Past Questions
June 2015
‘Kantian ethics are the most useful approach to business ethics.’ Discuss.
June 2014
Critically assess the view that businesses have a religious moral duty to put their employees first.
June 2013
‘Businesses are completely incompatible with Virtue Ethics.’ Discuss.
January 2013:
Critically assess the view that businesses have a moral duty to put their consumers first. [35]
June 2012
To what extent are ethical theories helpful when considering ethical business practice? [35]
January 2011:
'The environment suffers because business has no ethics.' Discuss. [35]
This OCR question is from June 2010:
Assess the usefulness of Religious Ethics as an ethical approach to business. (35)
You can easily slot in any ethical approaches (Assess the usefulness of Utilitarianism... etc) for practice questions.
On this website, we focus on a 'TICKET' structure to individual paragraphs, but also look at different ways to structure an essay. For a sample essay structure on Business Ethics, have a look at "Businesses should put stockholders before stakeholders". Discuss.
There are also examples of essays that students have written. Try marking them, or discuss with your teacher what their strengths and weaknesses are:
"Moral absolutes are not helpful in Business Ethics." - Shona; Beth; Anon
