Transcript corporations and employees - Mount St. Joseph University

CORPORATIONS AND
EMPLOYEES
Ronald F. White, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
College of Mount St. Joseph
Introduction
• Are there moral limits to what employers
can do to (or for) employees?
• Are there moral limits to what employees
can do to (or for) employers?
Stockholder Theory
• Corporations to Employees
• Employees to Corporations
Stakeholder Theory
– Corporations to Employees (and other
stakeholders)
– Employees to Corporations (and other
stakeholders
Issues
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Reciprocal Rights and Duties
– Problem of Monopoly• Corporate Monopoly
• Labor Monopoly (Unions)
Issues
– Whistle-Blowing
– Hiring and Firing
• Affirmative Action
• Employment at will
– Just Compensation
• Minimum wage
• Executive Compensation
– Theories:
» Patterned-merit, need, utility, equality
» Unpatterned- market-based
– Working Conditions
• Sexual Harassment
– Privacy- (drug testing, e-mail, etc.)