Cards Against�Business�Ethics

Freeman (1994) says managers have equal obligations to _______ and _______

QC2

Freeman, R.E., 1994. The politics of stakeholder theory: Some future directions. Business ethics quarterly, pp.409-421.

Corporate social responsibility ensures ________.

QC3

Norman and MacDonald (2004) say ________ is a poor method for corporations' ethical reporting.

QC4

Norman, W. and MacDonald, C., 2004. Getting to the bottom of “triple bottom line”. Business ethics quarterly, 14(2), pp.243-262.

The biggest challenge for ethical business is ________.

QC5

Every manager knows the ethical importance of ________.

QC6

Consequentialist business ethics is all about balancing _______ and _______.

QC7

Bentham, J. 2007. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Philosophical Classics. New York, NY: Dover Publications

A sustainable business can only be achieved by _______.

QC8

Kopnina (2016) warns that international policies on sustainability only promote ________.

QC9

Kopnina, H., 2016. The victims of unsustainability: A challenge to sustainable development goals. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 23(2), pp.113-121.

A virtuous business is one that is _______ and _______.

QC10

Solomon, R.C., 1992. Corporate roles, personal virtues: An Aristotelean approach to business ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 2(3), pp.317-339.

"the humanizing of business will occur only when those who work in it recapture _______" (Moore 2005, p237)

QC11

Moore, G., 2005. Humanizing business: A modern virtue ethics approach. Business ethics quarterly, 15(2), pp.237-255.

Deontological business ethics are all about applying ________ to ________.

QC12

Micewski, E.R. and Troy, C., 2007. Business ethics–deontologically revisited. Journal of Business Ethics, 72, pp.17-25.

Ethical consumption is all about ________.

QC13

Adams, M. and Raisborough, J., 2010. Making a difference: ethical consumption and the everyday. The British journal of sociology, 61(2), pp.256-274.

Ethical employment standards are all about ________.

QC14

Greenwood, M.R., 2002. Ethics and HRM: A review and conceptual analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 36, pp.261-278.

The only reasons management and workers don't get along are _______ and ________.

QC15

Greenwood, M.R., 2002. Ethics and HRM: A review and conceptual analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 36, pp.261-278.

Regulation is a great way of protecting ________.

QC16

________ is always wrong in business.

QC17

Two years after formal ethics training there is still evidence of ________.

QC18

Warren, D.E., Gaspar, J.P. and Laufer, W.S., 2014. Is formal ethics training merely cosmetic? A study of ethics training and ethical organizational culture. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24(1), pp.85-117.

________ is fair business practice when based on ________.

QC19

_______ is a brilliant solution to the lack of trust in business

QC20

The original makers of this game met philanthropic social demands by ________.

QC21

Resnik, D.B., 2003. A pluralistic account of intellectual property. Journal of business ethics, 46, pp.319-335

Ethical companies would not intentionally profit from _______.

QC22

An ethical businessperson is motivated by _______.

QC23

Whistleblowers are motivated by _______.

QC24

Olesen, T. 2023 Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Whistleblowing Opportunities Under Conditions of Normalized Wrongdoing. Journal of Business Ethics.

Organisational justice relies on treating employees with _______.

QC25

Discrimination is prevented by _______.

QC26

Normative ethical demands compel _______ from businesses.

QC27

Every person has a human right to ________.

QC28

United Nations General Assembly. 1948. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). New York: United Nations General Assembly

Virtue ethics in business suggests we should all aim to be ________.

QC29

Solomon, R.C., 1992. Corporate roles, personal virtues: An Aristotelean approach to business ethics. Business Ethics Quarterly, 2(3), pp.317-339.

Care ethics advises businesses to prioritise _______ instead of _______.

QC30

Held, V., 2002. Care and the extension of markets. Hypatia, 17(2), pp.19-33.

Hardin (1968) said the biggest challenge to sustainable business is _______.

QC31

Hardin, G., 1968. The tragedy of the commons: the population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. Science, 162(3859), pp.1243-1248.

