Drawing upon deontological ethics, discuss how Adelphia Communications’ executives violated the trust of the company’s shareholders and the trust of that of the larger public.
Keys to the Assignment
The key aspects of this assignment that should be covered in your paper include the following:
•Briefly describe the Adelphia Communications scandal.
•Identify and discuss two key ethical problems raised by the Adelphia Communications case.
•Describe what is meant by “deontological ethics” generally (e.g., duty and rights), and by Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative more specifically.
•Apply the deontological framework of business ethics to the two key ethical problems you identified above.
•Apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to the two key ethical problems you identified above.
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