Exam 2: Deciding Whats Right: a Prescriptive Approach

Matching Approach and Weakness (each can be used more than once) -Being able to see the situation through others' eyes is a key moral reasoning skill.

Matching Approach and Weakness (each can be used more than once) -This approach that stresses community standards is limited in business because in many areas of business there is limited agreement about what the standards are.

Matching Approach and Weakness (each can be used more than once) -An individual's principles may be in conflict with what is best and causes the least amount of harm to another individual. For example, an individual who believes that he or she should not lie would be conflicted about telling the Nazi's he or she is hiding Jews in the basement.

The __________ challenges one to ask, "how would you feel if your behavior appeared in The Wall Street Journal?"

______ is probably the best-known consequentialist theory.

Matching Key Terms and Descriptions (each can be used more than once) -Focuses on the results or consequences of the decision or action.

The Golden Rule asks, "How would you feel if your behavior appeared publicly on _____?

Creativity and thinking out of the box are just a scoundrel's way of saying that coming up with alternatives in solving how you handle ethical issues are valuable skills to keep you from being caught.

Which of these is the final step in the sound ethical decision making in business?

Disclosure rule is appropriate to explore in which step in the sound ethical decision making in business?

Rachael likes to win. She also holds the value of being honest and having high levels of integrity. Given that these two values, winning and integrity, are in conflict, Rachael likely confronts which of these often?

A major challenge of _____ approaches is deciding which duty, obligation, right, or principle takes precedence because, as we said earlier, ethical dilemmas often pit these against each other.

An ethical dilemma is defined as a situation where two or more "right" values are in conflict.

Matching Approach and Weakness (each can be used more than once) -In which step you ask yourself what a person of integrity would do in this situation. In attempting to answer this question, you may find it useful to identify the relevant moral community and consider what that community would advise.

A utility ethics perspective considers the actor's character, motivations, and intentions.

Although all of the philosophical approaches have limitations, an individual must choose one approach and follow its guidance in every situation.

You are working with an important vendor who has offered you a "sweet" deal. However, the vendor has made it clear that he wants a decision now and your internal warning system (i.e. your gut) is telling you that this deal might be an ethical dilemma. Using what you have learned from this chapter, briefly describe how you should proceed. Will you answer him now? How will you think about the "dilemma" and respond to the vendor?

Generally, ethical dilemmas are not routine. Therefore, there is no way that an individual can be prepared or informed for a problem ahead of time.

An appearance of a conflict of interest can be as damaging as an actual conflict.

Matching Key Terms and Descriptions (each can be used more than once) -"What kind of world would this be if everyone behaved this way or made this kind of decision in this type of situation?"