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Business Ethics: Decisions in Paradise

Historical and current business scandals and corruption teach the significant need for ethics to be a fundamental aspect of all business decisions. Using ethical principles to guide decision making and the action that stems from it is helpful in determining the ethical choice as also a means of achieving organization objectives. From a Kantian perspective, the categorical imperative mandates the maxim that in order for a choice to be moral it must be one that could be willed as a universal law. As Kant put it, "Act only to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law" (Boatright 56-57). Clearly, one could not will the actions of Steve as a universal maxim. Business would come to a standstill, planning would be pointless, and resource and cost calculations would be inaccurate. Not keeping your word in business, even if oral, is breaking a contract on a moral level. In this sense, I would tell Steve his long-term delay and last minute price negotiation (a large differential no less) are unacceptable. If he is not willing to alter his second estimates and time frame and keep to them, I would tell him I am choosing another vendor even if I have to wait as long. By doing this, universally all businesses would send the message that you need to be accountable for your word and your performance in business transactions.

From a utility perspective, making the most numbers of people happy is the action that is deemed moral according to the Bentham and Mill views of utilitarianism and moral choice. Mill's utility doctrine holds that "happiness is desirable, and the only thing desirable, as an end; all other things being desirable as means to that end" (Rachels and Rachels 100). To this end, I would tell Steve that his significantly higher cost estimate and his long-term delay are not going to make my customers or me happy. If he refuses to honor his origin

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