Exam 5: Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility

Caleb is a manager at Computer-Care Company. He is expected to consider the effort of each decision alternative on all parties and select the one that optimizes the satisfaction for the greatest number of people. This is an example of the:

What type of a stakeholder would a nature conservation group be for a paper manufacturing company?

List and define the stages of moral development.

Individuals, at the preconventional level, are concerned with external rewards and punishments and obey authority to avoid detrimental personal consequences.

Of the following, which may whistle-blowers suffer?

The ethical concept that argues that moral behaviors produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people is objective dualism.

_____ is the responsibility that goes beyond societal expectations to contribute to the community welfare.

List the four responsibilities of corporate social performance.

The great majority of managers operate at the:

When the USS Indianapolis sank after being torpedoed, one Navy pilot disobeyed orders and risked is life to save men who were being picked off by land sharks. The Navy pilot was operating from the _____ level of moral development.

Briefly explain the justice approach to ethics and then explain the three types of justice.

Organizations that are _____ responsible consider the effects of their actions on all stakeholder groups and may invest in a number of philanthropic causes that benefit stakeholders.

Human beings have fundamental rights and liberties that cannot be taken away by another individual's decision. This ethical decision making approach is known as the:

List three of the six moral rights that should be considered during decision making.

The decision by Paula Reid, the manager who statted the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal in Catagena, was based largely on the _____ approach

_____ is not part of the structures and systems pillar of an ethical organization.

_____ to ethical decision-making is consistent with due process, free consent, privacy, freedom of conscience and free speech.

Unfortunately, discretionary responsibility is involuntary and is mandated by economics, law, or ethics.

Disk Replacement Services has just completed a procedure manual to handle employee grievances. One of the main criteria is to make it clear to employees that rules will be administered fairly and consistently. Disk Replacement operates on:

Approximately 20% of American adults, according to your text, never reach the postconventional level of moral development.