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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Understanding the moral decision making in business ethics





According to an Ethic theorist, Kant; “in making a decision with regards to moral issues, we must be able to defend a moral decision. The decision must also have a universal moral value and if we can’t agree on the principle if we can’t see the principle being applied.”

In another words, we just can’t agreed to any decision made by saying that it is moral unless we can see the moral principles is applied.

According to Ruggiero’s view; there are 3 main things to be focused on an action which could be as a moral action.



1. Every action by someone good personally or professionally, could only be said moral, when it is found good from the human relationship context.


2. The effect of our action towards a good behavior is a priority in life


3. Any effort taken to reduce the degree of such value when decision is being made, it is considered immoral and this has been agreed by both Consequentialist and non-Consequentialist.

From here it is clear that morality of an action is referred to the impact on human relationship and the any effort to decrease the value is considered immoral.

Question arises, what happen if any action is related to environment and not directly to mankind? The answer is simple; does the environment relate or having relationship to the good life of mankind? If it does then it is related to human relationship.

Due to this understanding, it is important that at any action to be taken and at any course, the moral aspect must be the doctrine.
Note: Book on Ethics that we could use as reference as in the picture above: BUSINESS ETHICS, by William H Shaw; Publisher: Thomsan Wadsworth : RM35.00 ( at University Malaya- Pekan Buku, Perdana Siswa)

Week 3 and 4:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/Z01OZ295VnM3N0JFQlE9PQ

Week 7 lecture slides :
https://www.yousendit.com/download/Z01NbGtONmM5bEJjR0E9PQ