United Methodist University Business Ethics Questions Discussion
Question Description
Business Ethics
Consider the following questions from your studies in business ethics. Use your own words and go into some detail when responding to each question; a 3-4 sentence response should be sufficient for most questions. You may refer to your notes from lectures, discussions, our text, and outside resources, but I am looking for your individual analysis in every response. Make sure to focus your responses on the ethical aspects of the issue in question and respond to all parts of the question directly. Back up your claims with good reasoning. Each question is worth one point; a total of 14 points can be earned.
1) What ethical dilemmas may be raised for businesses specifically due to expanding technological
abilities?
2) Read the piece from the Center for Ethical Business Cultures in the Supplement section called “Expectations”. Do you agree that there is a “Trust Gap” between business and the general public that needs addressing?
3) How could the public combat the type of corporate misdeeds featured in “The Corporation”?
4) There is a longstanding history of gender inequality in the U.S. workplace, including wage discrepancy.
Explain why this is not an acceptable situation.
5) What do you make of Rawl’s assertion that”… social and economic inequalities, for example
inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for
everyone, and in particular for the least advantaged members of society”?
6) Would Marx agree that issuing a stimulus check to laid-off workers would increase their human dignity?
7) What would be some important ethical considerations in protecting workers from COVID-19 in meat
processing plants?
8) What kind of moral obligations should employees be expected to hold towards their
employer/organization in today’s workplace?
9) Review the Minnesota Principles on Global Business Ethics in Supplemental Readings. Choose one
of the Stakeholder Principles (customers, employees, investors….), and discuss how businesses
might be convinced to follow the specific guidelines mentioned.
10) The goal of advertising may be seen as creating the compulsive desire to purchase a product. Is
this a problem that should somehow be controlled/regulated?
11) Describe the type of character most suited for organizational leadership, according to the Virtue Ethics
of Aristotle.
12) After reviewing “There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics” in Supplemental Readings, discuss how a
business organization might best succeed with a “Golden Rule” philosophy in its leadership.
13) Beyond concerns over COVID-19, what do you believe to be the most significant ethical issues facing
business today, and what would you suggest as a general approach to dealing with those issues?
14) Which ethical principle, concept, or theory you learned about will be the most useful to your future
ethical decision-making as a business professional?
Consider the following questions from your studies in business ethics. Use your own words and go into some detail when responding to each question; a 3-4 sentence response should be sufficient for most questions. You may refer to your notes from lectures, discussions, our text, and outside resources, but I am looking for your individual analysis in every response. Make sure to focus your responses on the ethical aspects of the issue in question and respond to all parts of the question directly. Back up your claims with good reasoning. Each question is worth one point; a total of 14 points can be earned.
1) What ethical dilemmas may be raised for businesses specifically due to expanding technological
abilities?
2) Read the piece from the Center for Ethical Business Cultures in the Supplement section called “Expectations”. Do you agree that there is a “Trust Gap” between business and the general public that needs addressing?
3) How could the public combat the type of corporate misdeeds featured in “The Corporation”?
4) There is a longstanding history of gender inequality in the U.S. workplace, including wage discrepancy.
Explain why this is not an acceptable situation.
5) What do you make of Rawl’s assertion that”… social and economic inequalities, for example
inequalities of wealth and authority, are just only if they result in compensating benefits for
everyone, and in particular for the least advantaged members of society”?
6) Would Marx agree that issuing a stimulus check to laid-off workers would increase their human dignity?
7) What would be some important ethical considerations in protecting workers from COVID-19 in meat
processing plants?
8) What kind of moral obligations should employees be expected to hold towards their
employer/organization in today’s workplace?
9) Review the Minnesota Principles on Global Business Ethics in Supplemental Readings. Choose one
of the Stakeholder Principles (customers, employees, investors….), and discuss how businesses
might be convinced to follow the specific guidelines mentioned.
10) The goal of advertising may be seen as creating the compulsive desire to purchase a product. Is
this a problem that should somehow be controlled/regulated?
11) Describe the type of character most suited for organizational leadership, according to the Virtue Ethics
of Aristotle.
12) After reviewing “There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics” in Supplemental Readings, discuss how a
business organization might best succeed with a “Golden Rule” philosophy in its leadership.
13) Beyond concerns over COVID-19, what do you believe to be the most significant ethical issues facing
business today, and what would you suggest as a general approach to dealing with those issues?
14) Which ethical principle, concept, or theory you learned about will be the most useful to your future
ethical decision-making as a business professional?
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