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Business Ethics Lesson 3

This document provides an overview of business ethics and moral development theories, including feminist ethics of care and Kohlberg's stages of moral development. It discusses Carol Gilligan's premises of feminist ethics, which value care and compassion. It then explains that moral development involves learning right from wrong through social norms. Kohlberg believed moral reasoning evolved through six sequential stages and presented Heinz's dilemma to analyze responses. The document asks if men and women think differently about moral issues and gender expectations.

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Business Ethics Lesson 3

This document provides an overview of business ethics and moral development theories, including feminist ethics of care and Kohlberg's stages of moral development. It discusses Carol Gilligan's premises of feminist ethics, which value care and compassion. It then explains that moral development involves learning right from wrong through social norms. Kohlberg believed moral reasoning evolved through six sequential stages and presented Heinz's dilemma to analyze responses. The document asks if men and women think differently about moral issues and gender expectations.

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BUSINESS ETHICS

Lesson 3
LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Dimensions of feminist ethics (ethics of care)


• Moral development
• Analysis and critical discussion of Kohlberg’s stages of moral
development
• Feminist responses to Kohlberg’s stages of moral development
• Relevance of the Kohlberg’s stages to business practices
• Applying the Kohlberg’s stages to ethical development.
FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE

Point to ‘care’ (like a mother’s care) as the


basic model of all moral relations and
ethics of care.

Feminists/Ethics of Care value the need to


be caring above everything else.
ETHICS OF CARE – PREMISES PROPOSED BY
CAROL GILLIGAN

• Women and men are equal; any view that does


not recognize this is mistaken.
• Any morality that does not take women into
consideration is incomplete, hence flawed.
• Traits that have been associated with women
such as care, compassion, sympathy are just as
important to morality
MORAL DEVELOPMENT

Moral development is the process through which


children develop proper attitudes and
behaviors toward other people in society, based
on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws
Moral development is a concern for every
parent.

Teaching a child to distinguish right from


wrong and to behave accordingly is a goal
of parenting.
Moral reasoning is a thinking process with
the objective of determining whether an
idea is right or wrong.
What something is intended to accomplish
Hence helping to understand whether the
direction we are taking is “right” or
“wrong”.
It is the reasoning process by which human
behaviors, institutions, or policies are judged to
be in accordance with or in violation of moral
standards.
LAWRENCE KOLHBERG (1927-1987)

Was an American psychologist who extended Jean Piaget's work


in cognitive reasoning into adolescence and adulthood.

He felt that moral development was a slow process and evolved


over time.

He developed six stages of moral development.

Individuals made progress by mastering each stage, one at a time.


A person could not skip stages.
HEINZ’S DILEMMA
What are the (social) expectations
attached to your gender?
EXAMPLES OF MORAL
PROBLEMS

Q1) Is seeking revenge justified?


Q2) Is assisted suicide or euthanasia, an act of
compassion or evil?
Q3) Is abortion acceptable?
Do men and women think differently
about moral problems?

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