Conference paper
ETHICS APPLIED TO BUSINESS
Maja Žitinski-Šoljić
; The Polytechnic of Dubrovnik
Abstract
The author's central concern is how conflicts of interests and roles in business should be properly evaluated. Through the study and analysis of particular cases we realize that fundamental obligation of
business becomes the appeal to protect the environment, to establish economic justice and to overcome egoism, relativity, and even organizational misconduct in business management. The problem of confrontation of ethics with law, shows that the question of product liability includes thinking of everything that could possibly go wrong. Business ethics is not a theoretical science, it does not attempt to apply ethical principles violently, it rather helps us to refine our own
commitments, using the problem-based form of analysis to show what is desirable to do in an antagonistic situation in which we must be aware of more and less successful ways of handling problems.
Keywords
case study method; consumerism; ethical dilemma; intrinsic goodness; judgment; justice; deontology; duty; responsibility; utilitarianism
Hrčak ID:
209527
URI
Publication date:
22.12.1997.
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