Sport Business Ethics - DeGeorge 1

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Sport Business Ethics - DeGeorge 1
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Introduction

• The Myth of Amoral Business
• purpose making a profit
• business is business
• ethical language is not language of business
• easier to deal with than value judgments

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Myth

• end product is the bottom line
• ignore the ethical
• breakdown in myth
• reporting of scandals/public reaction
• formation of groups
• concern via conferences, magazines, newspapers
• corporate codes and ethical programs

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American Business Value System

• shares American values
• rugged individualism
• negative aspects of competition
• pragmatism/freedom

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Freedom - life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

• wish for own good
• known whats best
• managers will do what is best
• masks the common underlying values

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System presupposes

• enter transactions
• satisfying needs
• free to use own resources to gain what we want
• free to make money - free to make choices

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Freedom of business

• based on values of...
• fairness
• equal opportunity
• pragmatism
• efficiency

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Vices of business

• Unchecked freedom
• seek own goals at expense of others
• greed blinds
• win by whatever means available
• unfair, manipulated, and forced competition
• leaves behind those who cannot compete or those
  who fail

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The Relation of business and morality

• The moral background of business
• business - human activity
• presupposes moral activity
• honesty
• honor agreements
• honor advertisements
• expect employers to be honest, respectful, and do
  job

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The Relation continued..

• The Foundation of Property
• Who owns what?
• Who should own?
• Why should they own
• 8 own 40 of earths resources
• 92 are asking by what right

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Relation...

• The business of business
• what mandates are necessary
• what moral codes should be followed
• how does cultural relativism effect?
• should it?

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Relation...

• Business and the law...
• corporate responsibility and the law
• individual responsibility/or lack of to the law
• morality versus the law
• what is the law
• what is morality
• what is the relationship of one to the other

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Relation...

• The changing mandate of business...
• What was.... the environment...the climate... the
  people.
• moral responsibility
• weighing moral and other values
• making moral decisions...

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The cases of ethics

• Descriptive
• Normative
• Metaethical
• Special
• casuistry

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Five kinds of activities - B.E.

• 1. Applying General principles to particular
  cases.
• 2. Doing Metaethics -
• analysis, reflection.
• Analysis of the presupposition of business
• property
• exploitation
• competition

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five...

• 4. go beyond the present task...to a greater
  understanding of philosophy and business..
• 5. praising the moral ideals and moral models...
• Goal -- approach moral problems systematically
  and with better tools.