Transcript When ethics travel

When ethics travel
The global environment
Looking at the company-type
Foreign Country Type
-does not apply home-country concepts to the countries
abroad
Empire Type
-applies domestic concepts and theories without
significant accommodation
Interconnection Type **
-we don’t project or defend a national identity of any sort
“interconnectiveness of companies transcend the
national” Issue of balance between local and global
Global Type
-Dominance of global over any national. There is no
cultural distinctiveness. The “all knowing multinational”
decides
Is bribery tipping?
• Hypernorms:
– Principles so fundamental that, by definition,
they serve to evaluate lower-order norms,
reaching to the root of what is ethical for
humanity. They represent the norms by which
all others are to be judged
• Hypernorm of necessary social efficiency: need for
institutions and coexistent duties designed to
enable people to achieve basic or necessary social
goods such as health, education, housing, food,
clothing and social justice
Illegitimate
norms
incompatible
with hypernorms
Hypernorms
Consistent Norms
Moral Free Space
Is bribery tipping?
• Consistent Norms
• Every society will have values that reflect
its culturally specific situation but would be
consistent with the hypernorms.
Is bribery tipping?
Moral Free space:
• Norms that are inconsistent with at least
some other legitimate norms existing in
other cultures. May be compatible but in
tension with hypernorms.
• Unique and strongly held cultural beliefs
Is bribery tipping?
• Illegitimate Norms
• When values or beliefs go beyond what
one considers allowable under generally
accepted hypernorms, they are considered
illegitimate norms.
So…Is bribery tipping?
From the ISCT perspective?
Foreign Country Type
Empire Type
Interconnection Type
Global Type