Implementing Business Ethics
Business Ethics an Overview
Ethical Issues
Ethical Decision Making
Misc.
100
Exemplified by the "Greatest Happiness Principle"?
What is the Utilitarian Theory?
100
The principles, values, and standards that guide behavior in the world of business.
What is Business Ethics?
100
The quality of being just, equitable, and impartial.
What is Fairness?
100
According to Kant, his theory should be __________ and not subjective.
What is Universal?
100
Formal statements that describe what an organization expects of its employees.
What are the Codes of Conduct?
200
The Universal theory ethics is a deontological ethical theory first proposed by this German philosopher.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
200
An organization's obligation to miximize its positive impact on stakeholder's.
What is Social Responsibility?
200
According to Aristotle, ______________ is the ultimate end.
What is Happiness?
200
An act created largely in response to widespread corporate accounting scandals.
What is Sarbanes-Oxley Act
200
Comprehensive list of statements, sometimes altruistic or inspirational, that serve as principles and basis for rules of conduct.
What is the Code of Ethics?
300
This approach believes that people have dignity based on their ability to choose freely what they will do with their lives, and they have a fundamental moral right to have these choices respected.
What is the Rights Approach?
300
As consumers, we have the right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to choose, and the right to be heard.
What is the Consumers' Bill of Rights?
300
The second formulation of the categorical imperative dictates that we always respect humanity and treat them as ends in themselves, never as ________________ to our own ends.
What is Means?
300
Defined as a set of values, norms, and artifacts that members of an organization share.
What is Corporate Culture
300
Consists of everything in our surroundings that is made by people--both tangible and intangible things including values, norms and artifacts.
What is Culture?
400
This body of ethical thought takes into account the particular context of an act, rather than judging it according to absolute moral standards.
What is Situational Ethics?
400
Those people whose continued association with a business is absolutely necessary for a firm's survival.
What are Primary Stakeholders?
400
For Kant, ______________________ are irrelevant to the morality of an action.
What are Consequences, Effects?
400
Refers to the specific principles or rules that people use to decide what is right or wrong.
What are Morals or Moral Philosophy?
400
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
What is the Golden Rule?
500
The class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.
What is Consequentialism
500
Economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic.
What are Levels of Social Responsibility?
500
Conduct that was unwelcome; severe, pervasive, and offensive, that a reasonable person would also find offensive.
What is a Hostile Work Environment?
500
Exposing an employer's wrongdoing to outsiders such as the media or government regulatory agencies.
What is Whistle Blowing?