Carrol's (1991) Corporate Social Responsibility pyramid says ______ is required of business by society

QC32

Carroll, A.B., 1991. The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders. Business Horizons, 34(4), pp.39-48.

Politicians who own businesses are ________.

QC33

No taxation without ________!

QC34

Cooperation between business and civil society will create _______.

QC35

Sustainable business relies on ________.

QC36

Ehrenfeld, J.R., 2011. Beyond the Brave New World: Business for Sustainability in The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Norman Bowie (2015) says that managers are unlikely to succeed at _______ and should instead try _______.

QC37

Bowie, N. E. (1998). A Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work. Journal of Business Ethics, 17 (9/10), 1083–1092.

When in need of funds, an ethical manager commits to _______.

QC38

MacQuillin, I. and Sargeant, A., 2019. Fundraising ethics: A rights-balancing approach. Journal of Business Ethics, 160, pp.239-250.

Cards Against�Business�Ethics

Owners.

AC2

Shareholders.

AC3

Stakeholders.

AC4

Random people in the street.

AC5

Animals.

AC6

The environment.

AC7

Profit-crazed hedge fund managers.

AC8

American Drag Queen RuPaul.

AC9

One hundred starving orphans.

AC10

Multibillionaire Russian businessmen.

AC11

Employees.

AC12

Customers.

AC13

My gold-plated superyacht.

AC14

Ahmed, Z. (2023) Top 15 most expensive yachts in the world. Marine Insight. Available at: https://www.marineinsight.com/boating-yachting/top-10-most-expensive-private-yachts-in-the-world/

Vulnerable people.

AC15

White people.

AC16

Morality like your grandma.

AC17

A better world for rich people.

AC18

Charity.

AC19

Greed.

AC20

Donating $10,000 to the nearest politician.

AC21

Lu, Y., Shailer, G. and Wilson, M., 2016. Corporate political donations: Influences from directors’ networks. Journal of Business Ethics, 135, pp.461-481.

Bravery.

AC22

Patience.

AC23

Generosity.

AC24

Justice.

AC25

Legal, ethical and economic priorities.

AC26

Women.

AC27

Burning down your overseas factories.

AC28

Loomis, E.(2016) Out of Sight: The long and disturbing story of corporations outsourcing catastrophe. New Press: NY

Employee suicide.

AC29

Chabrak, N., Craig, R., & Daidj, N. (2016). Financialization and the employee suicide crisis at France Telecom. Journal of Business Ethics, 139, 501-515.

Triple bottom line.

AC30

��Spending public money on a historical wilderness fantasy full of starving animals.

AC31

Kopnina, H., Leadbeater, S. and Cryer, P., 2019. Learning to rewild: Examining the failed case of the Dutch “New Wilderness” Oostvaardersplassen. International Journal of Wilderness, 25(3), pp.72-89.

Slave labour.

AC32

Boersma, M., & Nolan, J. (2022). Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(2), 165–176.

Desperate homeless drug addicts.

AC33

Crane, A., LeBaron, G., Phung, K., Behbahani, L., & Allain, J. (2022). Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery. Journal of Management Inquiry, 31(3), 264–285..

Bats.

AC34

Köllen, T. and Schneeberger, D., 2023. Avoiding unnecessary suffering: Towards a moral minimum standard for humans' responsibility for animal welfare. Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.

Brain-altering parasites.

AC35

Johnson, S.K., Fitza, M.A., Lerner, D.A., Calhoun, D.M., Beldon, M.A., Chan, E.T. and Johnson, P.T., 2018. Risky business: linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1883)

Obeying the rules.

AC36

Kelemen, M. and Peltonen, T., 2001. Ethics, morality and the subject: the contribution of Zygmunt Bauman and Michel Foucault to postmodern business ethics. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 17(2), pp.151-166.

Having sex with all your work colleagues.

AC37

Boyd, C. (2010). The debate over the prohibition of romance in the workplace. Journal of Business Ethics, 97, 325-338.x

A great corporate citizen.

