Guidelines to Managing
Ethics in the Workplace
Craig P. Dunn, Ph.D.
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principles
outcomes
fairness
caring
liberty
character
sustainability
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Does the contemplated action:
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Conform to important principles?
Create more good than harm?
Lead to fair outcomes?
Promote caring relationships?
Advance personal choice?
Support personal ideals?
Contribute to sustainability?
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SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY 8000
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IV. SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS
1. Child Labour
2. Forced Labour
3. Health and Safety
4. Freedom of Association & Right to Collective
Bargaining
5. Discrimination
6. Disciplinary Practices
7. Working Hours
8. Remuneration
9. Management Systems
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III. DEFINITIONS
1. Definition of company
2. Definition of supplier/subcontractor
3. Definition of sub-supplier
4. Definition of remedial action
5. Definition of corrective action
6. Definition of interested party
7. Definition of child
8. Definition of young worker
9. Definition of child labour
10. Definition of forced labour
11. Definition of remediation of children
12. Definition of homeworker
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III. DEFINITIONS
7. Definition of child
Any person less than 15 years of age, unless local
minimum age law stipulates a higher age for work
or mandatory schooling, in which case the higher
age would apply. If, however, local minimum age
law is set at 14 years of age in accordance with
developing-country exceptions under ILO
Convention 138, the lower age will apply.
Any work by a child younger than the age(s)
specified in the above definition of a child, except
as provided for by ILO Recommendation 146.
9. Definition of child labour
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UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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Article 3.
Article 4.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited
in all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment.
Article 6.
Article 16.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion,
have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to
marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending
spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to
protection by society and the State.
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Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or
through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall
be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal
suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary
and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and
professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be
equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
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Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable
conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for
himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if
necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his
interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours
and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being
of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and
necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment,
sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children,
whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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What
might a principlebased approach ‘look
like’?
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Avoid
all appearance of
impropriety
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Do
not sacrifice the public
good for private gain
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Operate
at all times with
humility, never
underestimating your
capacity for self-deception
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Environmental Issues
Environmental Issues
2) It is alternately claimed that... "Nature is random,
contingent, blind, disastrous, wasteful, indifferent,
selfish, cruel, clumsy, ugly, struggling, full of suffering,
and, ultimately death?
This sees only the shadows, and there has to be light to
cast shadows.
Nature is orderly, prolific, efficient, selecting for adapted
fit, exuberant, complex, diverse, renews life in the midst
of death, struggling through to something higher."
Which view is correct? What are the practical implications
of embracing one or the other view?
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10) There seems to be a great debate as to whether or not
the environmental problems we face are related more to
issues of overconsumption or overpopulation. Leaving
this debate aside, what would be the policy implications
of defining the principle problem as one of
overconsumption? Of defining the principle problem as
one of overpopulation?
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4) Let us now consider the problem of
dualism:
"The Bible's discrete distinctions between
God, nature, and humanity form a core of
current scholarly thought on biblical
attitudes toward nature. Because God is
distinct from his creation, nature is
effectively secularized."
True?
5) Who are we? Are we part of nature, or
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5) The question of 'value' is foundational to
discussions of environmental issues. How
is a 'value' for the environment to be
determined? Can 'value' be measured
without reference to money? Is there a
way to establish value without being
homocentric? Consider the following: "If
I am right there is no theory of intrinsic
value that, in a parsimonious fashion,
can possibly meet the demands this
conception of an environmental ethic
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11) Let's return to the question of our 'nature.' There was a
time in our not-so-distant past in which overconsumption
was viewed as evidence of a moral lapse--that greed, in
short, was viewed as a moral vice. Now, however, we
have 'progressed' to the point at which greed is viewed
quite differently; consider the words of Gordon Gecko in
the movie Wall Street:
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in
fantasy, but in political and economic reality.
America…America has become a second-rate power.
Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare
proportions.
Now, in the days of the free market, when our country
was a top industrial power, there was accountability to
the stockholder.
The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great
industrial empire, did it because it was their money at
stake.
Today, management has no stake in the company!
…The new law of evolution in corporate America seems
to be the survival of the unfittest.
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Well, in my book, you either do it right or you get
eliminated.
…I am not a destroyer of companies.
I am a liberator of them!
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack
of a better word, is good.
Greed is right.
Greed works.
Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence
of the evolutionary spirit.
Greed, in all its forms—greed for life, for money, for
love, knowledge—has marked the upward surge of
mankind, and greed—you mark my words—will not only
save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning
corporation called the U.S.A.
Thank you very much.
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Is greed good, or is greed a moral vice?
9) We seem to accept as a matter of
course that human beings are 'naturally'
driven to acquire more and more. Is this
the case, or rather are we socialized into a
consumption mentality? What evidence
can you provide in support of your
position? Even if we are naturally
acquisitive, are we hopelessly so? What
would it take for us to adopt 'simpler'
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