Ethics and Social Responsibility

ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Ethics and Social Responsibility

Basically the course Ethics and Social Responsibility was the study of ethics and which was the study of how one can conclude what is right from and what is wrong in our relationships with other individuals and other groups of people. We studied the basic Ethical standards which are considered as the basic principles that guides how can people act. Ethics guides principles to of how to behave and how you can help people to put together moral options. At its mainly fundamental level, personal ethics includes how an individual uses moral principles, beliefs, and personal values to examine a situation, review which action are right or wrong, and finally make a decision which events or behaviors are right or suitable. So in order to explain what we have studied in the course is explained below.

1. Ethical Models/Rules/Views

There are different Rules/Views/Alternative Models of Ethical Decision-Making that are used to analyze the ethical decision making. These models/ Rules/Views are different for the individuals and are different for the managers which totally depend upon the characteristics of the situation. Cultures and other factors that influences the ethical decision making of a person whether he be an individual or manager working for an organization and making decisions for that particular organization. So for each of the situations there are some of the models/rules and views that helps an individual and the manager to help in making the ethical decisions for the company or the person.

a) Utilitarian or Consequential Rule: the ethics of a decision are based on the decision's consequences. A decision that carries the most good to the maximum number is the ethical decision. Like for managers they must recognize stakeholders and their apprehension, and then select the decision that does the least damage.

b) Moral Rights Rule: the ethical decision is the one that compliments and defend the basic rights of people. And for Managers they make decisions based on how they can save the harm that can affect the rights of stakeholders instead make decisions that protect the rights.

c) Theory of Justice or Legal Rule: the ethical decision is the one that take care of people and groups neutrally and moderately according to legal rules and standards. This model involves that ethical decisions are both Procedural Justice, or justice and reliability in processes and Distributive Justice, or justice in outcomes.

d) Integrative Social Contracts Rule: reproduce the power of culture on ethics. In this rule the ethical decision is the one that is based on obtainable cultural or ethical norms in industries and communities. Ethical Imperialism and Cultural Relativism two concepts which supports the idea of the rule.

2. Personal Perspective

According to me the best rule in the decision making process id the Utilitarian or Consequential Rule, which is the basically the ethics of a decision totally based on the decision's consequences. It simply means that a decision that delivers the good to the greatest number is the ethical decision. As this is the rule which can benefit the company and in person because in this rule we tend to decide on the basis of how much in return you get if you have to give up on basis of to get better.

I think for a company the best thing for a company when deciding is also to keep in mind the values of the organization and what you get in return as in how you can benefit your stake holders. From my perspective the most important thing you can give is be honest to the organization and make decision on the basis and keeping in view the ethical consideration which can benefit them as well as the organization.

3. Ethical Dilemma Recognition and Analysis

An ethical dilemma is when an incident arises that causes you to question how you should react based on your beliefs and deciding how to choose between right and wrong and it refers to a situation in which individuals have