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152. The only responsibility of executives, provided they stay within the law, is to make as much money as possible for their companies.
I generally agree with the speaker in asserting the profit maximization, which is determined by the social roles and functions the enterprises performed.
The first aim of enterprise is profit maximization, and to be the leader of the company, executives’ most essential responsibility is to leader his men achieve this goal, which is quite pragmatic. The world itself is pragmatic, since Darwin’s theory of evolutionary selection holds that the survival or extinction of each organism is determined by its ability to adapt to the environment, and beings as humans, we are not exempt from this procedure. We are obligated to be pragmatic, to survive and further to thrive. When we apply this phenomenon to the realm of economy, enterprises are cultivated by the principles of market as we are by the environment, where profit is the key to survive. Let us get down to the role shared by executives, if we regard the company as a whole an organism, executives should be compared to the center of the nerve system. As we know, what makes a man to survive is his hand, and what makes thrive is his head. By the same token, to ensure a considerable profit as well as the development of the company, depends not only every of its employees but also a good leadership, to guide it. And executives are ones who assume this accountability. As it stands, attaining profit is the golden rules for an executive as his part as leader and for the sake of enterprise.
In the second place, it is the profitability of company where lies its social responsibilities. When we judge a company, we tend to be influenced by our instinctive biases, which make the conclusion unfair. We tend to overemphasize the detrimental part and ignore the benefits it brings. This phenomenon can be explained by the public’s savor of media. Few of preeminent deeds done by the government is as appealing as the scandals which hold our eyes. Similarly, when we come to the social obligations of companies, we tend to be critical. Rivers are fouled by the paper factories, or one company wallows up another causing a series of disemployments, as we may concern. On the contrary, we simply ignore what they do in facilitating our daily lives. Phones, automobiles, computers, even clothes and papers, all of them are derived form no where but factories. Moreover, it is the company who produces a lot of changes of employment, whether these chances are more or less than those of disemployment. In a sense, the duty of company actually lies in its effort to manufacture its product and ensuring its own existence, and both are based on the premise of profitability.
While some may argue that companies are the profiteers of the society and communities, thus they are obliged to assume some moral responsibilities to reward the society. This allegation sounds reasonable, but it’s quite irrational. In the first place, what determines the interest of a company is not a society but a free market conducted by the consumers. In this observation, the company should try its best to cater to the consumers, not the society anyway. After all they are two quite different conceptions. And then, if large sums of money are power to social profit projects, what left ensure the survival of the company itself and that of its employees? Will another tragedy of disemployment happens? Thirdly, granted that the enterprise own a great deal to the society, it has been made up for by the tax it pays. It is the business of government to make use of these sums of money and to relocate it among the society, in the form of SSN (Social Security Number) for instance. Consequently, without balancing the responsibilities of companies and societies, we cannot mix them together and attribute them all to the former. Additionally, even if a donation is actually conducted by a company, in my view it is simply for the sake of the company itself to gain a fame or popularity, which in turn to ensure it profit.
As it stands, profit is the foundation of a company to survive, and where its social responsibilities lie. Other moral obligations of companies should be realized in other ways but for companies. To be the leader of the corporation, executives are just the one who leads the companies to a profitable prospect.
虽然以前也写过篇,但是滥的连我自己都不忍心看,^_^! 总算认认真真的写过改过一篇文章,想听听大家的意见!
观点:同意,executives 的任务就是Make money,这是由公司的社会角色决定的
1.利润是生存之本。一方面,我们的世界是Pragmatic的,达尔文的进化论说的,生存是第一位的;另一方面,Executive是公司的大脑,他不领导公司牟取利益,谁干呀?
2.如果一个公司它是盈利的,那么它在某种意义上就已经实现了它的社会责任了。人们意识不到这一点是天生的偏见。公司生产的产品,提供的就业机会不都是在执行它的社会职责嘛。而这些职能的根本就是要有利润。
3.有人说利润是来自社会的,所以就要回报社会。这个结论缺乏理性。一,利润的来源是市场是消费者,消费者和社会是两个概念。二,把钱都给别人了,公司的员工怎么办。三,公司不是交税了嘛,政府不就是用这个来实现资源重新配置,间接的实现公司的social responsibility吗?最后,就是有donation,那也是for the sake of itself.
sigh,自己看自己的东西怎么看都好,就是明知道也用argument的精神——只要说话就是有问题的来安慰自己,所以真的想听听大家怎么想的,谢谢^_^!! |
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