Ethics Tests
What is the family test?
How would you feel explaining the decision to your family as if you were the one making that decision.
What is another word for shrinkflation?
Downsizing
What is one example of a stakeholder ?
Answers vary.
The Trolley Experiment stress tests our _____ decision making.
Ethical.
What state did the Chicago Tylenol crisis take place?
Illinois.
What is the newspaper test?
How would you react to something if it was on the front line of a newspaper?
What company does Julie work for?
Any chip company.
Name 2 types of stakeholders in a school
What is the burger dilemma based on?
The 1982 Tylenol crisis.
What is the mentor test?
Would your mentor do.
What caused Julie and Dave to have to do something about their potato chips?
The price of potatoes went up.
(Drought)
List 3 stakeholders impacted on a Snow Day
(Now talk about how each is impacted)
What changed in second scenario in the Trolley Experiment?
Instead of pulling a lever, you need to push someone off a bridge to save the 5.
Which company had their medicine recalled after many people died from poisoning.
Johnson & Johnson
What is the philosophy concerned with doing the most amount of good for the most amount of people?
Utilitarianism.
What is it when a company shrinks the net weight of a product without changing the package size?
Downsizing.
What is a stakeholder?
Anyone who will be affected by a change/decsion in a workplace/business.
How is the utilitarian test related to this dilemma.
Would you choose to pull a lever and be the cause of someones death or let 5 people die and do nothing.
Name the administration that controls the labeling of food and drugs.
The FDA / Food and Drug Administration.
What test can be difficult to use in real world situations?
Utilitarianism.
Downsizing is considered a _______ practice.
Deceptive.
Name the three most common key stakeholders:
Employees, customers, and stockholders.
Explain the problem with using the Trolley Experiment as an instrument to demonstrate ethical decision making.
This scenario seems far fetched and some people don't take the experiment seriously.
What company has been criticized for their deceptive calorie labeling?
CRUMBL.