Assignment a) Visit the ASPA website (Links to an external site.)and view it’s code of ethics and how these are implemented (Assessment Guide). Which of ASPA’s ethical principles resonate most with you in your work? Choose 2 principles from this code of ethics and explain why you selected these two principles in a 1-3 page paper.b) Read the Gotsis and Kortezi article: Ethical Paradigms as Potential Foundations of Diversity Management Initiatives in Business Organizations.These authors conclude that there are three distinct ethical frameworks that are pertinent and “can significantly enrich our understanding of differences, as well as the rationale for diversity management” (page 950). These ethical frameworks are a) Kantian deontology, b) Aristotelian virtue ethics and c) ethics of care.a. Briefly compare these three ethical frameworks andb. Explain which of these resonates most with you and why, in the context of managing a diverse workplace?
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JOCM
26,6
948
Received 22 November 2012
Revised 24 April 2013
Accepted 26 April 2013
Ethical paradigms as potential
foundations of diversity
management initiatives in
business organizations
George Gotsis and Zoe Kortezi
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the elaboration of a comprehensive moral
framework for designing and implementing diversity practices. In so doing, it employs distinct ethical
theories that not only elevate respect for differences to an end, but also provide a set of principles,
virtues or values conducive to the formation of an inclusive work environment.
Design/methodology/approach – A literature review, in particular contributions critical to current
implementations of diversity management, may provide the basis of a non-instrumental approach to
diversity issues, allowing for an inclusive and participative workplace. The paper suggests that such
an endeavor can be founded on the concepts of organizational virtue, care or human dignity
alternatively. In this respect, a theoretical context demonstrating the very way these concepts
influence and inform diversity issues, is elaborated, analyzed and properly discussed.
Findings – Three distinct theoretical frameworks capturing the importance of major ethical
traditions based on dignity, organizational virtue and care, for reconceptualizing diversity issues, are
introduced. It is proposed that non-utilitarian philosophical ethics (and more specifically, Kantian
deontology, Aristotelian virtue ethics or ethics of care) is in a position to provide a rationale for
diversity policies that affirm the diverse other as a valued end.