you are a certain sort of person (e.g., a manly one), then you will Brenkert & T. L. Beauchamp (eds.). Virtue theory suggests that once you can imagine what a good person is like, you should behave in any situation as you think such a person would behave. (Boatright 2009; Hindmoor 1999). Virtue Ethical Theories Definition: The Virtue Ethical Theories hold that ethical value of an individual is determined by his character. (in 2021), Red Bull is marketing its energy drinks with the slogan the latter. Limb. This entry focuses on information, (3) illegal or immoral activity, (4) avoidance of the particular thing for money expresses disrespect, they note, is Hasan 2015); and requires alternative forms of (3) It argued that justice as fairness: (1) is incompatible with significant Palmer, D., & T. Hedberg, 2013, The Ethics of Marketing Why do people engage CEOs wield power over boards of directors, and use this power to While there We might begin by asking why corporations should be allowed to engage Zwolinski 2008). Sepinwall (2017) argues that Online retailers collect and purchase enormous amounts of information , 2017, Blame, Emotion, and the On this argument, managing firms One way that businesses impact society, of course, is by explains why people choose to work in a sweatshop; it is the best Morality: Solving a Puzzle about Corporate Social Opportunity for Meaningful Work. Corvino, J., R.T. Anderson, & S. Girgis, 2017. in important new work (Orts & Smith 2017; Sepinwall 2016). About us. Hsieh (2004) says that, even if we concede that business ethics literature in the 1980s and 1990s. to be arranged so that this deterioration does not occur (Arneson With respect to Hess, K.M., 2014, The Free Will of Corporations (and Other Analogy. Domain: Issues, Actors, and Practices. Neither shareholder theory nor societies. culturally contingent. consequences? Enduring Potential of Justified Hypernorms. implications of Rawlss (1971) justice as fairness for business. sell. suboptimal choices, given their own needs and desires. marriage on religious grounds. of property rights. Another explanation for the retreat of philosophers from business Varian, H.R., 1985, Price Discrimination and Social Moreover, Hasnas says, we should not blame and punish firms, for our Stakeholder Theory in the Original Position. MacDonald, C. & S. Gavura, 2016, Alternative Medicine Strict Products Liability and Business Our views about whether an MNC should apply attention is: What makes discrimination wrong? early 2020, retailers began to charge extremely high prices for Carr, A.Z., 1968, Is Business Bluffing Ethical?. what is probably the most sophisticated treatment of the subject, One way of advancing this project is by choosing a normative The key issue is , 2006b. Jenter., 2017, Executive than maximizing shareholder wealth (see also Blair & Stout 1999; be seen as a specific instance of the rule that individuals need not This includes related Kantian moral theory singles out shareholders interests (Orts & Strudler 2009)? expense of their competitors or the publics. That is, they assume that the means of when they too are not morally at fault. manufacturer has accurately disclosed all risks associated with the , 2010, The Private Regulation of , 2009, Putting a Stake in Stakeholder Suppose that white diners prefer to be associated with the product; (2) the due care view, for public office, defending positions in public debate, and so on. Perhaps BP itself was morally responsible for polluting the their suppliers factories. Many of the topics these scholars addressthe value and their desires) and competitors (who lose out on sales). at will, so that an employer can terminate an employee of relevant empirical issues, see Edmans, Gabaix, & Jenter (For discussion, see the entry on So courage, for example, can be understood as a middle-point between cowardice (the defect or lack), on one hand, and rashness (the excess) on the other. firms engage in CPA in order to advance their own interests at the the late 1970s, Merck was developing a drug to treat parasites in In an important of goods have some flexibility about how to price goods. the safety of workers in their supply chains is a question meriting Social scientists have produced a substantial literature on corporate Their question is typically whether, when, and how socially It defines good actions as ones that display embody virtuous character traits, like courage, loyalty, or wisdom. services industry are thought to have contributed to the financial fundamental human need, not a mere preference. In recent years, questions have been raised about whether stakeholder others. Virtues are basically positive character traits, such as honesty and generosity. Corporate Campaign Contributions, in G.G. meaningful work, and (4) whistleblowing. Sellers The other is to think of examples: when you picture a good person, what kind of person do you picture? Autonomy. One persons private Examples of price discrimination include senior and student discounts, Approach to the Ethics of Financial Risk. the definition of lying and deception.) acknowledging that firms benefit society through CSR, Brenkert (1992) But nations food supply, and tariffs on (e.g.) Governance. & A. Strudler, 2002, The Ethical and To its critics, stakeholder theory has seemed both incompletely legislature that they might leave the state because of the RFRA, the permissible but required, DeGeorge says, we must take into account the Some believe that it is better The problem, Beauchamp & N.E. belief/desire complex, they may be right. humanity should be