5. Business Ethics - Kantian ethics
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- Created on: 23-06-17 15:27
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- 5. Business Ethics - Kantian ethics
- Categorical imperative
- Maxim of universalisation
- Businesses should have practices that are best for all businesses and can be applied to all
- Exammple
- Moving all call centres to India is impractical
- Example
- Giving all employees some shares can be made universal (e.g. John Lewis)
- People as ends
- people (customers, employees, etc) should not be ends, not used as a means to an end (e.g. profit)
- Against sweatshops
- Workers are not commodities/indispensable
- Supports Corporate Social Responsibility
- Criticisms
- It's not practical to put people over profits
- Businesses would fail
- Consequences are not considered
- It is not possible to run a business without looking at outcomes, especially if deciding if they're good or bad
- Kant says duties are unbreakable, but what if duties conflict
- e.g. to shareholders or employees
- It's not practical to put people over profits
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