In this unit's Reading Assignments, you were presented with historical perspectives to help you reason about ethical principles as they occur in different cultural contexts as well as in individual and organizational situations, which may have helped enrich your thinking with perspectives based on values, judgments, motivation, and socioregulatory factors. Think about your professional life and the ethics and values that guide your (and your organization's) behavior and decision-making processes. Discuss the following in your assignment:
- Analyze the value of knowledge about the history of current-day business ethics.
- Determine whether such history should matter to organizations as much as (and in the same way that) it does to individuals.
- Defend the study of history, ethics, and ethical thought.
- Examine how the knowledge of the past helps people understand and prepare for future ethical decisions that will challenge them.