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This 5 page report discusses the issues brought up in a business journal relating to ethics, decision making, and management. The issue of 'craft ethics,' doing what the job requires, as opposed to personal ethics is covered, as well as how that process directly relates to decision making. No secondary sources.
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that allows for and essentially demands that corporate behavior be primarily determined by corporate goals, objectives, and needs. Business people determine their actions primarily based on the need to achieve
pre-determined goals and employees act to satisfy the needs of their superiors. These behaviors are further aggravated by the use of cost-benefit analysis, which eliminates the moral aspect of business
decisions. Similarly, team decision-making removes individual responsibilities to possible consequences. According to the article in the Winter 1995 issue of Review of Business entitled, "The seductive danger of craft
ethics for business organizations" by M. Neil Brown, Nancy Kubasek, and Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, such a mindset, as related to ethical behavior and decision-making has not proven to be either morally
redemptive or truly that secure. The authors point out throughout the article that human beings, their social constructs, their interpersonal relationships and more are not so neatly packaged or
defined. However, they also make the point that ethical enhancement and focus is essentially (and irrevocably) related to issues of degree and comparison. Another way of explaining it,
according to the authors, would be to recognize that instead of searching for the single "right" decision, it is far more important as a: "process for constructing business behavior that
we would be proud to describe to our grandchildren, absent the convenient balm of rationalization" (pp. 23). Clearly, decision-making serves as an essential component of such a process. Summary
and Analysis of Article Brown, Kubasek, and Giampetro-Meyer assert that it does not matter if an individual is either an absolutist or a relativist, basic moral rules apply in all
contexts of human interaction. The authors define "craft ethics" as a "form of ethical relativism." In other words, an individual who finds him/herself facing an ethical dilemma refers
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