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COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
MGT 6370
Weeks and Topics
1. Ethics and Business.
2. Tauhidic paradigm of Business Ethics.
3. Ethical decision making framework.
4. Ethical theories- Utilitarian, Deontological and Virtue Ethics.5. Ethical corporate culture.
6. Mid-trimester exam
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COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
MGT 6370
Weeks and Topics
7. Corporate Social Responsibility.
8. Ethics of Workplace Relationships- Employer and Employee Rights
9. Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
10. Ethics in Marketing11. Business, Environment and Sustainability
12. Corporate Governance- Conflicts of Interests, Excessive Executive
Compensation, Insider Trading.
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COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
MGT 6370
Assessments
1. Final examination 30%
2. Mid-trimester exam 20%
3. Case Analysis (Group)- Presentation+Report 20%
4. Analysis from Islamic Perspective (Group)- Presentation+Report 20%
5. Ethics Reflection (Individual) 10%
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COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS
MGT 6370
Group Presentations
1. To form 8 groups with a minimum of 4 members.
2. Presentations will begin in Week 3
3. 2 presentations each class; 1 on Analysis from Islamic Perspective
and 1 on Case Analysis.4. Each presentation will be given 30 minutes.
5. Marks for presentations are based on peer evaluation by
representatives of other groups.
6. Bonus marks of a maximum 3% is allocated for participating in the
Q&A/discussion sessions after each presentation (subject to thesubmission of Individual Participation Form)
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Chapter 1ETHICS AND
BUSINESS
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
After exploring this chapter, you will be able to:
1. Explain why ethics is important in the business environment.
2. Explain the nature of business ethics as an academic discipline.
3. Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social
responsibility.4. Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related
norms and values.
5. Distinguish legal responsibilities from ethical responsibilities.
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PURPOSE OF OUR DISCUSSION:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Practice: To give you opportunities to "practice" values integration
and ethical reasoning processes in case experiences.
Understanding: To offer you a deep understanding of the role you
play in forming organizational culture and the means by which you
can impact it in a positive manner. Reinforcement: To reinforce the resources available to you if
confronted with ethical situations.
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IS THERE A VALUE SHIFT?
Milton Friedman- The only social responsibility of a business is to
increase its profits
Greed is good
Business ethics course in an MBA programme will be the shortestcourse in the curriculum
Why explore ethics in business?
Because
Ethics Failures = Business Failures
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WHY IS ETHICS IMPORTANT IN THE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT?
Consider the range of people who were harmed by the
collapse of Enron.
Stockholders lost over $1 billion in stock value.
Thousands of employees lost their jobs, their retirement funds,
and their health care benefits.
Consumers in California suffered from energy shortages and
blackouts that were caused by Enrons manipulation of the
market.
Hundreds of businesses that worked with Enron as suppliers
suffered economic loss with the loss of a large client.
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WHY IS ETHICS IMPORTANT IN THE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT?
Enrons accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, went out of business as adirect result.
The wider Houston community was also hurt by the loss of a major
employer and community benefactor.
Families of employees, investors, suppliers were also hurt.
Many of the individuals directly involved will themselves suffer
criminal and civil punishment, including prison sentences for some.
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The consequences of unethical behavior and
unethical business institutions are too serious
for too many people to be ignored.
Multiply the harms by the dozens of other
companies implicated in similar scandals and
one gets an idea of why ethics is no longer
dismissed as irrelevant.
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STOCKHOLDERS V.S. STAKEHOLDERS
The decisions made within a business firm will affect a lot of
people.
Ethically responsible business decision-making must move beyond a
narrow concern with stockholders, and consider the impact that
decisions will have on a wide range of stakeholders.
A business stakeholder will be anyone who affects or is affected by
decisions made within the firm.
Failure to consider these additional stakeholders will have a
detrimental impact on those stakeholders, stockholders, and on the
firms long-term sustainability.
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WHY CARE ABOUT ETHICS?
Unethical behavior creates financial and marketing risks.
A company can go out of business, and its employees can go to jail,
if no one is paying attention to the ethical standards of the firm.
Consumer boycotts give even the most skeptical business leader
reason to pay attention to ethics.
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Malaysian Regulatory Framework
o Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance
-introduced in 2000 in the aftermath of the 1997/98 East Asian crisis
-revised 2007 and 2012
-disclosure based as opposed to rules-based
o Capital Market Services Act (2007)
-investors protection against false trading, stock market manipulations and the
use of manipulative and deceptive devices.
-power to remove from office any chief executive or director or bar such
person from being a director if he is unfit
-imposes a mandatory duty upon auditors and specific employees to report
breaches of securities law and the rules of the stock exchange
-power to act against directors and officers who cause wrongful loss to their
company; falsification of financial statement
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Malaysian Regulatory Framework
o Bursa Malaysia Listing Requirement
o -Examples of provisions;
-Requiring all Audit Committee members to be non-executive directors
-Mandating the internal audit function and direct reporting to the audit
committee-the right of Audit Committee to convene meetings with external auditors,
internal auditors or both, excluding the attendance of other directors and
employees of the company-full disclosure on compliance/non-compliance
to MCCG
o Company Act 1965+amendments-legal basis on which companies are formed, operated and managed.
