18 Nov What are the prospects for continued economic growth? What ethical problems pertain to continual growth?

Managerial Ethics and Social Issues

Part I (40%) Directions: 

Answer all questions in a full and complete manner.  Answer each question one by one, typing your ½ to 1 full page responses to each individual question

1. What is the distinction (or the relationship) between pollution and resource depletion?  What are the most important types of pollution (text)? What harmful effects does each form have on our lives, health, and economic well-being?

2. What are the prospects for continued economic growth? What ethical problems pertain to continual growth?

3. What is the market approach to consumer protection? In what ways does it fall short of completely protecting consumers?

4. How does the social costs view extend the due care theory and the contract view?  Why do its critics say that the social costs view is unfair? Are their arguments persuasive?

5. Why, according to the utilitarian view, is discrimination in the workplace unethical?   How do rights theorists argue against discrimination? What are the justice-based arguments against it?   What kinds of employment practices are clearly discriminatory?

6. Why should employers care about their employees’ level of job satisfaction? Why are modern employees increasingly unsatisfied with their jobs? What can be done to improve their degree of satisfaction?

7. Why do employees have the right to unionize and to strike? What explains the lack of power of modern unions? What are the effects of the dwindling numbers of union employees in the U.S.?