This week’s discussion activity focuses on corporate governance

Discussion Assignments:

This week’s discussion activity focuses on corporate governance issues from the perspectives of shareholders, employees, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders.

Discussion Activity 6 – Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Propose a recent (within last 3 years) business ethics case that you are familiar with; alternatively search on the internet or among the following resources one business ethics case:

• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm?fam=BUSI

  Ethics Cases - Ethics Resources - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - Santa Clara Universitywww.scu.eduCase studies and scenarios illustrating ethical dilemmas in business, medicine, technology, government, and education

• http://web.tepper.cmu.edu/ethics/aa/arthurandersen.htm
• http://business-ethics.com/category/csr/page/2/

Discuss the case relying on the classical business ethics approaches, including:

• Deontology (norms): Ethics of rights, of justice;
• Axiology (values): Ethics of values, care;
• Teleology (results): Utilitarianism etc.

Discuss this case using the following Corporate Social Responsibility approaches:

• Normative CSR: Critical Theory, Corporate Governance, Controls;
• Values based CSR: Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Performance;