tailieunhanh - Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: A Criminological Perspective

This Business Plan shows how astronomers at the Armagh Observatory will deliver on the Observa- tory's key business areas in support of the Northern Ireland Executive's Programme for Government, the cross-cutting STEM Strategy and key actions and objectives of its sponsor government department, the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL). First, we provide an introduction to the organization and the principal research themes in astronomy and related sciences addressed by sta in the Observatory and their international partners. The Observatory has a high-quality computing infrastructure, and a library, archives and astronomical museum collection that is one of the premier specialist collections of its kind. | Journal of Business Ethics 2008 83 595 614 DOI s10551-007-9641-8 Business Ethics and Moral Motivation A Criminological Perspective Springer 2008 Joseph Heath ABSTRACT. The prevalence of white-collar crime casts a long shadow over discussions in business ethics. One of the effects that has been the development of a strong emphasis upon questions of moral motivation within the field. Often in business ethics there is no real dispute about the content of our moral obligations the question is rather how to motivate people to respect them. This is a question that has been studied quite extensively by criminologists as well yet their research has had little impact on the reflections of business ethicists. In this article I attempt to show how a criminological perspective can help to illuminate some traditional questions in business ethics. I begin by explaining why criminologists reject three of the most popular folk theories of criminal motivation. I go on to discuss a more satisfactory theory involving the so-called techniques of neutralization and its implications for business ethics. KEY WORDS character deviance moral motivation techniques of neutralization white-collar crime One of the peculiar features of business ethics as compared to other domains of applied ethics is that it deals with a domain of human affairs that is afflicted by serious criminality and an institutional environment that is in many cases demonstrably criminogenic Braithwaite 1989 pp. 128 129 Coleman 1989 pp. 6-8 Leonard and Weber 1970 Sutherland 1968 p. 59 . The oddity of this state of affairs is sometimes lost on practitioners in the field. It is common for instance at business ethics Joseph Heath is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Communicative Action and Rational Choice MIT The Efficient Society Penguin and with Andrew Potter The Rebel Sell HarperCollins . conferences