Adopted standard of what constitutes acceptable behavior

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“Human rights issues present challenges for MNCs as there is currently no universally adopted standard of what constitutes acceptable behavior.” I’m surprised that there is no mention of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Plug that into your favorite search engine and look at it. Thirty articles in the declaration. Affirmation of thirty basic and fundamental human rights. “Now, therefore, The General Assembly, Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.” So, I suppose I’m asked to teach it to you.

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.” Yet, in Scotland, the rule is that you are guilty until proven innocent.

2. Is the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights movement in the right direction, or an example of their bureaucratic meddling undermining the Doctrine of Comity?

With respect to the section on Environmental Protection and Development, an update on the “Paris Agreement” is needed. I believe that it was June 1, 2017 when President Trump announced the withdrawal of the US from the agreement. The actual agreement stipulates that countries cannot withdraw from the agreement until four years after it goes into effect. That would be the day after the 2020 US Presidential elections.

Hypernorms stem from the writings of ethicists Thomas Donaldson and Thomas Dunfee. They view hypernorms as those values that are fundamental to humans—they do not differ based on religious, cultural, philosophical, or theoretical preferences.

3. Given what we have read to date, what REAL hypernorms does society actually support?

The section on Corporate Social Responsibility seems sadly lacking. Any discussion of CSR that does not reference Archie Carrol’s The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders, Business Horizons, July-August 1991, could stand improving. I’ll let you read that one on your own. It is time well spent.

“Corporate Governance” and “Corruption” sections… Sorry, but this takes us right back to Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is Good” speech. Not to be too cynical, however, do you see how the benefits and values touted in the section on “Sustainability” could also be read as wringing the maximum efficiency out of a closed system? Given that you aspire to be one of those “young professionals who will one day assume control of the trillions of dollars that the industry manages…”

4. What gives you hope that the future will be better? More ethical?

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