Topic: Management paper

[Clark Kent]

So i'm taking this management course, and we have to do a 5-8 page topic paper on something in management, so I decided to name my paper: Management and ethics: Never the Twain shall meet.
Bsically, it's about ethics in the purest sense and relating it to management.  I've met many people who take ethics classes for business type degrees, but when you mentjion things like utilitarianism or names like Kant or Mills they always look at me like I'm on crack, which tells me they didn't study the same thing in ethics i did.  Then I find out they learned no ethical theory, it's mostly conflict avoidance.  I thought it was like studying classical music without learning about beethoven or mozart.
 So  I thought i'd write the paper explaning all the views of ethics, and a few names, and tie it in to modern day management and occurances.
Opinions please?

[Hale]

I think you'll find that most companies that are sucessful over the long term are ethically sound.  I don't think most people need a background in philosophy to tell right from wrong.  Try running a retail location for a couple years and see how useful Kant is.     

[Clark Kent]

Then I must have a knack for finding companies that will let things like employees handing out your personal phone numbers, addresses and full name out, or ones that fire you for being assaulted on the job...

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

 
A great idea, Clark.  It's been done, but fresh views are always welcome....


http://www.insightmag.com/news/2002/03/18/National/Is.Big.Business.Ethically.Bankrupt-189846.shtml

[Clark Kent]

Thanks, i'll read this when I have a chance, might even use it for my paper.

[Hale]

I never said that these companies were in the majority, or that every middle manager meets this standard.   

However, try to put yourself in the place of a Loss Prevention Manager that has to reduce shrink by 2.0% in his district or lose his job.   Considering that most retail theft is by employees, what are you doing to do?