The Google Company
Natasha Jamison
MGT/230
January 30, 2014
George Taylor

Ethics in Management
When thinking of ethics, one tends to think of rules for right or wrong. Ethics is the norm for conduct that distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. People learn ethical norms from church, school, home, and social gatherings. People learn the difference between right and wrong in early childhood, but learn morality throughout their entire life. Ethics is more than common sense. If it were only common sense, then one wouldn’t have ethical dilemmas like the one with Enron.
During childhood, one is taught the differences between right/wrong and good/bad while at home. Children are taught in school and at home to do the right thing, because it’s the right thing to do and to avoid doing wrong things, because they are wrong. This form of ethics is called Deontological Ethics (duty-based).
Under Duty-based ethics, actions are justified by showing a good outcome. It teaches that right or wrong depends on the actions of the individual and people have an obligation to act accordingly regardless of the outcome. For example, telling lies and killing people is wrong. Under duty-based ethics, one must do the right thing, even if it causes harm than doing the wrong thing.
Duty-based ethics puts emphasis on the value of human being and focus on giving the same amount of respect to each one. It forces due regard to be given to the interest of a person even when at odds are against them. Under Kantian duty-based ethics, some acts are always wrong no matter what good comes of it and some things should never be done like: killing a child. Rossian duty-based ethics modified Kantian ethics to allow balanced.

Duty-based ethics provides certainty because it is concerned with a particular action itself. It the action is right, do it. If it is not right, do not do it. As