Episode 15, Business Ethics (Part II)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Do corporations have ethical responsibilities? If so, what are they? Is whistleblowing ethical? When are we legally protected to do so? Not only do we have the questions, but this week we have some of the answers! Tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. Part I. Corporate Social Responsibility (2:20), Part II. Whistleblowing (28:00), Part III. "Good Ethics Is Good Business" (00:10 in Part II), Part IV. Globalisation, Further Analysis and Discussion (16:45 in Part II). You can find links to all the reading at www.thepanpsycast.com. Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode! Thank you to Desaparecidos for allowing us to play Slacktivist from their new album Payola. To find out more about the band click here: www.desaparecidosband.com
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| 0:00.0 | Pan |
| 0:02.0 | Psychists |
| 0:04.0 | Part |
| 0:07.0 | Part 3. |
| 0:12.0 | Good ethics is good business |
| 0:14.0 | Inquiry question |
| 0:16.0 | This summer |
| 0:20.0 | Co-op's to find out. |
| 0:21.6 | Being a stable business, it's harder than it looked. |
| 0:25.6 | Inquiry question, what is it, and what are the impacts on the stakeholders? |
| 0:31.6 | We've done a lot about good ethics and good business in the first section. |
| 0:35.6 | So I guess this is kind of like a in-detail look, businesses that try to be ethical and some of the debates around ethics in business. And so I'm going to give you some case studies. Okay? First of all, the co-op. I've got in front of me the co-op's ethical policy. There you go, you see it? It's full of fantastic things that they do. They're probably the most ethical company in the United Kingdom, promoting human rights equality, promoting economy and social development, protecting the environment. The notoriously don't, I don't think they give to any, they don't, the carp bank doesn't give loans to any company that's involved in animal testing or is a part of any unethical practice. |
| 1:13.6 | Like I said, they were founded in 1872 on the basis of its ethics. |
| 1:18.6 | So it's a, you know, it's a greatly ethical company. I recommend just going on the website and having a link to it on our website so you can follow it through there. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, so they have great relationships and ethics. |
| 1:28.9 | If you go shop at the co-op food shop, 1% if you have a card, 1% of everything you spend |
| 1:34.1 | goes to help local communities and stuff. |
| 1:37.6 | All the brands they try and have in store are ethically sourced. |
| 1:41.1 | They try not to do anything unethical. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, they're trying all that jazz. What do you think? Come up. Good. Do they ever does every product they have? |
| 1:51.8 | Because they they they sell a lot of just kind of big brand things like do Walker's crisps? |
| 1:57.5 | Are they completely ethical? I mean, I have no idea. They might very well be. |
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