Business Ethics BA 300 Questions And
Answers
Kinds of Diffusion of responsibility 1. Responsibility is taken away. 2. Shared with others
in decision making groups. 3. Obscured by organization hierarchy. 4. Diluted by psychological
distance between their victims.
Roles A firmly established r...
Kinds of Diffusion of responsibility 1. Responsibility is taken away. 2. Shared with others
in decision making groups. 3. Obscured by organization hierarchy. 4. Diluted by psychological
distance between their victims.
Roles A firmly established role in an organization may reduce an individual's sense of his
or her own responsibility for a given ethically related action.
Deindividuation Is the process of which an individual minimizes his or her personal
responsibility on an action by focusing on his or her assigned role. In other words you are only
fulfilling the function the organization gave you to fulfill.
Zimbardo prison experiment Study involving 24 healthy subjects given the role of prison
guards or inmates. The people assigned to be guards became hostile and aggressive, those
assigned to be prisoners generally felt hopeless and victimized.
Business Law Reflecting society's minimum norms and standards of business conduct.
, Business Ethics BA 300 Questions And
Answers
The Domain of Ethics Includes the law but extends beyond it to include the ethical
standards and issues that the law does not address.
Corporate Rules / Internal Rules These rules exceed the minimum requirements of state
imposed law. They also shape ethical decisions inside an organization every bit as much as laws
on the books.
The Fair Employment and Housing Act. / Title 7 (Federal) California and Federal Law
prohibit discrimination in employment based on race, gender, religion, color and national origin.
Federal Organizational Sentencing Guidelines Business cannot be imprisoned if convicted
of a crime but they can be fined. In 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. The 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 is its CULPABILITY
SCORE from 0 - 10 starting at 5.
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