Usochi Joanann Ilozumba

Title of Dissertation: Justification, Differentiation, And Application of Suchanek’s Ethical Compass with Virtue Ethics in Automated Business Decisions and Good Leadership

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
University: HHL – Handelshochschule Leipzig
Scholarship: Karl Schlecht Stiftung
Cohort: 8th Cohort, since 2021
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• Short Abstract

  New technological innovations have drawn a continuously broadening line between traditional businesses and automated businesses. These automated businesses utilize databases and coded algorithms to develop, strategize and make business decisions that are far-reaching to all their stakeholders because of their technological edge over traditional businesses. The adoption of automated systems in businesses presents new challenges which can be generally summarized as “harmful” to employees and clients alike. Harms such as a breach in data privacy, lack of transparency and explainability of regulations and interactions with clients, algorithmic biases due to race, belief, sexual orientation, culture, and so on that could impede possible customers or job seekers from getting what is their due, etc. are but a few of potential problems that automation poses. In this research, a deepening in the knowledge and application of Dr. Andreas Suchanek’s ethical compass to business decisions and good leadership will be done. The ethical compass offers a heuristic design for confronting business problems, with the phrase “do no harm” as its core. It serves as an instrument for measuring where one is in his/her personal and social embeddedness while using his freedom responsibly in action. It is not a navigating tool for action, rather it is one for reflection, as well as a voice of conscience to propel or counter one’s actions for the good. Moreover, a virtue ethics perspective will be combined with the ethical compass to give more insight into the practical application of the ethical compass among human agents who need internal motivation to act right and make decisions with practical wisdom. As its method, the study will employ qualitative research as its core method through interviews and archival data collections. It will also engage in empirical observations of the implementation of its ethical compass-virtue ethics framework in automated businesses or organizations. Finally, an extensive literature review will be realized to provide theoretical foundations for research.

• Research Interests

  • Business Ethics
  • Legitimacy and Corporate Governance
  • Ethics of AI in Business
  • Philosophical Ethics
  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Feminist philosophy

• Education

  • 2016-2018: Master of Philosophy in Philosophical Ethics and Anthropology, Italy
  • 2013-2016: Bachelor of Philosophy, Italy
  • 2005-2010: Bachelor of Science in Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Nigeria

• Professional and Academic Career

  • 2018-2021: Full-Time Faculty of Philosophical Ethics and Anthropology, Pan-Atlantic University – Lagos Business School, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 2016-2017: Program Coordinator for JUMP Leadership Program, International Cultural Centre Rocca Romana, Rome, Italy
  • 2012: Procurement Officer, Juhel Nigeria Limited, Enugu, Nigeria

• Publications

  • Ilozumba, Usochi Joanann. “Common Good Principle.” In Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, ed. Deborah C. Poff and Alex C. Micha-los, 1–5. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_522-1
  • Ilozumba, Usochi. “The Home as the Primary Source of Intellectual Develo-pment: From a Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspective.” In Pe-ople, Care and Work in the Home, ed. M Gamal Abdelmonem and Antonio Argandoña, 110-124. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

• Conference Contributions: Talks

  • 2020: New Waves in Feminism, “Feminism, A Relic of History or A Need? Unmasking a New Standpoint to Difference Feminism’s View on Women”, Nigeria

• Conference Contributions: Posters

  • N/A

• Memberships

  • Member of Research Group, Virtue Ethics in Business (VEiB), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.