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In the context of global warming, debate the appropriateness of the price mechanism as the primary democratic tool of resource allocation.
Critically evaluate Heidegger’s notion of the ‘enframing of technology’ in terms of its contribution to debates concerning global economic growth rate forecasts.
Discuss the motion that ‘consumer social responsibility is as important as corporate social responsibility’.
How effective are market mechanisms such as carbon trading in contributing to sustainability goals?
Critically evaluate the possibility of sustainability in the current capitalist (consumerist)economy.
Critically assess the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.
Discuss the relationship between institutions (such as the UN), corporations, governments and individuals, regarding sustainability issues.
Participate in debates concerning various initiatives regarding sustainability.
Debate the ‘enframing of technology’ mindset that represents one of the major obstacles to moving towards more sustainable activities, practices and processes.
Who should be the main beneficiary of the profits from the selling of the new product?Should a patent be created? If so, what is to be patented, the plant ingredient, the gel? Who should be the owner
Why is it important to consider who designed the ‘royalties model’, and how it will be administered and managed in the future?
Who decides how the royalties will be used?
Has the researcher profited from the free care given by the tribe when she was in pain? Would this be ethical?
Is it ethical for students and professional researchers to travel to developing countries to extract knowledge developed by indigenous tribes, then profit from this knowledge?
How should the relationship between pharmaceuticals and indigenous populations be regulated?By whom? What criteria should a ‘good practice’ framework contain?
Is knowledge treated and protected differently when produced by a company/university in a developed country than when an indigenous tribe produces it? Is this ethical?
Is this a new form of colonialism and exploitation?
Compare and contrast 10 approaches to ethical thinking.
Describe the implications of different ethical theories for businesses, organisations and management.
Apply the theories to ethical issues in business, organisation and management.
Can you develop a categorical imperative that would be appropriate for this case?
Would prima facie obligations be more helpful? If so, what would they be?
Are there any personal characteristics that so far have not been mentioned that you would regard as virtues and that might contribute to addressing the issues raised in the case?
How relevant to business and management is a Kantian approach to ethics?
Discuss the use of child labour in factories in developing countries from two different ethical perspectives (you might choose between virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, Rawls’theory of justice or
It is sometimes argued that a major flaw of utilitarianism is that it is only concerned with maximising the total amount of good and is not concerned with the distribution of that good between people
How might an organisation implement the practices implied by discourse ethics?
Define values and distinguish them from attitudes and beliefs.
Explain the idea that a set of values may be fragmented or integrated.
Explain how traditionalists, modernists, neo-traditionalists, postmodernists and pragmatists may have different perspectives on their values; and consider which position might explain their own
Understand how values, acting as heuristics, affect decision making and judgement about what is ethical.
The fable implies that managers’ responses to value issues at work may change as their careers progress. In this fable can you detect the periods when Chris’s approach was:(a) traditional,(b)
Compare the traditional view of values, as exemplified, for example, by the work of Rokeach, with the view that values emerge from a process of sense making. Which view might be more helpful in
How might people with different sensibilities (traditional, modern, neo-traditional, postmodern and pragmatist) understand the nature and role of values in organisations?
What criticisms can be made of a postmodern view of organisations and management?Are they justified?
‘The commonly accepted idea that management should define and publish a set of organisational core values may create as many problems as it resolves.’ Discuss vigorously.
Compare rational and heuristic models of decision making (that is to say contrast system 1 – thinking fast, with system 2 – thinking slow, as Kahneman (2011) terms them]. How might the heuristic
Loyalty or integrity: which should be the most important to organisational employees?
Analyse a resource allocation decision that has been taken in an organisation by reference to the six resource allocation heuristics.
What role do emotions and value play in an individual’s decision making on ethical matters?
Is there an effective ‘business case’ for corporations acting in a socially, ethically and environmentally responsible way?
Compare and contrast the four approaches to the involvement of stakeholders’ business decision making (classical-liberal, pluralistic, corporatist and critical) outlined in this chapter.
How should a company decide which interest groups should be treated as stakeholders and which should not?
What can we learn about business ethics issues at work by studying the stories in which they are reported?
Identify the good, tragic, comic, satirical and farcical elements in the way in which people and organisations deal with matters of ethics and morality.
Explain the basic features of stakeholder theory.
Evaluate the business case for business ethics and the validity of its claims.
Give an account of the various arguments about the moral status of business, organisations and management.
Describe the range of ethical and moral issues that arise in management, business and organisations.
Distinguish between ethical, moral and legal wrongdoing and assess the importance of a particular misdeed.
