Unlike utility ethics, duty ethics hold that the duty to act (or not to act) is rooted in the goodness or evil of the act itself and not in the outcome of the act. Said differently, certain acts are good or bad in and of themselves. Immanuel Kant was a duty-based philosopher, who argued that people must act out of duty.
Read the following resource introducing duty-based ethics:
Duty-based ethics. (2014). BBC. Retrieved fromhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/duty_1.shtml
Required Reading
Sethi, S., Veral, E., Shapiro, H., & Emelianova, O. (2011). Mattel, Inc.: Global manufacturing principles (GMP) A life-cycle analysis of a company-based code of conduct in the toy industry.Journal of Business Ethics, 99(4), 483-517. Retrieved from ProQuest.
In a well-written, 4- to 5-page paper (not including cover and reference pages), apply Duty Ethics to the Mattel case study.
Velasquez, M., Andre, C., Shanks, T., & Meyer, M. J. (2008). Ethics and virtue. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/ethicsandvirtue.html
Virtue ethics. (2011). Seven Oaks Philosophy. Retrieved fromhttp://www.sevenoaksphilosophy.org/ethics/virtue.html