Business Ethics and Consequentialism
Required Reading:
Read the following excerpt concerning the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarian ethics: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/#JerBen
Please read the following case study from the Markkala Center for Applied Ethics:
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier.html
Here is what really happened:
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/supplier_comments.html
Assignment:
In the Module 2 Case, you will discuss the utilitarian ethics that apply to the following business problem. In doing so, you will apply the Utility Test and your choice of five additional tests in a critical analysis of the organizational problem. Finally, you will compare and contrast which of the tests you have chosen (if any) are most responsive to the business problem.
, please address the following:
1) Specifically, what are the utilitarian ethics issues in this Case?
2) What would Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarianism, have said about this Case? How might Bentham’s suggestion that “We seek pleasure and the avoidance of pain…” apply here? Was Bentham right?
3) Apply Steps A through D of the Utility Test to the above case. Be sure that you carefully document each step in the process.
4) Choose one of the following five tests: Rights Test, Exceptions Test, Choices Test, Justice Test, or the Common Good Test. Click here: http://ethicsops.com/EthicsTestsLinks.aspx. Now, apply the test you’ve chosen to the above case. In your paper, be sure that you have fully written to each step in the test you have selected.
5) Compare and contrast the results you have obtained from the Utility Test (#1 above) and your choice of the five tests (#2 above). Which of the two tests do you believe is most informative, and why?
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