Philosophy Corporate Accountability
Corporate accountability is an important subject in today's society, in reading "Corporate Culpability Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines," by Jennifer Moore it is obvious that she feels very strongly that corporations are not being held accountable for their actions. Jennifer argues that employees are often blamed for their actions, but are simply complying with their job. This is very insightful, and I find it very hard to disagree with her logic.
She starts her argument by rejecting the idea that "it is sometimes difficult to locate the specific corporate agents responsible for a criminal act (171)." The rejection is not meant to infer that it is always easy to find the person at blame, but simply that this point has to do with prosecutors evidence and not the philosophical issue. Jennifer believes that because responsibility is spread throughout many different areas in the corporation, and decisions follow the same path, "there may in fact be no individual or group of individuals that is "justly to blame" for the crime (171)." The idea that many of us notice everyday, in many cases we as employees act blindly in accordance with policy, not exerting any control over the situations, and can therefore not be held accountable. In this respect the corporation is to be held accountable.
From my viewpoint, while I represent the company during work hours, and the company reaps the benefits of my good nature, they should also bear the responsibility o ...