Principles of Managerial Moral Responsibility

Soule, Edward H.; Hedahl, Marcus; Dienhart, John W.

doi:10.5840/beq200919431

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“…The need to differentiate between the two grounds often goes unrecognized. Miller (2004) uses duty of 'rescue,' duty of 'beneficence,' and even duty of 'aid' interchangeably as grounds for people to provide aid or perform rescuing activities (See also Kamm 2000;Schmidtz 2000;Soule et al 2009). What is more, in so far as the distinction is made, there is a tendency to think that the duty of rescue is the natural-or only possible-ground of obligation for the bystander in relation to oMBS (Dunfee 2006; see also Scanlon 1998).…”

Section: Kinds Of Morally Bad States Of Affairsmentioning

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“…Beneficence contains mechanisms restricting the consequences of the obligation in terms of concrete actions agents must perform. Nevertheless, some authors think that the best ground for the bystander status in relation to oMBS must be the duty of rescue, in particular when we worry about overdemandingness (Dunfee 2006;See also Scanlon 1998;Soule et al 2009). In this section, we will briefly characterize the duty of rescue as a ground for bystander duties.…”

Section: The Duty Of Rescuementioning

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The Bystander in Commercial Life: Obliged by Beneficence or Rescue?

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2016

J Bus Ethics

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Liberalist thinking argues that moral agents have a right (or duty) to pursue an ordinary life. It also insists that moral agent can be bystanders. A bystander is involved with morally bad states of affairs in the sense that they are bound by moral duty, but for a non-blameworthy reason. A common view on the morality of commercial life argues that commercial agents cannot and ought not to assume the status of bystander, when confronted with child labor, pollution, or other overwhelmingly big morally bad states of affairs (oMBS). According to the common view, the agent will get overdemanded. In this paper, the overdemandingness charge is interpreted as a criticism of the liberalist position. According to this charge, bystander status must be given up in the market because otherwise the right (or duty) to pursue a personal life is crushed. In this paper, we demonstrate that the overdemandingness charge fails. It does not make sense if bystander status is grounded in the duty of beneficence. It would make sense if the status were grounded in the duty of rescue but that duty does not apply in relation to oMBS. The condition of 'subjective urgency' is not fulfilled. Hence, liberalist thinking can withstand the charge of overdemandingness and commercial agents cannot assume a right never to acknowledge bystander status (on account of the overdemandingness argument).

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Section: Kinds Of Morally Bad States Of Affairsmentioning

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Section: The Duty Of Rescuementioning

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The Bystander in Commercial Life: Obliged by Beneficence or Rescue?

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2016

J Bus Ethics

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“…Obviously here there are numerous circumstantial details that are bracketed from inclusion in this proscription (Soule et al, 2009). The definition of harm, type of harm, the degree of harm, the directness or indirectness of one's relation to another's harm, determinations of what counts as an intentional versus unintentional instance of causing harm, etc., are all facts that in any one situation involving harm to others would be relevant in determining whether someone ought to refrain from or alter her behavior.…”

Section: The Role Of Moral Principles In Business Ethicsmentioning

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“…USINESS ETHICISTS, like their colleagues in other applied fields, have recently argued for the importance of moral principles in guiding sound moral judgment (Michael, 2006;Soule, 2002;Soule, Hedahl, & Dienhart, 2009). This work highlights an affinity within academic business ethics to conceive of the process of moral judgment as closely tied to the prior validity and applicability of general moral principles.…”

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Understanding the Role of Moral Principles in Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective

Smith¹,

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2011

Bus. Ethics Q.

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Does effective moral judgment in business ethics rely upon the identification of a suitable set of moral principles? We address this question by examining a number of criticisms of the role that principles can play in moral judgment. Critics claim that reliance on principles requires moral agents to abstract themselves from actual circumstances, relationships and personal commitments in answering moral questions. This is said to enforce an artificial uniformity in moral judgment. We challenge these critics by developing an account of principle-based moral judgment that has been widely discussed by contemporary Kantian scholars. In so doing we respond to some basic problems raised by so-called "moral particularists" who voice theoretical objections to the role of principles as well as to contemporary business ethicists who have criticized principle-based moral judgment along similar lines. We conclude with some future areas of research.

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“…When two parties do not share one moral judgment, they hold different expectations and demonstrate different moral functioning. Each party may believe that their ways of doing things and thinking about things is the best, Soule, Hedahl, & Dienhart, (2009). React differently toward a banking dilemma.…”

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Bankers’ Personal Moral Thought Evidence

Kadomi¹,

Jaara²

2013

IJBM

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Many researchers claim that moral judgment is closely tied to the general moral principles, Graham, Sherman, et al. (2011), which are accused by being selectively used by workers of dissimilar general moral principles, Skitka, (2010). It is happening when they appealing to subjective preferences, dealing with moral claims seem to lack an obvious set of objective criteria or with a tricky problem domains. However, it also because individuals are vary in moral identity -that is, how much morally-relevant concerns define one's self-concept, Aquino & Freeman (2009).Workers general moral principles may guide judgment across a wide variety of situations, serve as a first step toward drawing a specific conclusion. In this paper, bankers respondents were presented with variations on a traditional moral scenario that asked whether it was permissible to achieve a selected banking issues that have no place in their banks codes of ethic. Workers moral judgment relies upon a suitable set of moral principles from which a particular judgments need to exist, Dancy (2004). A problem arises when respondents show different moral principles.The main objective of this paper is to investigate the type of morality bankers practice at workplace when they participate in achieving the common goals and objectives of their organization. The existence of workers with different moral principles could be counterproductive for banking management. The better understanding of these differences enabling to narrow its negative impact, and ensure integrity of ethical behavior to function effectively. The data were obtained from a distributed questionnaire to randomly chosen banks in Jordan. The results generally indicated that banking professionals are different in their moral philosophies. Some important managerial implications based on these findings were discussed.

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Principles of Managerial Moral Responsibility

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

The Bystander in Commercial Life: Obliged by Beneficence or Rescue?

The Bystander in Commercial Life: Obliged by Beneficence or Rescue?

Understanding the Role of Moral Principles in Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective

Bankers’ Personal Moral Thought Evidence

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