Reynaldo Marasigan                                         IT-ETHICS                                              March 19,2008

Book Review 12

Title: For Business Ethics  review12.doc 

Author:   Campell Jones

              Martin Ten Bos

The book is basically against business ethics, the author talks about how does the business ethics is a NO for them. In some way I agree to their points. According to them, one way of expressing it would be say something like, it is simply getting let down. Business ethics holds promise, in that it promises ethics and speaks of justice, but at the same time it seems compromised to its  very core, and seems to resist the very thin it advances.

The author points their problems in business ethics:

First Problem: Foreclosing Philosophy

Business ethics is that part of business education that makes the most explicit claim to be interested in philosophy, but if we look at the philosophy that is done in business ethics. It seems clear that twentieth century philosophy is completely excluded.

The fact the philosophy rises 100 years it is sometimes not applicable to the society today. The business ethics exist in such a way that sometimes it is affected and run by this philosophy that gives an indefinite way of decision making. We must update especially the business owners of what is really the trend in making decision making.

Second Problem: Foreclosing Society

Individualistic explanations of social action focus exclusively, or largely, on the characteristics of individuals, and ignore or downplay the role of social context.

Sometimes we view society as a whole, but sometimes we tend to see society in an individual persona. Like for example in a company, as society, it experience downfall and yet we solve it by targeting a specific person who are more responsible of the downfall. The society is basically the responsibility of each and one of us as part of this society. Also when we say society we have this thinking that society means problems and yet we don’t even mind that we are part of the society.

Third Problem: Foreclosing ‘The Ethical’

Some aspects of business obviously present ethical dilemmas, most people would agree that matters such as bribery, pollution and child labour raise ethical issues, and business ethicists do indeed deabae the rights and wrongs of these ethical dilemmas

More often than not we could not admit that when treating this kind of dilemmas we tend to deviate in what does it means. We treat it as basis of day to day processes that it seems that businesses is that perfect. We must be justifiable and studied narrowly to determine what really is ethical and what are the things or issues it addresses.

Fourth Problem: Foreclosing the meaning of business ethics

 Quite often business ethics text will provide a ‘definition” of business ethics that tells us what business ethics is supposes to mean. The problem with this is that business ethics means quite a lot of quite different things. In fact one of the major problems when we start looking at business ethics is that words that business ethics does not have transparent meaning.

 Learning the meaning of business ethics is not really the solution for a good business, because even the word ethics is vaguely define in each and every part of society. Yet we must be treated for us to understand what really it can do positively in our business

Fifth Problem: Foreclosing Politics

More often than not, business ethics is assumed to be something does not really trouble basic assumptions about the normal practices of business.

The word bureaucracy, globalization and capitalism does affect the business world. Still, the business should be treated differently for them in such time and such situation.

Sixth Problem: Foreclosing the goal of Ethics

Business ethics is often caught between two conceptions of what is for. On the other hand, it can be a reassuring and satisfying set of ideas that reminds us how to do the right thing.

Ethics is basically what the rules are. What can is moral to each and everyone.