Chat with AIExam 2: Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
What are the consequences of not looking at various perspectives and the interests of other people involved while making a responsible ethical decision?
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VerifiedThe third step involved in ethical decision-making involves one of its more vital elements. We are asked to identify and consider all of the people affected by a decision, the people often called stakeholders. "Stakeholders," in this general sense, include all of the groups and/or individuals affected by a decision, policy, or operation of a firm or individual. Considering issues from a variety of perspectives other than one's own, and other than what local conventions suggest, helps make one's decisions more reasonable and responsible. To the contrary, thinking and reasoning from a narrow and personal point of view virtually guarantees that we will not understand the situation fully.Making decisions from a narrow and personal point of view likewise guarantees that we are likely to make a decision that does not give due consideration to other persons and perspectives.
What is moral imagination? How is it important?
(39) VerifiedCreativity in identifying options-also called "moral imagination"-is one element that distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not.
There is a role for science and theoretical reason in any study of ethics.
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In the ethical decision-making process, the issue identification step always follows the fact gathering step.
(35) Identify the barrier where individuals or groups select the option that meets the minimum decision criteria, the one that people can live with, even if it might not be the best.
(35) The best environment for high quality ethical decision making involves "thin air thinking."
(37) Stakeholders include only those groups and/or individuals within an organization affected by an internal decision, policy or operation of a firm or individual.
(38) Selecting the alternative that meets minimum decision criteria is known as ____.
(36) When faced with a situation that suggests two clear alternative resolutions, we often consider only those two clear paths, missing the fact that other alternatives might be possible. Considering limited alternatives is a stumbling block to responsible action that can be categorized as a(n) ____.
(33) The first step in the ethical decision-making process, when an individual is not presented with an issue from the start, is ____.
(29) Which of the following elements distinguish good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not?
(37) In the ethical decision-making process, once one examines the facts and identifies the ethical issues involved, one should next ____.
(34) Outline the importance of "walking a mile in another's shoes" and associate it with the fifth step of the ethical decision-making process.
(35) Kathy, your best friend and class mate, asks you to help her with a challenging ethical predicament. Which of the following would be your first step in the decision making process?
(29) "_____" include all of the groups and/or individuals affected by a decision, policy, or operation of a firm or individual.
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