Bluffing Game Essay

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Commentary on the Ethical Issue of Business Bluffing “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?” an article by Albert Z. Carr focuses deeply on how job applicants, managers, and different level of positions in a company should behave and act. The first thing that he mentioned is about how poker players have their own game strategies, so does business man. Albert Z. Carr believes that when a bluff is made in a poker game, it certainly does not resemble the personality of the player. On the other hand depending on the situation where if a businessman is bluffing or playing tricks on his customers. Carr makes an argument that, “Business are game ethics, different from the ethics of religion”. The tight competition among business competitors allows its corporate owners to use the “bluffing” technique of a poker game as a strategic tool to defeat its competition. The fact that all human beings have its own moral and ethics, when it comes to bluffing, most executives tends to feel the pressure to deceive. However, they are restrained to do so due to their religious idealism or personal integrity. Therefore, the player must first understand the game and its rules, which would be the ethical morals that set the standards of a society. In this game, everybody is playing to win and the person who wins is the man who is able to take the seat in the business game and master the principles in how the game is played which also includes its ethical aspects. This winner may use all kinds of techniques, including bluffing to win and as long as he or she follows the respected business ethics, that person clearly is a winner. Now, the definition of a ‘win’ always depends on each individual’s own interpretation of their meaning of being a winner of the game. Although, the standard society’s interpretation of being a winner would be those corporations who are able to generate the highest
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