AC38

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Spilling 210 million gallons of oil into the sea.

AC39

Matejek, S. and Gössling, T., 2014. Beyond legitimacy: A case study in BP’s “green lashing”. Journal of Business Ethics, 120, pp.571-584..

Making shit up as you go along.

AC40

Choosing the lowest cost supplier.

AC41

Sweatshops.

AC42

Egels-Zandén, N., Merk, J. 2014. Private Regulation and Trade Union Rights: Why Codes of Conduct Have Limited Impact on Trade Union Rights. Journal of Business Ethics 123, 461–473

Locking the workers in the factory to make sure the bastards don't steal the product.

AC43

Hobson, J., 2013. To die for? The health and safety of fast fashion. Occupational Medicine, 63(5), pp.317-319..

A clear code of ethics.

AC44

Babri, M., Davidson, B. & Helin, S. 2021. An Updated Inquiry into the Study of Corporate Codes of Ethics: 2005–2016. Journal of Business Ethics 168, 71–108

Getting customers to have sex with you to keep them loyal.

AC45

Hadjisolomou, A., Nickson, D. and Baum, T., 2023. ‘He is the customer, I will say yes’: Notions of power, precarity and consent to sexual harassment by customers in the gay tourism industry. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(4), pp.1407-1428..

Outcome

AC46

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Happy accidents

AC47

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Exactly what I intended all along.

AC48

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United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.

AC49

UN DESA, 2023, The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition, New York, USA: UN DESA.

Vladimir Putin.

AC50

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Donald Trump.

AC51

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Elon Musk.

AC52

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Richard Branson.

AC53

Red Squirrels.

AC54

Another bumper dividend for Mike Ashley and SportsDirect.

AC55

Shildrick, T. (2018) Poverty Propaganda, Bristol, UK: Policy Press..

An excessive amount of honesty.

AC56

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Profit for shareholders.

AC57

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Ignorance.

AC58

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Fame.

AC59

Power.

AC60

Tragic accidents.

AC61

That one time you were watching Netflix instead of working.

AC62

Eliminating human error by making robots do the work.

AC63

Using social media to track your workers’ movements.

AC64

A bogus press release.

AC65

Lying.

AC66

Sherwood, C. N. C. (2022) “A Lie Is a Lie: The Ethics of Lying in Business Negotiations,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 32(4), pp. 604–634..

Ideas that came to me at 4am.

AC67

Universal moral rules.

AC68

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Business environments.

AC69

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The group of professionals I go drinking with and pretend to listen to.

AC70

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Dictating every worker movement using a mobile app.

AC71

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Cutting costs.

AC72

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Hiring a very expensive legal firm to ensure you don't get sued.

AC73

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Cryptocurrency.

AC74

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Placing the profits in a Cayman Islands subsidiary corporation.

AC75

Cowardice.

AC76

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Whistleblowing.

AC77

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Running to the newspapers at every opportunity.

AC78

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Dismissal without pay.

AC79

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Milton Friedman, author of 'Capitalism and Freedom'.

AC80

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John Rawls, author of 'A Theory of Justice'

AC81

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Carol Gilligan, author of 'In a Different Voice'

AC82

Adam Smith, author of 'The Wealth of Nations'

AC83

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Murdering approximately 130 people for the insurance payout.

AC84

Logan, N. 2019. Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race. Journal of Business Ethics 154, 977–988.

Stealing.

AC85

Hadjisolomou, A. 2019. "Front-line service managers’ misbehaviour and disengagement: the elephant in the store?", Employee Relations, Vol. 41 No. 5, pp. 1015-1032..

Price gouging.

AC86

Zwolinski, M., 2008. The ethics of price gouging. Business Ethics Quarterly, 18(3), pp.347-378..

Children under the age of 16.

AC87

Kolk, A. and Van Tulder, R., 2002. Child labor and multinational conduct: a comparison of international business and stakeholder codes. Journal of Business Ethics, 36, pp.291-301..

McDonalds.

