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Taking Ethics Seriously
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Taking Ethics Seriously

by John Hooker
April 2018
Beginner
244 pages
7h 19m
English
Productivity Press
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Organizational Policy

I would now like to move on to issues that concern company policy, as opposed to dilemmas faced by individual employees. I begin with the Ford Pinto dilemma I presented at the beginning of the book. I then deal with the task of designing ethical policies for surge pricing, sourcing from low-wage factories, online privacy, publishing offensive material, and online self-censorship. These complex issues call on the full range of intellectual resources developed so far in the book.

EXPLODING GAS TANKS

We are now in a position to analyze the case of the Ford Pinto discussed at the beginning of the book. Recall that Ford had received reports that due to a design defect, the gas tank in its low-budget car would sometimes ...

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