Ética, responsabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável nas organizações

Abstract

It is an ethical reflection about responsibility in organizations. The research effort promotes the approximation with the object of interest in the reflection through a conceptual framework structured from concepts about ethics, responsibility, organizations, freedom and moral conscience. The ethical analysis of relationships, both in the external and internal environment of organizations, allows an approach with a modified action, enhanced by the technique and able to interfere - even to compromise - the conditions of life on the globe. The research seeks to recognize prevailing characteristics in the current world context, to establish a temporal positioning and, in this way, identify the main dimensions impacted by the organizations' actions. Hans Jonas's approach to responsibility–as well as the documents Brundtland Report, the Earth Charter and Schedule 2030–seeks to establish conditions for recognizing, analyzing and validating the possibility that the concept of sustainable development can be used for the organizations to define a level of responsibility and care for the community of life. The research analyzes the relationship between sustainable development and the responsibility of organizations, through a reflection that seeks an ethical value in the concept of sustainable development and it is concluded with the analysis of a reflective relationship between ethics, organizations and sustainable development. The research problem guides the search for reasons that may justify the attribution of ethical responsibility to organizations, as well as seeking to recognize the contribution that a responsible organization can give to the construction of a model of sustainable development for the planet.