BA:300 FINAL SDSU Naida Austin
Questions And Answers
Who shapes your ethical decisions? Peers, Superiors and Organizational Norms
Define Pygmalion Effect You become what others expect from you
Rewards and Punishments Reward and punishments towards ethical dilemmas reinforce
our actions towards them
Goals Pros: Goals set focus to meet an outcome
Cons: If goal set to be meet no matter what the cost
Diffusion of Responsibility allows individual to escape responsibility
4 ways of Diffusion of Responsibility 1.Responsibility is taken away
2. Shared with others
3.Obscured by organizational hierarchy(pass up and down blame on chain of command)
4. Distance
, BA:300 FINAL SDSU Naida Austin
Questions And Answers
Define Roles and Deindividuation Roles: established reduce responsibility
Deindivation: loss of self awareness in groups (minimizes responsibility by saying you only
focused on the role you were given)
Define the Pygmalion Effect You become what others expect from you
What are the relationships between ethics and law 1.Corporate rules as "law" (policies and
guidelines)
2.Discrimination laws
3.Whistle blower laws
4. Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines(Culpability score determines punishment)
Cognitive Biases: Fact Gathering Overconfidence about your knowledge of the facts
Cognitive Biases: Fact Gathering Falling into Confirmation Trap (getting data that
matches previous data already believed
Questions And Answers
Who shapes your ethical decisions? Peers, Superiors and Organizational Norms
Define Pygmalion Effect You become what others expect from you
Rewards and Punishments Reward and punishments towards ethical dilemmas reinforce
our actions towards them
Goals Pros: Goals set focus to meet an outcome
Cons: If goal set to be meet no matter what the cost
Diffusion of Responsibility allows individual to escape responsibility
4 ways of Diffusion of Responsibility 1.Responsibility is taken away
2. Shared with others
3.Obscured by organizational hierarchy(pass up and down blame on chain of command)
4. Distance
, BA:300 FINAL SDSU Naida Austin
Questions And Answers
Define Roles and Deindividuation Roles: established reduce responsibility
Deindivation: loss of self awareness in groups (minimizes responsibility by saying you only
focused on the role you were given)
Define the Pygmalion Effect You become what others expect from you
What are the relationships between ethics and law 1.Corporate rules as "law" (policies and
guidelines)
2.Discrimination laws
3.Whistle blower laws
4. Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines(Culpability score determines punishment)
Cognitive Biases: Fact Gathering Overconfidence about your knowledge of the facts
Cognitive Biases: Fact Gathering Falling into Confirmation Trap (getting data that
matches previous data already believed
