
systematically and with better tools.
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