assigment 2 - Making decisions in business Ethics

Name : MuhammadHazwan bin zailani

Matrix No : 62283212194

Subject : Business Ethic

Lecturer : Dr Kamarudin Bin Mohd Nor

For assignment number 2 (10%) you are required to select a topic of your interest (on the management of innovation for the students following the course or business ethics and corporate governance for those following this course).

You will have to create a question out of the topic that you choose and answer it. Do not answer more than 2 pages. Having done that you then upload your assignment in your own blog.

For example you may well choose diffusion as a topic. Your question could be something like this: "As part of the innovation continuum, diffusion is very important in spreading and marketing an invention to add value to it. Why?"

Start by defining diffusion...

Or

A topic on ethics like hedonism. "Briefly explain on the secular moral concept of hedosism"

Email to me stating that you have completed your assignment after you have uploaded it. You  must submit your assignment via your blog before the end of the sixth (6) week.

Source : http://dinalorstar.blogspot.com/2013/02/assignment-2.html

1. what is the ethical decision ?

-the decision is likely to have significant effect on others. Two of the most critical aspect of morality are that it is concerned with harms and benefits,and that it is about consideration of social good, i.e considerationof other beyond the self. Even egoism is concerned with other in that one is expected to act in one’s own self-interest because that is for the good of society.

-the decicion is likely to be characterized by choice, in that alternative courses of action are open.  A moral decision requires that we have a choice. For argument sake, if you accidently copied the kanye west album without realizing it, then you could not be said to have had so much of a choice in the matter.

-the decision is perceived as ethically relevant by one or more parties. Regardless of whether the decision-maker sees a decision as having ethical content, if others do, then the decision immediately incurs some degree of of ethicality.

2. List down the stages in ethical decision making ?

The process of ethical decision-making introduced by James Rest (1986). According to this model,individuals move through a process whereby they:

3.  give the factor ethical decision making

Ethical decision making-generally divide in two boad catogaries. Individual and situational.

-individual factors. These are the unique characteristics of the individual actually making the relevant decision. These include factors that are given by birth and those acquired by experience and socialization ( such as education, personality, and attitudes.

-situational factors. These are the particular feature of the context that influence wheter the individual will make an ethical or an unethical decision.