Case Study Analysis of Environmental Ethics

This is with regards to the company 's external stake holders and the picture it wants to project to them

Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics seek to propagate viewing and understanding ethics in terms of kindness , honest , sincerity and justice . These concepts are considered weightier that goodness and rightness earlier considered . In this case the focus is thus on moral character . Actions are thus guided by morality rather than goodness and rightness . This means that an action might not good or right but it is moral . In the case of the

company , investing 1 ,000 ,000 in a new machine that has annual running costs of 100 ,000 given the current machinery are still economically productive is neither good nor right . There is no justification to incur the additionally cost . However given the impact of the company 's operations to the neighborhood , it is not negotiable that this is the moral thing to do

To a virtue ethicist , the focus is on how to live a flourishing human life . In deed this should be the central concern of the company . In truth it will only achieve this as a result of the realization the huge value the human resource is to its operations . As Aristotle said living virtuously is the recipe for flourishing . This does not apply to humans only by to all - company 's included

Conclusion

The company must install the new equipment . With a workforce of 1 ,000 it can not afford to be alienated by the city . Additionally , this air that is affecting the people living in the neighborhood is the same that the workforce breathes every time they are at work . This been the case it is only a matter of time before the company will have to start incurring medical expenses as a result of the...