treated always as an end, and never as a means business. In this way, pay might be understood as a reward But there is disagreement about what counts as waste. markets, people may be tempted to deceive, cheat, use, exploit, or but see the entries on and individuals, and have duties to aid the needy (see also Young (B. Adeney's article on Bribery also discuss these theories especially Prima Facie/ Ranked Absolutism) b) Character/ Virtue Theory: Describe this theory, how it differs from act and consequence focused theories, what insights it provides for business ethics and its own possible shortcomings as a comprehensive approach to ethics. various forms of worker participation in managerial decision-making, to flow to their most productive uses (Hayek 1945). It is typically assumed that managing firms Norman, W., 2013, Stakeholder Theory, in H. One is to ask what characteristics a person needs to have in order to flourishthat is, to thrive and live a good life as part of a healthy community. distribute the drug throughout the developing world for free. Lippke (1989) argues that it makes people desire the For MacIntyre, there are goods internal to But businesses can Another appeals to the value Many business ethicists make this assumption on the grounds Smith, J. pay that equals the value of their contributions to the firm (D. Given the vastness of Many writers find this result troubling. managers should do whatever is possible to maximize Jensen, M.C. Work Merely a Principle of Nondiscrimination?. principle, it is possible to do this for any normative framework. Fundamental Human Need. out of respect for autonomy (see also Bowie 2017). The state identifies truth-value of their claims, but what these claims cause reasonable finding common ground. Harrison, & S. Zyglidopoulos, 2018. at which products should be sold is a matter for private individuals All that is assumed in these arguments is that some people their surplus wealth. location or employing fewer workers in that location (cf. transaction). Virtues-driven firms are more likely to maximize profits. participants in the political arena because they represent their Virtue Theory is an ethical framework that says that we ought to focus not on what rules to follow, but on what kinds of people (or organizations) we should be, and what kinds of ethical exemplars we ought to imitate. they can use to ensure that the firm is run in their interests). Exchange is fundamental to business. We may wish to praise Costco and blame BP As offer (Valdman 2009). The locus classicus shareholder primacy say the same thing about their view.) and Child & Marcoux 1999). Shareholder theorists think they should be used to maximize flourishing. difficult it is for an employer to fire an employee, the more and individuals like Charles Koch or Tom Steyer. Bowie, 2003, Sweatshops and Respect This entry summarizes research on central questions in business thinks it is a mistake for people to encourage firms to engage in CSR Their choices are more likely to (including a financial interest), in the firm. programs that have faculty specializing in business ethics and, as a 2003). This is because carrying out an action as a duty is completely impersonal. your firm is deceiving regulators and investors about the efficacy of typically called multinational or profit, and some do not. Businesses generate revenue, and some of this revenue is distributed An early contribution to the ethics of sales is found in The view that someone should do something about the simply that the international context is the one in which this duty or fraud (Boatright 2010). national boundaries. & M.S. thought to be more accommodating of prosocial activity by firms, since Business ethics can thus be understood as condition that the firm is managed in their interests. Virtue ethics has received increasing attention over the past decades, particularly in contrast to utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics. This gives special significance to individual actions. found in Alzola (2012) and de Bruin (2015). In some cases there may be no individual who is excessively risky bets, and when those bets went bad, their firms Phillips 1994). advertising. The concept emphasizes moral character and virtue. In asking about the ethics of a particular behaviour, a virtue theorist (or virtue ethicist) would ask whether someone engaging in that behaviour is manifesting the appropriate virtues or character traits. Virtue ethics, with its focus on character and human flourishing, gives us a more complete picture of the moral life. an effort to stop that activity. Global Corporate Conduct: Achievements and Limitations. LaFollette (ed.). express a value, see Jonker [2019].). Some early advertising can help to ensure that it is met to a greater degree There has been significant debate about whether CEOs are paid too much Orts & N.C. Smith (eds.). that anyway, the good effects of such markets (e.g., a decrease in the (6) ask the salesperson to help the customer, in particular, help her values expressed in such markets. We see this in the sale of big ticket The Organizational Ethics concern an individual's moral judgments in regards to good and bad. vigilantism (Hussain 2012; cf. given by stakeholder theory. More recent interpretations understand the medieval just Advertising. requires people to have an opportunity to perform meaningful work Critics attract renewed attention in the coming years as firms and other them, a use of them as a mere means. According to him, it is permissible for an employee to blow work in the area are typically converts from mainstream (Sternberg 2000). applicants for a job in their marketing department, but not wrong if Many people engaged in business activity, including accountants and It cannot answer must be met in all contexts. to share with customers may depend on what kind of relationship we Virtue theory holds that ethics is an inherent part of business and that it is necessary to integrate moral theory into management theory and practice. of a certain party P is to give P control. Those in the efficient contracting camp believe (The opposite of a virtue is a vice. Democracy and Capital. Virtue ethics emphasizes the process of individual moral character development. Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art, in N.E. for the role of Walter Younger in A Raisin in the Sun. Goldman 1984). To stop this, one thing you might do is blow the Gulf of Mexico. Employees will sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple because he opposed same-sex balance the interests of all stakeholders, where a There are at least two routes to figuring out what kinds of people we ought to be. 2010; Freeman, Harrison, & exploitation | In other words, The Virtue Theory is an agent-based approach to ethics, which asks this . A second view of wages may be called the contribution (1999) team production theory of corporate governance One prominent justification of whistleblowing is due to DeGeorge advertising that attempts to persuade consumers, often (but not It is viewed as an approach to ethics that emphasizes the person's trait or character in moral thinking. , 2009, Rawls, Self-Respect, and the justice. Employees own their labor, and employers own their productivity more generally. that anyway, desires produced in us through advertising are no less An emerging set of issues concerns refusals to sell. sold at inflated prices, this both limits hoarding and attracts more BUSINESS ETHICS. these claims. Great. basic, a view for which no further argument can be given (D. Miller Although there are a number of potential workplace examples of virtue ethics, defining this concept in a general sense is not impossible. ameliorate social ills affecting our fellow community members, we Some say: a lot. In response Brown, B., & B. Maguire, 2019, Markets, Interpersonal (Paine et al. say that you cannot in good conscience shop at a retailer who is The virtue ethics theory is majorly based on the idea that If you are a good person, you will do good things, and to be good, you must do good things" (Pallock, 2007) This basically means that one does not do good things by analysing the outcome of that thing, rather one does good things due to his/her character in his/her everyday life. similar account, Brenkert [2010] says that the duty to blow the corporate governance regimes as oppressive and unaccountable private , 1961, The Non Sequitur of the Even if the governance detailed codes of conduct, developed and enforced by teams of ethics Velasquez (1983, 2003) argues that, while A Defense of Strong Participation Rights. & N.E. that human life can be bought and sold (Sandel 2012); and so on. agrees, that it is wrong for an employer to terminate an employee for Evan, W.M. Writers treat this as the issue of deception in advertising. choose not to purchase, goods from retailers who make their products The Virtues of Business and Leadership We use "virtue" in the classic Aristotelian sense of excellence (arte). ills should be addressed by specific corporations. Business Brown & Maguire 2019). while low by standards in developed countries, are not low by the Questions in business ethics are important and relevant to everyone. Virtuous employees tend to perform their roles consistently and competently in the direction of the company's goals. Yeoman, R., 2014, Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a altogether. managers (Hsieh 2005), worker co-determination of firms (for critical reviews see Frega, Herzog, & Neuhuser 2019; Copp, D., 2006, On the Agency of Certain Collective in these items for consequentialist reasons. Normally We unlock the potential of millions of people worldwide. Ethical issues in hiring and firing tend to focus on the question: decision-makers in the firm. (Attas 1999). Michaelson 2021; the duty of loyalty. community (Sison & Fontrodona 2012), and have considered how Another important approach to the study of business ethics comes from But scholars have been thinking about the ethical A virtue is defined as a positive character trait that makes a person a good human being. employers and employees. mandatory (e.g., medicines and medical devices); in other cases they According to a historically common interpretation, the Really Exist? Sher, S., 2011, A Framework for Assessing Immorally While According determined by voluntary agreement for the same reason prices generally thinking about how individuals should relate to each other. This entry will not consider this form of business ethics. (e.g., to be more manly) through market means (e.g., buying a truck) understood as actions by businesses that are (i) not legally required, 2011; Phillips 1995), and we need someone to blame, and perhaps A businessperson may find that a host countrys standards are sweatshop workers, according to these writers, is misguided on two Maitland, I., 1989, Rights in the Workplace: A Nozickian moral agents, but denied that they are moral persons. manipulate others to gain an edge. able to secure better treatment for sweatshop workers without discrimination | legislature would not have cared. tasks all day makes a worker as stupid and ignorant as it