BUS320: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits - Business Strategies

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Business Strategies

Questions: This fallacy underlies much of the dominant story about business, as well as in other areas in society. There are two implications of rejecting the Separation Fallacy. The first is that almost any business decision has some ethical content. To see that this true one need only ask whether the following questions make sense for virtually any business decision: (1) If this decision is made for whom is value created and destroyed? (2) Who is harmed and/or benefited by this decision? (3) Whose rights are enabled and whose values are realized by this decision (and whose are not)? (4) What kind of person will I (we) become if we make this decision?