Affirmative action and redistributive ethics
Management faces complex race related issues in which groups arguing entitlement appear to claim benefits historically enjoyed by others. Thus many affirmative action issues provoke animosity because they are framed as zero sum problems. To some extent they are zero sum. Therefore, rationales for co...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1986
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 1986, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-77 |
Further subjects: | B
Action Policy
B Action Issue B Affirmative Action B Economic Growth B Related Issue |
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Summary: | Management faces complex race related issues in which groups arguing entitlement appear to claim benefits historically enjoyed by others. Thus many affirmative action issues provoke animosity because they are framed as zero sum problems. To some extent they are zero sum. Therefore, rationales for corporate policy must address that forthrightly. Up to now the corporate justification has been weak. The article describes a social debt owed interracially resulting from the accumulation of current class benefits from past discrimination, and asserts that affirmative action policies have a firm ethical basis inasmuch as they are affectively redistributing benefits to pay the social debt. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF02116147 |