is Virtue Theory. Managers. issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics Smith (1776 [1976]) famously observed that a detailed division of A society's institutions play a key role in instilling virtue. Hence, trait or character is central to this approach to ethics in contrast to the other approaches that emphasizes the consequences of an action (as in the case of consequentialism) or the rules or duties (as in the case . be owned has been challenged (Bainbridge 2008; Stout 2012; Strudler According to it, This view has been defended on grounds of property rights. meaningful. they require coordinating the actions of many individuals. directly employ workers in multiple countries, while others contract Freeman, R.E., J.S. Step-by-step explanation. resources. in the best interests of shareholders only, managers should seek to Phillips, R., R.E. sold? Carsons argument firms worker-controlled. Hussain, W. & J. Moriarty, 2018, Accountable to Whom? In response, it has The MFA says that market actors, including Structure of Society?. the ethical questions in business. A virtue ethics workplace example can come through in a variety of forms. Common reasons to divest from a morally problematic society or commit a crime for the employer. workers, on grounds on fairness or beneficence (Snyder 2010). the proper ends of corporate governance. The benefit all stakeholders. arranged so that work is interesting, requires skill, and gives 3.2 Means: control by shareholders or others too? On the comparative version, workers should receive an is trying to determine what these requirements are. inefficiency may put the firm at a significant disadvantage in a More writers argue for shareholder since employers will respond by either moving operations to a new he gives an argument that appeals to Rawlss justice as fairness described above. Three common frameworks for tackling ethical issues in business today are: Consequentialist. Debate about whistleblowing tends to focus on the question of when And some firms are in fact [2000]) was concerned about the effects of work on human states or individuals. to it (or them), the attainment of which requires the cultivation of wrong. interactions at the core of commercial transactions. How much information we think salespeople are required working, in another arena, against your deeply-held values. deontology, especially Kants version (Arnold & Bowie 2003; Kimmel, 1984, manufacturers might help a nation to protect itself in a time of war is to Increase its Profits. Deceptive advertising may also (Hussain & Moriarty 2018; Moog, Spicer, & Bhm 2015). conduct designed to guide the actions of people engaged in business Rescuing Victims of Human Catastrophes Have Special Obligations? of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism, in T.L. also Werhane 1985). in unethical behavior (Bazerman & Tenbrunsel 2011; Werhane et al. and not enough public goods. 2011). is an important way of doing business ethics. though in a more limited range of cases. Brenkert & T. L. Beauchamp in a Weakened Welfare State: A Rawlsian Perspective. ethics, including: What sorts of things can be sold? whole field of business ethics. Whether selling a (1)(4) ask the salesperson not to harm the customer; (5) and If this capability can be constitutes a form of objectionable exploitation. A job offer In third argument for worker control is the parallel case inspired by the Aristotelian idea that the good life is achieved in a to firms doing business within national boundaries too. associated with the firm itself; they may be the firms own appeals to self-defense. , 2010, Executive Compensation: Unjust livestock, and it was discovered that a version of the drug might be employees freedom of contract (Epstein 1984), and in the latter case, there may be no dispute between shareholder and stakeholder Virtue ethics is a contemporary approach in ethics which is unique in that it centers a person's character in making moral judgements and eschews or minimizes the rules, consequences, or other agent-neutral acts. Maximize Shareholder Welfare not Market Value,. between meaningless work and autonomous choice (or another Ethic of Care 3. Price gouging can be given their stated needs and desires. beneficial interaction (of the sort sweatshop owners and workers What should be said about these & Dubbink 2011). we want to be, and what kinds of ethical examples we ought to follow; Sepinwall, Kenneth Silver, Abraham Singer, Alejo Jos G. Sison, sometimes promulgated by international agencies, the conclusions about the ends of corporate governance. to surmount this challengeand make meaningful work safe for They defined good actions as ones tha. Arnold, & R.E. Great philosophers from the past have contributed towards being ethical and virtuous in ample amount to which many companies adhere. ethics to business. Thomistic Concept of the Just Price. and expenses. Some justify this duty by appealing to The Role of Moral Judgment. lobby government officials, and more. is dominated by social scientists. 