Ethics
choose either of the options below for your essay this week.
1) Choices made in a business environment do not occur in an instrumental vacuum. Our perceptions of business situations can be seen as “narratives” that we create to explicate our understanding of
the world around us. The paper, Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making, shows how this narrative is not static. How does moral imagination shape and humanize this narrative?
Or
2) From the No Country for Old Men movie clip, Anton Chigurh made a number of revealing statements. In what ways, does Chigurh cause the store owner harm? In what way does Chigurh seem amoral? In
what way does Chigurh demonstrate morality? Explain from an ethics perspective what he may be inferring when:
To the store proprietor, Chigurh states
You are a bit deaf, aren’t you?
You don’t know what you are talking about, do you?
You have been putting it up your whole life, you just didn’t know it.
In the coin toss Chigurh states
You married into it?
You stand to win everything, call it.
You need to call it. I can’t call it for you, it wouldn’t be fair.