According to Socrates, this leads to an unexamined life not worth living.
Passivity
Individual codes of conduct regarding how one should live, how one should act, what one should do, what kind of a person should one be, etc. is sometimes referred to as:
morality.
Learning about the history of ethics through the works of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant etc, involves an approach to ethics that focuses on the
informational content of the class.
Identify the first step in making responsible ethical decisions.
Determine the facts.
Ethics requires that the promotion of human welfare be done
in a manner that is acceptable and reasonable from all relevant points of view.
In the broadest sense, which among the following can help explain ethical disagreements?
Perceptual differences.
Which ethical framework is based on the foundations of rules and the need for them to be followed, no matter the consequences?
Deontological framework of ethics.
Rawls' system of social justice as fairness is founded on all of the following except
equal distribution of benefits of a society.
A/an _____ approach to business is at the center of business ethics.
normative
Upon discovering a lost baseball glove, Joe decides to keep it, concluding that if he did not keep it, someone else would anyway. He figures, that if not the owner, at least he may benefit from it. This is an indication of a cognitive barrier arising from
considering only limited alternatives.
Which among the following distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not?
Moral imagination.
Which ethical framework goes against the ethical principle of obeying certain duties or responsibilities, no matter the end result?
Utilitarian framework of ethics.
One of the major challenges associated with ethical decision-making is better understood by realizing that decisions involve
the interests of multiple stakeholders.
_____ was part of the same social movement that gave rise to modern democratic market capitalism.
Utilitarianism
The model for making ethically responsible decisions suggests that a certain type of _____ can lead to making bad ethical choices.
ignorance
Which among the following steps involves predicting the likely, foreseeable, and the possible consequences to all the relevant stakeholders?
Compare and weigh the alternatives.
An ethical tradition that directs us to decide based on overall consequences of our actions is termed
Utilitarianism
Identify, among the following, one that is not a cognitive barrier to responsible, ethical decision-making.
Not following simplified decision rules.
The study of ethics is different from the study of psychology and sociology in that the latter fields are
descriptive in nature.
Which among the following can result in a scenario where the number of regulated areas becomes improbable and unmanageable?
Telling businesses that its ethical responsibilities end with obedience to law.
In context to the subject, Nazi Germany and apartheid in South Africa reflect that
obedience to law is insufficient to fulfill one's ethical duties.
The essence of utilitarianism is
its reliance on consequences.
According to which type of ethical framework would child labor in any country be tolerated?
Utilitarianism
Which of the following focuses on the concept of practices and what type of people these practices are creating?
Virtue ethics framework of ethics.
Consequences, justifications, principles, rights, or duties are all methods to
compare and weigh alternatives.
Under which of the following do the legislative (bureaucratic) side and the administrative side of an organization work together?
Utilitarian framework of ethics.
Fundamentally, the concept of _____ is central to the deontological tradition.
moral rights
Which among the following is responsible for the fact that theoretical reason and science play an important role in any study of ethics?
Importance associated with determining facts
Respecting employee privacy while also adequately managing the workplace at a time when workplace e-mail was in its infancy, and no laws regarding it were in place, is an example for which one of the following?
Laws cannot anticipate every new business dilemma that might be faced.
A manager honoring a commitment, although resulting in unfavorable consequences, is highlighting the difficulties associated with which type of ethical framework?
Utilitarian framework of ethics.
Which among the following is not a legal right?
Particular pension funds
Utilitarian thinking would promote the following policies except to:
regulate advertising.
The branch of ethics that deals with the reasoning about how one should act is called
normative ethics.
What according to the authors will prove best for optimally satisfying the various interests in the two approaches to utilitarianism?
Market-based solutions.
Philosophical ethics argues that a key test of _____ is whether or not a decision would be acceptable from the point of view of all parts involved.
ethical legitimacy
_____ set the standards or guidelines for determining what one should do, how one should act, what type of person one should be.
Norms
This inclines one to act or to choose one way rather than another.
Values
Identify the step that precedes monitoring the outcome in making an ethically responsible decision.
Making a decision
The Americans with Disabilities Act is an example best describing the fact that
a perspective that compliance is enough relies on a misleading understanding of law.
Examining business institutions from a social rather than an individual perspective is referred to as
decision-making for social responsibility.