Analyse the complex consequences and motives that typically attend ethical and moral issues in management, business and organisations.
Does the use of the fund as a means of meeting the society’s own purpose, of remaining a mutual institution, detract from the worth of its activities?
Was British Sugar right to forgo the efficiency and cost benefits that could have been gained from a seven-day working week?
Did the banking sector generally, and the banks in particular, have a responsibility for this unregulated savings industry? Should they have paid more into the Farepak compensation fund? Does the
What are the arguments for saying that knowledge that is medically beneficial to humanity should not be private property?
What action do you think companies should take when they find their suppliers use child labour contrary to their company policy? Why do you think Gap destroyed the garments made by the unofficial
Was David Shayler’s whistleblowing justified?
Were the British authorities acting in a socially responsible way in choosing the offence David Shayler was charged with?
Why do you think the training partner acted altruistically when, by not supporting the trainees, he might have better met the (selfish) needs of the firm?
Are chief executives inclined to selfishness? If they are, is that a problem?
Is the high pay of top ranking professional footballers more morally acceptable than that of CEOs and bankers? If so, why?
Does it matter if the gap between top incomes and average incomes widens if everyone is earning more?
Do the oil companies have a moral obligation to maintain fuel supplies in a country?
Should the decision whether or not to provide these drugs to MS sufferers be based solely on clinical grounds or should cost-effectiveness criteria also be considered? What influence should powerful
It is probably impossible for those without detailed knowledge to come to a definitive view on the Dizaei case; but it does raise a range of interesting issues.
Does an individual case, such as that of Ali Dizaei, suggest that an organisation is institutionally racist despite its policies and principles?
To what extent do formal process of discipline and grievance exacerbate rather than solve problems of discrimination?
What is a fair balance between interests of the owners of a company that provides a public utility and the interests of the customers? Was Railtrack right in its approach? Will the structure of
In your opinion did Shell lie?
If you believe it did what were the factors and influences that may have caused it to lie?
Is this a good news story because the regulatory agencies punished Shell?
Why did Shell’s shareholders get so vexed about the corporate governance issues?
What changes in corporate governance, if any, might be necessary?
Is it better to retreat and live to fight another day or to take a stand on a matter one sees as an injustice?
Can a white lie be acceptable to protect one’s privacy?
In what circumstances might it be right not to tell the whole truth?
Neo-institutionalism is a theory which argues that societies have templates of formal and informal rules, values and acceptable ways of behaving; and that organisations in those societies fit in
Can a greedy person be a good visionary and corporate leader?
What ethical problems might flow from dual-voting structures and ‘super shares’?
Conrad Black was the effective owner of Hollinger International; could he not do as he wished with his property?
What rights, if any, did or should the minority shareholders have in such companies?
Have you ever manipulated your expenses or used organisational resources for personal benefits?
Should companies accept being placed at a competitive disadvantage by following the spirit as well as the letter of the law?
Was the general practice (rather than the particular practice of Dr van Velzen)of retaining organs without proper consent a case of actions being ethical but illegal?
Is corporate bullying as common as personal bullying? Is it more or less of an ethical wrong than personal bullying?
Were the consultants exercising their market power legitimately or were they bullying the hospital management?
How easy is it for supply chain partnerships, which are proposed as a new and better way to manage procurement, to become abusive relationships? How might this tendency, if true, be prevented?
To what extent should people be protected against their own ignorance and frailties? (This by the way is a standard revealing question because it gives away the feelings of the writer – so you
Is there a litigation culture developing in other regions of the world following US precedents? Is it a bad thing?
What are the longer-term consequences of not confronting behaviour such as that discussed in the case study?
Had Ford’s strategic attitude to safety fears concerning its vehicles changed in over 20 years?
In what situations do you think it might be justified to break, or defy, the law, to end an injustice?
In what circumstances might it be right to break the law in an effort to prevent a company behaving in a way that is legal, but, in the eyes of some, immoral?
Discuss the proposition that companies should behave in a socially responsible
Are there degrees of lying? Can some forms of lying be acceptable in business and
How would you assign responsibility for the VW scandal? What should have been done differently and by whom? In September 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was
Who are the stakeholders in this case? How were the interests of each stakeholder represented? In September 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was ordering a
Is it fair to expect any employees, including professionals such as engineers and accountants, to confront management over directives that they believe are unethical?
What changes to the VW board would you recommend that might help prevent future scandals?
The codetermination principle was created to ensure that employees have a role in managerial decision making, thus creating a more democratic workplace. What are the benefits of this model? What are

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