Exam 6: Ethical Decision Making and Behavior

Rewards encourage decision makers to follow through on their ethical choices.

Why do leaders often choose the ethical course of action but then fail to follow through on their choice?

In ______, organizational members want to appear moral instead of being moral.

What steps can you take to improve your ability to make and follow through on ethical choices based on material from this chapter?

Explain the role that perspective taking plays in the 12 questions decision-making format.

______ refers to making an ethical issue more visible or salient.

______ recognizes the presence of an ethical issue.

In which stage of the four-component model, does one determine the course of action to take?

In the maintaining norms schema, people believe they have a moral obligation to maintain social order.

Individuals with a/an ______ locus of control believe that they can determine what happens to them.

According to the Lonergan/Baird Method, Step 1 is to ______ and consider what works and what doesn't.

______ and ______ are other-suffering emotions.

All of the following are advantages of Kidder's ethical checkpoints EXCEPT:

All of the following are examples of ethical blind spots EXCEPT:

Which of the following will increase your ethical sensitivity?

What similarities do you note in the ethical checkpoints, 12 questions, and SAD formula? Based on these commonalties, what steps should be part of every ethical decision?

Researchers in cognitive neuroscience or neuroethics are also challenging the notion that ethical thinking is devoid of emotion.

One of the cons of the Lonergan/Baird method is that it is not widely used.

Being driven by duty to make and act on ethical decisions largely on loyalty to the group is called

In the ______ stage of the four-component model of ethical decision-making, the leader must put moral values above other considerations in order to follow through on ethical choices.