Business Ethics
The test of whether an act is legal is a common moral standard used frequently in business.
What is Positive Law
This analysis measures the impact of a decision on various groups and then asks whether public disclosure of that decision is defensible.
What is Stakeholder analysis?
The USA Patriot Act and airport security regulations are examples of this goal of the government.
What is the protection of the state?
The written document that establishes the structure of the government and its relationship to the people.
What is the US Constitution?
Imposes higher standards of behavior than those required by positive law and they must be followed even if those higher standards run contrary to codified law.
What is Natural Law
This economist said A corporate executive’s responsibility is to make as much money for the shareholders as possible, as long as he operates within the rules of the game.
Who is Milton Friedman?
These laws are devoted to protection of individuals and their properties.
Protection of the Person
Tripartite
What is a three part government?
This philosopher does not allow any resolution of an ethical dilemma in which human beings are used as a means by which others obtain benefits.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Shareholders, members of the community, and employees are all examples of this.
What is a stakeholder?
Food and restaurant inspections, mandatory inoculation, and speed limits on roadways are examples of this
What is the Protections of Public Health Safety, and Morals?
Being a two house body, congress is know as this.
What is bicameral?
This along with being fair is underlying basis of Kant's theory.
What is you have to want to do it for all the right reasons.
Flex time, Job sharing and telecommuting are all examples of the business fulfilling this.
What is an obligation to solve social problems?
Zoning laws and laws against theft are examples of this.
What is protection of Property?
Legislative, Judicial, and Executive.
What are the three branches of the government?
The idea that rational people, thinking through the results and consequences if there were not rules, would develop rules that would result in fairness.
What is Social Contract or Theory of Justice?
According to Milton Friedman, the responsibility of the corporate executive is to do this.
What is fulfill the terms of his contract.
Laws that govern the rights of individuals are example of this.
What is Protection of personal rights?
The powers given by the states to the national government.
What are delegated powers?