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MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024
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MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONSINTRODUCTION: - answer
- Making decisions that are ethical requires the ability to do what? - answer the ability to
make distinctions between competing choices.
- What is the Josephson Institute? - answer It is a non-profit training and consulting
organization based out of LA and is active nationwide.
- What is the basis of ethically defensible decisions and the foundation of well-lived
lives? - answer The Six Pillars of Character
+ I. MAKING SENSE OF ETHICS - answer
- Where do we make most of our ethical decisions? - answer We make them in a world
of economic, professional and social pressures, which can obscure moral issues.
- What is ethics? - answer Ethics refers to principles that define behavior as right, good
and proper.
- Are the terms ethics and values interchangeable? - answerNo. Ethics is concerned
with how a moral person SHOULD behave, whereas values are the inner judgements
that determine how a person ACTUALLY behaves.
+ The Importance of Universality - answer
- Most people have convictions about what is right and wrong based on what? -
answerbased on religious beliefs, cultural roots, family background, personal
experiences, laws, organizational values, professional norms and political habits.
- There is nothing wrong with having strong personal and professional moral convictions
about right and wrong but? - answerbut unfortunately, some people are moral
imperialists who seek to impose their personal moral judgments on others.
+ When Values Collide - answer
- Our values are what we prize and our value system is what? - answerour value system
is the order in which we prize them.
- The value system ranks our likes and dislikes and our value system determines what?
- answerit determines how we will behave in certain situations.
, - The values we consistently rank higher than others are our what? - answerthey are our
core values, which define character and personality.
+ From Values to Principles - answer
- What are the rules of conduct that derive from ethical values? - answerEthical
principles
+ Ethics and Action - answer
- Ethics is about what? - answerits about putting principles into action.
- Consistency between what we say, we value and what else? - answerwhat our actions
say, we value, its a matter of integrity.
- When dealing with ethics: What are the three don'ts in self restraint? - answerNot
doing what you have the power to do.
Not doing what you have the right to do.
Not doing what you want to do.
+ Why Be Ethical - answer
- What are the five reasons for being ethical? - answerInner benefit, personal
advantage, approval, religion, and habit.
- What are two obstacles to being ethical? - answerSelf interest and pursuit of
happiness
-Define the ethics of self interest: - answerWhen the motivation for ethical behavior is
self interest, decision-making is reduced to RISK-REWARD calculations.
- Defining the pursuit of happiness? - answer1. our values, what we prize and desire,
determine what we think will make us happy.
2. The morally mature individual finds happiness in grander pursuits than money, status,
sex and mood altering substances.
3. Unity between principle belief and honorable behavior is the foundation for real
happiness.
+ II. THE SIX PILLARS OF CHARACTER - answer
- What are the six pillars of character? - answerTrustworthiness, respect, responsibility,
fairness, caring and citizenship.
- What are the ethical values that guide our choices? - answerThe six pillars of
character.
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