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BA300. Ethical Decision Making inBusiness
Process of individual ethical decision making - answer1. Moral Awareness.
2. Ethical Judgement.
3. Ethical Behavior.
Sound Ethical Decision Making - answer1. Gather the facts.
2.Define the ethical issues.
3. Identify the affected parties.
4. Identify the consequences.
5. Identify the obligations.
6. Consider your character and integrity.
7. Think creatively about potential actions.
8. Check your gut.
Moral awareness-
People are more likely to recognize a moral issue when. - answer1. Peers consider it
normally problematic.
2. Moral language is used when the problem is presented.
3. A decision could cause serious harm to others.
Pygmalion Effect - answerWhen the behavior of an individual is shaped by the way he is
treated as an individual.
Ethics and Organization Culture - answer1. Who shapes your ethical decisions. (Peers,
Superiors)
2. Pygmarian Effect
3. Rewards and Punnishments.(Good conduct:Reward, Bad Conduct: Punnishment)
4. Goals (Going towards something)
5. Diffusion of responsibility
6. Roles (They told me I had to do this and only this)
Goals - answerWhile goals are good to help keep the company in good condition. Some
companies will only focus on attaining that goal at the cost of maintaining ethical
treatment.
Roles and Deindividuation - answerA phenomenon that occurs when immersion in a
group causes people to become less aware of their individual values.
, Diffusion of Responsibility - answerReduction in sense of responsibility often felt by
individuals in a group; may be responsible for the bystander effect
Ethics and the Law - answer1.The relationship between ethics and the law.
2.Corporate rules as "law".
3. Discrimination laws.
4. Whistleblower laws.
5. Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines.
True or False Question - answerAnything I do as an employee considered ethical?
Anything I do that violates the law is by definition ethical?
Corporate Rules and the Law - answerOften times, company imposed policies exceed
that of the law. Stealing company secrets as your own can not only violate company
laws but federal laws as well.
Racial Discrimination - answerThe law prohibits racial discrimination.
Whistleblower laws - answerLaws that prohibit companies from firing or enacting
negative action for retaliating against a company for misconduct.
Culpability Score - answerThe key in determining the organization's criminal sentence,
the amount of the fine the business would have to pay the government for its ethical
misconduct; from 0 - 10 starting at 5.
Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines - answerIn 1991 in response to corporate
scandals the federal government established guidelines for judges to use in sentencing
business and other organizations ultimately convicted of crime, such as defrauding the
government, bribery or other offences.
Fact Gathering - answer1.Overconfidence about your knowledge of the facts.
2. Falling into the confirmation trap.
Falling into the confirmation trap. - answerConfirming with information from only one
sector of the data pool but fail to look at the rest of the data pool. To avoid this, think
about ways that I could be wrong.
Consequences for self vs. others - answerDon't overweigh the consequences of your
actions on you than to weigh the consequences of your actions upon other people.
Looking at consequences - answer1. Reduced number of consequences.
2. Consequences for self vs. others.
3. Consequences as risk.
4. Escalation of comittment
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