Exam 2: Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts

Which of the following is true of inattentional blindness?

Outline the thought process of responsible persons comparing and weighing alternatives while considering the effects of a decision on their own integrity and character.

What is normative myopia?

Explain how the ethical decision-making process does not end with making a decision.

A person who acts in a way that is based upon a careful consideration of the facts has acted in a more ethically responsible way than a person who acts without deliberation.

If we are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding details, no matter how obvious. According to Bazerman and Chugh, this phenomenon is known as ____.

The inability to recognize ethical issues while dealing with the financial aspect of business decisions is called ____.

Consequences, justifications, principles, rights, or duties are all methods to:

Jim resides in the vicinity of a steel manufacturing firm. Any changes in the pollution control or waste treatment policy of the firm indirectly affects Jim. In this sense, Jim is a(n) ____.

Focusing failures result in moments where we ask ourselves, "How could I have missed that?" According to Bazerman and Chugh, this phenomenon is known as:

Which of the following is the second step of the ethical decision-making process?

When does issue identification become the first step in the ethical decision-making process?

Speaking on a cell phone while driving, and as a result, missing a highway turn-off by mistake is an example of ____.

In the ethical decision-making process, identify the step that involves predicting the likely, foreseeable, and the possible consequences to all the relevant stakeholders.

In an ethical decision-making process, moral imagination helps individuals make ethically responsible decisions. Identify the step in which moral imagination is critical.

A long tradition in philosophical ethics argues that a key test for _____ is whether or not a decision would be acceptable from the point of view of all parties involved.

A critical element of comparing and weighing the alternatives is the consideration of ways to mitigate, minimize, or compensate for any possible harmful consequences.

The inability to recognize ethical issues is known as ____.

Which of the following is true of moral imagination?

Normative myopia occurs only in business.