Good Corporate Citizen

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Good Corporate Citizen
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Corporate Citizenship is

• the adoption by business of a strategic focus
  for fulfilling the economic, legal, ethical
  philanthropic social responsibilities expected of
  it by its stakeholders, including
• business ethics
• social responsibility
• corporate volunteerism
• compliance
• reputation management

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Good Corporate Citizenship

• A) ETHICS IS PRESCRIPTIVE
• B) GCC MODELS AIM AT ACHIEVING FAIRNESS
• C) IMPORTANCE OF DILEMMAS
• CHOOSING BETWEEN 2 GOODS

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The Roles we play

• BEING A GCC WHO HELPS? (pp.4-5)
• A) MARKETING SPECIALISTS
• -ETHICAL ADVERTISING
• B) MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SPECIALISTS
• -PRIVACY ISSUES
• C) PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERTS
• -CORPORATE IMAGE
• D) FINANCIAL ANALYSTS
• -AN ETHICAL "BOTTOM LINE"
• E) HUMAN RELATIONS EXPERTS
• -ETHICAL HIRING PRACTICES

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Models

• AGENT OF CHANGE
• AGENT OF SOCIO-MORAL DEVELOPMENT
• IMPLEMENTER OF ETHICS PROGRAMS
• AGENT OF MORAL LEADERSHIP

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Models

• AGENT OF CHANGE

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Models

• AGENT OF SOCIO-MORAL DEVELOPMENT

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Piaget

• Motoric
• Egocentric
• Incipient cooperation
• Codification of rules

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Social/Moral Development

• Piaget argues that moral development is closely
  related with cognitive development
• for e.g., children have difficulties forming
  moral judgments until they get out of egocentric
  thinking and are able to assume anothers
  perspective
• rule-based games are a manifestation of concrete
  operations in childrens social interactions
• these games provide structures circumstances in
  which children balance the rules of society
  against their own desires
• methods for studying childrens moral ideas
• behavioral observations of games
• clinical interviews about rules and moral dilemmas

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Rules in marble games

• Piaget observed childrens rule-following
  behavior during the game of marbles (bilye)
• and asked the children what the rules meant to
  them
• alterability Can the rules be changed?
• historicity Have they always been the same as
  today?
• Origims How did the rules begin?

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Boys playing marbles

• Piaget observed how children actually played the
  game, and found that preschoolers typically
  played in an egocentric manner
• if 2 boys were playing, each would play in his
  own way
• they had little sense of winning, one might yell
  I won and you won too!
• after age 7, children tried to follow common
  rules that determine who wins
• at the beginning, Piaget found that children
  believed that rules were fixed and unchangeable
• they said the rules came from some prestigious
  authority, from the government or God
• after age 10, children were more relativistic
• they said the rules probably had changed over the
  years
• began to treat rules as social conventions that
  could be changed if the other players agreed

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Stages of moral development Piaget

• P. argues that moral development follows the
  childrens understanding about the rules of games

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Kohlberg moral development

• Modified and elaborated on Piagets ideas about
  moral thinking
• used interviews with individuals based on moral
  dilemmas (e.g., the Heinz dilemma)
• In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer.
  One drug might save her, a form of radium that a
  druggist in the same town had recently
  discovered. The druggist was charging 2,000,
  ten times what the drug cost him to make. The
  sick womans husband, Heinz, went to everyone he
  knew to borrow the money, but he could get
  together only about half of what it cost. He told
  the druggist that his wife was dying and asked
  him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But
  the druggist said no. The husband got desperate
  and broke into the mans store to steal the drug
  for his wife. Should the husband had done that?
  Why?

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Kohlberg moral development

• Found 3 kinds of morality that form a
  developmental order
• The preconventional morality the child shows no
  internalization of moral values, just based on
  punishment (stage 1) or reward/benefit (stage 2)
• Stage 1 (Heteronomous morality) (Age 4-7)
• obedience for its own sake
• involves deference to powerful people, usually
  the parents, in order to avoid punishment
• the morality of an act is defined in terms of its
  physical consequences
• Heinz should not steal the medicine because he
  will be put in jail

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Kohlberg moral development

• The preconventional morality
• Stage 2 (Instrumental morality) (Age 7-10)
• the child conforming to gain rewards
• although there is evidence of reciprocity and
  sharing, it is a manipulative, self-serving
  reciprocity rather than one based on a true sense
  of justice, generosity, or sympathy
• justice is seen as an exchange system you give
  as much as you receive
• Ill lend you my bike if I can play with your
  wagon.
• Heinz should steal the drug because someday he
  might have cancer and would want someone to steal
  it from him

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• The conventional morality the childs
  internalization of moral values is intermediate.
  He/she abides by certain standards of other
  people such as parents (stage 3) or the rules of
  society (stage 4)

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• Stage 3 (Good-child morality) (Age 10-12)
• good behavior is that which maintains approval
  and good relations with others
• the child is concerned about conforming to his
  friends and families standards to maintain
  good-will and good relations
• a social-relational moral perspective develops,
  based on feelings and agreements between people
• Heinz should steal the drug for his wife. He
  loves his wife and his wife loves him. You can do
  anything for love!

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HOW TO ETHICALLY AUDIT A CORPORATION
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• GENERAL AREAS TO AUDIT
• i) INCOME
• ii) SECURITY AND STABILITY OF WORKFORCE
• -training/retraining
• iii) WORKPLACE CONDITIONS
• -heat, light, food, aesthetics, access for
  disabled
• iv) JOB CONTENT
• -satisfaction, challenge, variety

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• GENERAL AREAS TO AUDIT
• v) HEALTH SAFETY
• -incidence of injury/disease
• -protection
• vi) MANAGEMENT STYLE
• -transparent/cooperative
• vii) NON-WORK OPPORTUNITIES

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• viii) AIDS POLICY
• ix) CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
• x) ENVIRONMENT
• -AIR, WATER QUALITY
• -NOISE
• -PACKAGING
• -WASTE DISPOSAL
• xi) CUSTOMERS
• -FULL DISCLOSURE
• -TASTEFUL ADS
• -RELIABLE WARRANTIES
• xii) MILITARY
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• xiii) GENDER/RACE ISSUES

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Herman Miller

• What we believe in
• making a meaningful contribution to our
  customers
• cultivating community, participation people
• development
• creating economic value for shareholders
• employee owners
• responding to change through design
  innovation
• living with integrity respecting the
  environment

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Exxon

• We pledge to be a good coporate citizen in all
  the places we operate and to be a responsible
  member of the human community. We will maintain
  the highest ethical standards and are dedicated
  to running safe and environmentally responsible
  operations.