Ethics

250 words each DQS
Reflection Prompt #1
Summarize three of the ethical
theories that are explained in Chapter 1 of Introduction to Business Ethics. Explain how people running businesses would construct
their companies if they utilized these ethical theories. For example, you might
personally think that people should act to increase the overall happiness for
the greatest number of people (utilitarianism). You would explain
utilitarianism and then explain how a company based in utilitarian ethics would
function. In other words:

•	What
     products would they make?
 
•	How
     would they treat their employees? How would they treat their customers?
 
•	How
     would they manufacture their products?
 
•	How
     would they utilize their resources and profits were they to become
     successful?

Reflection Prompt #2

Analyze three of the punishments
that corporations undergo when they have acted unethically (i.e., name them, define
them, explain what they are). In addition, explain three threats to running an
ethical corporation. Finally, from your own perspective, explain whether or not
a corporation should have to function by the same codes of morality that
individual people in society have to abide by or if they should be allowed to
get away with certain actions that people in society cannot get away with.