This riff thus separates one's personal ethics from the ethics that govern their actions at work. Therefore, when one is faced with an ethical dilemma in the workplace, they can easily approach it from a non-ethical point-of-view, which in turn leads to corporation and the previously mentioned scandals.
Feminist theory, on the other hand, has traditionally approached the realm of business ethics with the argument that females are as capable as men in performing in the corporate world. Thus, such arguments as breaking the glass ceiling and placing females in executive positions have been the focus of feminists when it comes to business ethics. In other words, the focus of feminist has been on creating an ethics of equality in the workplace, or showing that females are also capable of possessing these so called masculine traits. However, this approach, although having made great strides in terms of getting females in leadership roles in the workplace, has done nothing to solve the ethical issue that causes the previously mentioned scandals.
Virginia Held's theory, however, can be applied to the field of business ethics as a means of solving this problem of the separation between the...
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