“Is Business Bluffing Ethical” by Albert Carr discussed how bluffing in business is similar to game strategy and is completely ethical. The article compared bluffing in business to a game of poker. In poker‚ all players know that bluffing is a part of the game‚ just as all individuals in business know that the complete truth will not be revealed. Therefore‚ it is completely acceptable not to tell the truth or deceive another in business. As long as the actions of the business are within the stated
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is to take an in depth look at business bluffing. I want to determine why it takes place and if it is ethical or not. Various people has various perceptions about business bluffing‚ my plan is to investigate these different perceptions and to form my own. Definition Bluff: When you deceive someone about something and give them a false impression about it. http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:bluff&sa=X&ei=xeOITPflF4jO8wS77ODgDg&ved=0CBQQkAE Business: Organizations that sells products
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Advantages: Information technology (IT) benefits the business world by allowing organizations to work more efficiently and to maximize productivity. Some of the advantages that IT can have on our enterprise are given as following. 1. Storage: Information technology creates electronic storage systems to protect our company’s valuable records. 2. Automated Process: In business‚ people look for ways to do more work in a shorter amount of time. IT improves our company’s efficiency by developing
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1. Is Business Bluffing Ethical? By Albert Z. Carr 2. What is Carr’s central claim? “Business…is a game that demands both special strategy and an understanding of its special ethics.” (p. 60) One of these strategies involves calculated lying in the form of bluffing. These special ethics are different from “church ethics” such as honesty‚ integrity‚ and decency. This appears to be a wide-sweeping claim. Bluffing is widely practiced in business‚ and bluffing = “calculated lying.” This means that
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Is Business Bluffing Ethical? When people doing business‚ they may use different ethical standards other than what we use in daily life. The majority businessmen manage their business legally; however‚ not all legal business is ethical. I do not think that business bluffing is ethical. I will provide three arguments in following paragraphs which are based on theories of groupthink‚ consequentialist and duties to support my position. First of all‚ according to the theory of duties
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status of business bluffing is a controversial issue. On the one hand‚ bluffing would seem to be relevantly similar to lying and deception. Because of this‚ business bluffing can be taken to be an activity that is at least prima facie morally condemnable. On the other hand‚ it has often been claimed that in business bluffing is part of the game and that therefore there is nothing morally questionable in business bluffing (Allhoff‚2006). An attitude of extreme arrogance permeates the business world today
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Incorporating a Business In order to mention all the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating a business‚ first I should try to explain what a corporation is. In 1819‚ Chief Justice Marshall of the United States Supreme court said: " A corporation is an artificial being‚ invisible‚ intangible‚ and existing only in contemplation of the law." In the Webster’s College Dictionary corporation is defined as "an association of individuals‚ created by law and having
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1. List down the advantages and disadvantages of forming a partnership * Collaboration. As compared to a sole proprietorship‚ which is essentially the same business form but with only one owner‚ a partnership offers the advantage of allowing the owners to draw on the resources and expertise of the co-partners. Running a business on your own‚ while simpler‚ can also be a constant struggle. But with partners to share the responsibilities and lighten the workload‚ members of a partnership often
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own words give the gist of his work: “The essential point . . . is that the ethics of business are game ethics‚ different from the ethics of religion. . . ” He is not suggesting that there are two moral/ethical codes to which a businessperson owes allegiance. He simply noticed that folks in business often seem to operate under one set of moral principles at home and another in the business world. The business world appears‚ on the whole‚ much less moral than the world of home and church. Attempting
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In his essay‚ Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Albert Carr contends that business‚ like poker‚ warrants a certain amount of bluffing. He holds that business is a game‚ and so long as all those playing are doing so with an understanding of the rules of the game‚ personal ethics do not necessarily apply in the same way they would in a businessperson’s personal life (Carr 1968). To consider his argument‚ one must first come to working definitions of . Carr sees bluffing as distinguishable from lying in
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