Ethics, Morals & Values
This personal statement identifies the core virtues that guide how someone wants to live and be remembered.
What is a credo?
In the traditional footbridge trolley problem, pushing one person would save this many people.
What is five?
This ethical type fails to recognize that an ethical issue exists.
Who is the ethically clueless person?
This effect occurs when the presence of other people makes each individual less likely to intervene
What is the bystander effect?
Under Milton Friedman’s shareholder-primacy theory, managers primarily serve as agents of this group.
Who are the owners or shareholders?
The debate gave students these three original choices concerning the gun-manufacturing controversy.
What are discontinue or restrict, apologize and continue, or resign?
Unlike personal morality or ethical judgment, this standard consists of rules formally recognized and enforced by government.
What is the law?
In the Heinz dilemma, the druggist charged this amount for a dose that cost approximately $200 to produce.
What is $2,000?
This ethical type asks, “Can we legally get away with it?” instead of, “Is this right?”
Who is the amoral technician?
“Someone else will take care of it” demonstrates this psychological cause of bystander inaction.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
Under Freeman’s theory, employees, customers, suppliers, communities, lenders, government, and owners are all members of this group.
Who are stakeholders?
The employee’s $750,000 production bonus creates this ethical problem between personal gain and objective judgment.
What is a conflict of interest?
Asking this question connects present ethical decisions to a person’s long-term character and legacy.
What is “How do I want to be remembered?”
Changing the dying woman from Heinz’s wife to a stranger tests whether this affects a person’s perceived duty to help.
What is a personal relationship?
“Everybody does it” and “I was just following orders” are favorite expressions of this ethical type.
Who is the ethical rationalizer?
“No one else looks concerned, so perhaps nothing is wrong” demonstrates this psychological phenomenon.
What is pluralistic ignorance?
Unsupported or misleading environmental claims are commonly known by this colorful term.
What is greenwashing?
A strong argument should include a claim, reasons, evidence, a response to objections, and an acknowledgment of this unavoidable cost.
What is a tradeoff?
The Planned Parenthood assignment required students to evaluate the proposed expansion using these three distinct considerations.
hat are legality, ethicality, and morality?
In the CEO trolley problem, closing a plant employing 100 people may prevent this larger number of employees from losing their jobs.
What is 1,000?
This person adjusts ethical standards to fit the current group or workplace culture.
Who is the ethical chameleon?
Enron used these entities to move debt and losses off its balance sheet.
What are special-purpose entities?
Philanthropy creates this effect when charitable giving distracts attention from harmful core business practices.
What is the halo effect?
This ethical lens asks who receives the benefits and who bears the risks, costs, and power under a proposal.
What is the stakeholder lens?
A person who identifies the strongest opposing argument, acknowledges a weakness, and states what facts could change the decision demonstrates this kind of decision-making.
What is reflective ethical decision-making?
Pressing a button may feel morally easier than physically pushing a person, even when the outcome is identical, because of this psychological factor.
What is psychological distance?
Unlike a chameleon who follows the group, this ethical type follows and defends the person in power to gain approval or advancement.
Who is the ethical sycophant?
This five-step progression explains how small ethical exceptions can eventually become accepted organizational conduct.
What is pressure, rationalization, silence, repetition, and normalization?
This environmental effect occurs when a more efficient or greener technology causes enough additional consumption to offset some of its environmental benefits.
What is the rebound effect?
When management blames the employee for the advertising campaign, these materials can establish who authorized, approved, questioned, or directed the decisions.
What are internal records and communications?