Amoral actions or events: those areas of

interest exhibiting indifference to and not abiding by the moral

rules or codes of society.; intentional - does not consider
ethical factors; unintentional casual or careless about ethical
considerations in business

Amoral management -

Business ethics - a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that

examines ethical principles and moral orethical problems that arise in
a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to
the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.

Compliance strategy - is set of policies, responsibilities and business

processes that set the way an organisation is managed, controlled and
administrated which achieves advantages for the organisation through its
configuration of business processes and resources within a challenging
environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill business
expectations.

Conventional approach to business ethics involves a comparison of a

decision or practice to prevailing societal norms

Descriptive ethics involves describing, characterizing and studying morality

(what is)

Ethical relativism - the theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms of one's
culture. That is, whether an action is right or wrong depends on the moral norms of the
society in which it is practiced.

Ethics - involves a discipline that examines good or bad practices within the
context of a moral duty

Feminist Ethics - an approach to ethics that builds on the belief that

traditionally ethical theorising has under-valued and/or under-appreciated women's
moral experience and it therefore chooses to reimagine ethics through a
holistic feminist approach to transform it.

Immoral management -

Intentional amoral management - Intentionally amoral managers may

observe ethical considerations in their personal lives like giving to charity or
condemning acts of violence. However, they believe that ethical standards
which require doing more than what is required by the law is unrealistic in
the tough competitive world of business.

Immoral actions or events: those areas

of interest where moral categories do apply and of are such a
kind as to be evil, sinful, or wrong according to some code or
theory of ethics.; a style devoid of ethical principles and active
opposition to what is ethical

Kohlbergs levels of moral development - constitute an adaptation of a

psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget.
Does moral reasoning necessarily lead to moral behavior? Kohlberg's
theory is concerned with moral thinking, but there is a big difference
between knowing what we ought to do versus our actual actions.

Is justice the only aspect of moral reasoning we should consider?

Critics have pointed out that Kohlberg's theory of moral development
overemphasizes the concept as justice when making moral choices.
Factors such as compassion, caring, and other interpersonal feelings
may play an important part in moral reasoning.

Does Kohlberg's theory overemphasize Western philosophy?

Individualist cultures emphasize personal rights while collectivist
cultures stress the importance of society and community. Eastern,
collectivist cultures may have different moral outlooks that Kohlberg's
theory does not account for.

Moral development - focuses on the emergence, change, and understanding

of morality from infancy through adulthood. In the field of moral
development, morality is defined as principles for how individuals ought to treat one
another, with respect to justice, others' welfare, and rights.

Moral management - Moral Management is a style of management that

places a value on moral and ethical practices.; conforms to high standards of
ethical behavior.

Normative ethics involves supplying and justifying moral systems (what

should be)

Unintentional amoral management - simply does not pay attention to the

concept of business ethics. He also does not give any serious thought to the
unethical consequences of business decisions which may appear amoral. For
example, producing powdered milk for babies may be amoral, but what is the
consequence of persuading poor mothers, who have no access to sanitary
potable water, to feed their babies with powdered milk boiled with unsafe
water?

Ethics - The discipline that deals with moral duty and obligation.

Moral Conduct - Relates to principles of right, wrong, and fairness in behavior.

Business ethics - Concerned with morality and fairness in behavior, actions, and
practices that take place within a business context.
- Is the study of practices in organizations and is a quest to determine
whether these practices are acceptable or not.
Descriptive ethics - Involves describing,

characterizing, and studying morality.

- Focuses on what is occurring.

Normative ethics - Concerned with supplying and justifying a coherent moral system
of thinking
and judging.
- Focuses on what ought or should be occurring.
Conventional approach to business ethics
- Based on how common society today views business ethics and on
common sense.
Ethical egoism - An ethical principle based on the idea that the individual should
seek to maximize his
or her own self interests as a legitimate factor
Ethical relativism - Picking and choosing which source of norms one wishes to use
based on what will
justify current actions or maximize freedom.

- A serious danger of the conventional approach to making ethical

judgment
Immoral management - An approach devoid of ethical principles and an active
opposition to what is
ethical.
- The operating strategy of immoral management is focused on
exploiting
opportunities for corporate or personal gain.
Moral management - Conforms to high standards of ethical behavior or professional
standards of conduct.
Amoral management - Intentional: Does not consider ethical factors.
Unintentional: Casual or careless about ethical factors.
Integrity strategy - Related to moral management; is characterized by a conception
of ethics as
the driving force of an organization.
Intentional amoral management - Dont think ethics and business should mix.
- Business and ethics exist in separate spheres.
- A vanishing breed.
Unintentional amoral management - Dont consider the
decision making.

ethical dimension of

- Dont think ethically.

- Have no ethics buds.
- Well-intentioned, but morally casual or unconscious.
- Ethical gears are in neutral.
Compliance strategy - is more focused on submission to
force; lawyer driven

the law as its driving

and is oriented not toward ethics or integrity but toward conformity with
existing regulatory
and criminal law