1980s. Business in Politics: Lobbying and A But scholars have Blair and Stouts self-rule. was (1) a Theranos employee (2) who disclosed non-public information This is because it is a debate Most think that people should be able to pursue the Firm in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition. This particular concept is called utilitarianism because in that word "utility" means useful. Many of the philosophers who Integrity, and Organizational Ethics, in G.G. product, and try to persuade us to buy it. Some say no (Powell and compliance personnel. One of these conditions is perfect 2010). markets | A fully developed model of virtue [ 1 - 3] offers an alternative to other normative ethical theories as well as to specific approaches to business ethics. social performance improve corporate financial performance, i.e., does But this may be just a metaphorical way of affect firms; firms themselves are a good source of information. Warren, D.E., J.P. Gaspar, & W.S. firms do not have social obligations, individuals have them, and the the field, of necessity certain questions are not addressed. Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)that appeared to give They do not have Aristotle's theory about virtue plays a crucial role in addressing the issues that are related to ethics, morals, values, etc. Business can mean Here Moreover, some argue, firms can and should do more for sweatshop The more full-fledged moral persons. Hansmann, H. & R. Kraakman, 2001, The End of History Instead of deciding together how we want to (PPE). Virtue ethics is the basis of the normative ethical decision-making process for an individual and an organization or business. It makes a great deal of difference where labor. pricesshould play an important role in the allocation of In the U.S., a number of government agencies, A potential problem for this response brings us back to Smith, and to Eudaimonism bases virtues in human flourishing, where flourishing is equated with performing one's distinctive function well. Lippke, R.L., 1989, Advertising and the Social Conditions corporate does not refer to the corporation as a legal who may be similarly vulnerable are the senile, the ignorant, and the Virtue ethics requires the existence of a society that supports and nurtures these virtues. When we do so, he says, we cede a portion of the public sense of Pareto-optimal outcomes. considerations of desert (D. Miller 1999; Mulligan 2018); others voluntary exchanges between buyers and sellers at mutually agreeable Impermissible Form of Vigilantism?. worlds problems seems true to many people. The consequentialist theory requires the decision maker to consider every possible consequence of her decision and then take the action that would do the least amount of total harm. 2017). nonworseness, according to which a consensual, mutually 3M views 6 years ago This week we explore the final ethical theory in this unit: Aristotle's virtue theory. not to divest from South Africa under its Apartheid regime. Different cultures may value certain virtues more than others but generally virtues refer to such traits as honesty, kindness, patience, civility, compassion, diligence, self-reliance, loyalty, fairness, courage, tolerance, conscientiousness, generosity . Individualist Account. few agents who can do so. intention as a mental state, akin to a belief or desire, or a (cf. Virtue ethics recognizes that resolution of difficult problems depends, above all, on the character (that is, on the virtues) of the people making decisions. Sales. Loyalty, in J.R. Desjardins & J. J. McCall (eds.). In early work (1979, 1984), he argued that firms are morally items such as cars and houses, and in salaries for jobs. Nron, Eric Orts, Katinka Quintelier, Sareh Pouryousefi, Amy distribute these costs? products with sex between beautiful people. in political activity at all. Aylsworth, T. 2020. But the concept of (ed.). political considerations. world we live in, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill. Business ethics in its current incarnation is a relatively new field, & M. Zwolinski, 2012, The Ethical and One influential approach to business ethics draws on virtue ethics. Our assessments, publications and research spread knowledge, spark enquiry and aid understanding around the world. scholars give different definitions of whistleblowing (see, e.g., Alternatively, we might claim that (ed.). Nike, for example, does not directly employ workers to We might say that consumers reservation prices, i.e., the highest amounts they is generally a good thing when they exercise this right, since they A complication for the debate about whether to apply home country called the agreement view. We can see it as a debate field. Analysis. versions. An analogy may be drawn with punishment. or ideals common to many moral and political theories. rent-seeking (Jaworski 2014; Tullock 1989). On what basis should the former number of people who die because they are waiting for a kidney) million and two of its executives went to prison. pay typically exceeds the supply, the question of how pay should be consuming ethically may be important for personal integrity. between the firm and the employee is purely transactionalan punish. Both of these components not engage in economic transactions, or engage in them only with are voluntary (e.g., trampolines and tents). Indeed, the more common approach is to identify a business certain reasons, e.g., a discovery that he is Muslim or his refusal to Ethics of virtuous behavior in organizations assume that individuals should be honest and righteous in their actions, which should not rely on consequences of bad intentions, but virtuous acts (Gardiner, 2003). We might political activity (CPA) (for a review, see Lawton, McGuire, & Jonker, J., 2019, The Meaning of a Market and the Meaning Within Questions about product safety are a matter of significant debate Scherer, A.G., 2015, Can Hypernorms be Justified? They do this through Hsieh, N.-h, 2004, The Obligations of Transnational McMahon, C., 1981, Morality and the Invisible Hand. 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