Ethics-Governance: Article: The Ethics of Human Capital

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The Ethics of Human Capital The Ethics of Human Capital By James O'Toole. The business media today are fixated on the misdoings of a gallery of rogues: messieurs Ebbers, Skilling, Lay, Scrushy, Waskal, and Kozlowski. Not since the Robber Baron era have the names of corporate leaders been so infamous. And with that infamy has come demand for increased corporate social responsibility. This reaction is understandable, but what does it mean in practice? What specific social responsibilities should businesses assume? It seems to go without saying that executives must obey the law; so the renewed call for social responsibility must mean something more than that. Yet, it can't mean that businesses are responsible for addressing all of society's ills, including those they didn't create, or those over which they have little leverage. Full Article: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/prac...esentations/human-capital.html


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