Exam 2: Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts

Stakeholders include only those groups and/or individuals who take calls on internal decisions,policies,or operations.

The Arthur Andersen auditors did not notice how low Enron had fallen in terms of its unethical decisions over a period of time.According to Bazerman and Chugh,this omission is an example of _____.

Explain the role of the sciences in the study of ethics.

The omission known as change blindness occurs when _____.

Within a business setting,only the ethical implications of professional decision making should be considered.

Which of the following qualities would an effective decision maker display when considering the available alternatives for ethical decision making?

Which of the following is true of inattentional blindness?

Issue identification becomes the first step of the ethical decision-making process when no ethical issue or dilemma is known to the decision maker at the beginning.

What are the consequences of not looking at various perspectives and the interests of other people involved while making a responsible ethical decision?

Inattentional blindness is the inability to recognize ethical issues.

Explain the importance of moral imagination with an example.

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.

Responsibility for the circumstances that can encourage ethical behavior and can discourage unethical behavior falls predominantly to the business management and executive team.

"_____" include all of the groups and/or individuals affected by a decision,policy,or operation of a firm or individual.

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

Consequences or justifications always override every other consideration when comparing alternatives for ethical decision making.

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 _____.

A person's understanding of facts does not affect the degree of reasonability of his ethical judgements.

Within a business setting,individuals must consider the ethical implications of both personal and professional decision making.Manager,teacher,and student-body president are examples of _____ roles.

Identify the attitude which leads to an unexamined life not worth living according to Socrates?