Question: Rights and Stakeholder Analysis
The principle of rights is particularly useful in stakeholder analysis when conflicting legal or moral rights of individuals occur or when rights may be violated if certain courses of action are pursued. The following are guidelines for observing this principle:25
1. Identify the individuals whose rights may be violated.
2. Determine the legal and moral bases of these individuals' rights. Does the decision violate these rights on such bases?
3. Determine to what extent the action has moral justification from utilitarian or other principles if individual rights may be violated. National crises and emergencies may warrant overriding individual rights for the public good.