-sets the rules on how directors and shareholders can exercise their rights
--examples of provision to remove conflict of interest; interested directors are
not permitted to participate or vote; disclosure of interests in contracts;
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Does Business Ethics Have Rwards
While the headlines are going to all the guys who are doing it
wrong, there is a very strong corps of people who are really
committed to doing it right. Part of doing it right is you're not doing
it to get headlines. You're doing it to really make a difference in the
lives of people.
-- Georgetown College President Bill Crouch, speaking at a business ethicsconference sponsored by the Ethical Leadership Institute. ("Strong Ethics
Help Businesses Succeed, Conference Speakers Say," AP, Mar. 25)
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WHY CARE ABOUT ETHICS?
A firms ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage.
Managing ethically can also pay significant dividends in
organizational structure and efficiency.
Trust, loyalty, commitment, creativity, and initiative are just some of
the organizational benefits that are more likely to flourish withinethically stable and credible organizations.
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BUSINESS ETHICS AS ETHICAL DECISION
MAKING
Decisions which follow from a process of thoughtful and
conscientious reasoning will be more responsible and ethical
decisions.
What is the point of a business ethics course?
An ethics course will not change your capacity to think, but it couldstimulate your choices of what to think about.
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BUSINESS ETHICS AS ETHICAL DECISION
MAKING
An ethics class strives to produce more ethical behavior among the
students through careful and reasoned decision-making.
A process of rational decision-making, a process that involves
careful thought and deliberation, can and will result in behavior that
is both more reasonable and more ethical.
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WHAT IS ETHICS
Ethics involves what is perhaps the most monumental question anyhuman being can ask:
Ethics is, in this sense,practical, having to do with how we act,
choose, behave, do things.
Philosophers often emphasize that ethics is normative, in that it
deals with our reasoning about how weshould act.
How shouldwe live?
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Ethics of PERSONAL INTEGRITY VS. SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
This fundamental question of ethics can be interpreted in two ways.
"We" can mean each one of us individually, or it might mean all of
us collectively.
In the first sense, this is a question about how I should live my life,
how I should act, what I should do, what kind of person I should be.
This meaning of ethics is sometimes referred to as morality, and it
is the aspect of ethics that we refer to by the phrase personal
integrity.
How shouldwe live?
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Ethics of PERSONAL INTEGRITY VS. SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
In the second sense, How should we live? refers to how we live
together in a community.
Business ethics is concerned with how business institutions ought to
be structured, about corporate social responsibility, and about
making decisions that will impact many people other than theindividual decision-maker.
Examining business institutions from a social rather than an
individualperspective, and therefore referred to as business ethics
for social responsibility.
What should I do? How should I act?
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ETHICAL VALUES
A companys core values, for example, are those beliefs and
principles that provide the ultimate guide in its decision-making.
Individuals can have their own personal values and, importantly,institutions also have values.
Values =
Those beliefs that incline us to act or to choose in one way
rather than another.
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DISTINGUISHING VALUES
One way to distinguish various types of values is in terms of theends that they serve.
Financial values serve monetary ends, religious values serve spiritual
ends, aesthetic values serve the end of beauty, legal values serve law,
order, and justice, and so forth.
Different types of values are distinguished by the various ends served
by those acts and choices.
So, how are ethical values to be distinguished from these other types
of values? What ends are served by ethics?
Ethical values are those beliefs and principles that impartially promotehuman well-being.
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LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES VS.
ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The law provides a very important guide to ethical decision-making,but legal norms and ethical norms are not identical nor do they
always agree.
Over the last decade, many corporations have established ethics
programs and hired ethics officers who are charged with managingcorporate ethics programs.
Much good work gets done by ethics officers, but it is fair to say that
much of this focuses on compliance issues.
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CANT THE LAW ANSWER THE QUESTION
OF RIGHT OR WRONG?
Whats good about this approach?
Whats challenging (negative) about this approach?
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ETHICAL THEORIES
There are guidelines that can provide direction and criteria forethical or responsible decisions
philosophical ethics- utilitarian, deontological and virtue ethics
Religious ethics- e.g. Islamic ethics
Ethical theories are patterns of thinking, ormethodologies, to help us decide what to do.
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REALITY CHECK
ETHICS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD
A 2010 survey published by Corporate Responsibility Magazineindicated that two thirds of companies said that at least one of their
products is marketed by means of ethics-themed messaging.
About one third of companies said they had actual evidence that
attention to corporate responsibility had improved their bottomlines.
International comparisons:
Just over one third of U.S.-based companies said they employ a dedicated
corporate responsibility officer.
But nearly two-thirds of European and Asian companies had such a position. And about half of companies based in Canada did.