Business Ethics

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“A Framework for Thinking Ethically” by Velasquez, Moberg, Meyer, Shanks, McLean, DeCrosse, Andre, Hanson

Biography Manuel Velasquez is the author of Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases (Prentice-Hall), the most widely used business ethics textbook in the world. Known as the father of academic business ethics, Velasquez is the Charles J. Dirksen Professor of Business Ethics at the Santa Clara University, where he holds appointments in the Department of Management and the Department of Philosophy and teaches courses in business ethics, business, and public policy and in business strategy. The author of numerous articles and case studies on business ethics, Velasquez also wrote Philosophy: A Text with Readings, 11th edition, (Wadsworth Cengage, 2011) and has provided consulting and training in business ethics for several companies, as well as workshops on teaching business ethics to more than 2,000 business school faculty. Velasquez received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Gonzaga University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Q1. What does the decision-making process require?

Q2. Think of Leaders you know and the five ethical approaches. Which do they use most often when making moral and ethical decisions?

Q3. Is it important to make all moral and ethical positions from the same framework? Why or why not?

Q4. How do we attract people to a common purpose using this text-only?