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Management Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive
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01/02/2011

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Business ethics
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The moral principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business.
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Cauz principles
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Ethical principles established by international executives based in Caux, Switzerland, in collaboration with business leaders from Japan, Europe, and united States.
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Compliance-based ethics programs
Definition
Company mechanisms typically designed by corporate counsel to prevent, detect, and punish legal violations.
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Corporate social responsibility
Definition
Obligation toward society assumed by business.
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Ecocentric management
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its goal is the creation of sustainable economic development and imporvement of quality of life worldwide for all organizational stakeholders.
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Economic responsibilities
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to produce goods and services that society wants at a price that perpetuates the business and satisfies its obligations to investions.
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Egoism
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An ethical system defining acceptable behavior as that which maximizes consequences for the individual.
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Ethical climate
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In an organization, the processes by which decisions are evaluated and made on the basis of right and wrong.
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Ethical issue
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Situation, problem, or opportunity in which an individual must choose among several actions that must be evaluated as morally roght or wrong.
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Ethical leader
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One who is both a moral person ans a moral manager influencing others to bahave ethically.
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Ethical responsibilities
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meeting other social expectations, not written as law.
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Ethical
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The system of rules that governs the ordering of values.
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integrity-based ethics programs
Definition
Company mechanisms designed to instill in people a personal responsibility for ethical behavior.
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Kohlberg's model of cognitive moral development,
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Classification of people based on their level of moral judgment.
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Legal responsibilities
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To obey local, state, federal, and relevant international laws.
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Life-cycle analysis (LCA)
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A process of analyzing all inputs and outputs, though the entire "cradle-to-grave" life of a product, to determine total enviromnental impact.
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Moral philosohpy
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Principles, rules, and values people use in deciding what is right or wrong
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Philanthropic responsibilities
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Additional behaviors and activities that society finds desirable and that the values of the business support.
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Relativism
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Philosophy that bases ethical behavior on the opinions and behaviors of relevant other people.
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Sarbanes-oxley act
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An act passed into law by congress in 2002 to establish strict accounting and reporting rules in order to make senior managers more accountable and to imporve and maintain investor confidence.
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Sustainable growth
Definition
Economic growth and development that meet present needs without harming the needs of future generations.
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Transcendent education
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 An education with five higher goals that balance self-interest with responsibility to others.
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universalism
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The ethical system stating that all people should uphold certain values that society needs to function.
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Virtue ethics
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Perspective that what is moral comes from what a mature person with "good" moral character would deem right.
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utilitarianism
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An ethical system stating that the greatest good for greatest number should be the overriding concern of decision makers.
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