AC88

Peggs, K., 2022. McVeg* n: a critical analysis of vegetarianism, business ethics and animals as food. In Thomas (ed) Animals and Business Ethics (pp. 157-177). Springer International Publishing..

Money.

AC89

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External goods.

AC90

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Internal goods.

AC91

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Polluting small politically insignificant countries.

AC92

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AC93

Burning rainforests.

McGahan, A.M. and Pongeluppe, L.S., 2023. There is no planet B: Aligning stakeholder interests to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Management Science..

Creating a new circular consumption product that you just throw in landfill when no one is watching.

AC94

Faking your greenhouse gas emissions tests.

AC95

Valentini, C. and Kruckeberg, D., 2018. “Walking the environmental responsibility talk” in the automobile industry: An ethics case study of the Volkswagen environmental scandal. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 23(4), pp.528-543..

A giant hole to nowhere.

AC96

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-against-humanity-hole

Consumer debt.

AC97

Mews, C.J. and Abraham, I., 2007. Usury and just compensation: Religious and financial ethics in historical perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 72, pp.1-15..

Psychological coercion.

AC98

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Artificial Intelligence.

AC99

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Committing to a new management idea because your Boss said so.

AC100

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Being in a better position than everyone else.

AC101

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Making sure everyone loses except us.

AC102

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Flagrant violation of consumer safety.

AC103

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Spontaneous combustion.

AC104

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A few bad apples.

AC105

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Front-page headlines.

AC106

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A 300% increase in share price.

AC107

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Child obesity.

AC108

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368 million tonnes of plastic waste.

AC109

Walker, T.R. and Fequet, L., 2023. Current trends of unsustainable plastic production and micro (nano) plastic pollution. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 160, p.116984.

$195.2 million in legal settlements for racial discrimination.

AC110

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/business/coca-cola-settles-racial-bias-case.html.

A tax-deductible training programme to prevent unconscious bias.

AC111

Noon, M., 2018. Pointless diversity training: Unconscious bias, new racism and agency. Work, employment and society, 32(1), pp.198-209..

Treating human beings not as a means to an end, but as an end in themselves.

AC112

Bowie, N.E., 2002. A Kantian approach to business ethics. Ethical issues in business: A philosophical approach, 7, pp.61-71.

Respiratory diseases from industrial emissions.

AC113

Bergstra, A.D., Brunekreef, B. and Burdorf, A., 2018. The effect of industry-related air pollution on lung function and respiratory symptoms in school children. Environmental health, 17(1), pp.1-9..

Commodification of necessary natural resources.

AC114

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Derelict schools constructed using private finance initiatives.

AC115

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Fraud.

AC116

Bribery.

AC117

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Apple.

AC118

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Fair trade products.

AC119

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Unrestrained human breeding.

AC120

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Politicians in the Global North.

AC121

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People who just complain again and again.

AC122

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Consumer boycotts.

AC123

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Over-hyped fake music festivals for rich millenials promoted on social media.

AC124

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Meeting the demands of shareholders.

AC125

Locking all the fire doors.

AC126

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Picking up the phone to your Daddy.

AC127

Being registered as non-domiciled for tax purposes.

AC128

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Foxconn.

AC129

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Consulting with a wide range of stakeholders.

AC130

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Private property.

AC131

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Ethnic minorities.

AC132

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Accountable to no one and nothing.

AC133

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A great way of promoting democracy.

AC134

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LGBTQ+ people.

AC135

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A closed-loop supply chain.

AC136

Opening too many outlets and driving the competition out of business.

AC137

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Paying an independent consultancy to create a nice new code of ethics.

AC138

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Protecting endangered species.

AC139

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Economic development through commodifying local resources.

AC140

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Changing the measurement standards for overfishing.

AC141

Using every trick in the book to increase product demand.

AC142

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Marketing.

AC143

Altruism.

AC144

Relentlessly pursuing profits for shareholders.

AC145

Hugely increasing the price of bottled water when there is a sudden shortage.

AC146

Calling it a ‘work event’.

AC147

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Following the guidance of religious scripture.

AC148

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