Corvinus University of Budapest Business Ethics Center
Abstract
The self-centeredness of modern organizations leads to environmental destruction and human
deprivation. The principle of responsibility developed by Hans Jonas requires caring for the
beings affected by our decisions and actions.
Ethical decision-making creates a synthesis of reverence for ethical norms, rationality in goal
achievement, and respect for the stakeholders. The maximin rule selects the "least worst
alternative" in the multidimensional decision space of deontological, goal-achievement and
stakeholder values.
The ethical decision-maker can be characterized as having the ability to take multiple
perspectives and make appropriate balance across diverse value dimensions.
Modern organizations should develop a critical sensitivity to and empathy toward human and
non-human beings with which they share a common environment