Exam 7: Business Ethics Fundamentals

Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Lawrence Kohlberg found that most adults never get to the third level of moral development.What implications for management does this observation have?

Which of the following is not a source of a manager's values that is external to the firm?

In Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral development,the individual's primary concern is for others.

Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Powers and Vogel have suggested that there are six major elements or capacities that are essential to making moral judgments: (1)moral imagination,(2)moral identification and ordering,(3)moral evaluation,(4)tolerance of moral disagreement and ambiguity,(5)integration of managerial and moral competence,and (6)a sense of moral obligation.What is the link of each of these to personal and organizational ethics?

The area of ethics that is concerned with supplying and justifying a coherent moral system of thinking and judging is called

A 2009 Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey indicated that more than half of Americans believe people use the same ethical standards in business as they do in their personal lives.

Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Discuss the relevance of one's motivations to his or her ethical actions.

The forces that most often come into conflict with ethics in a business setting are economic and social.

The majority of Americans think that ethics is about the same as it was fifty years ago.

An NBES Survey concluded that ethical misconduct

The major questions related to the conventional approach to business ethics are "Whose norms do we use?" and "What norms are prevailing?"

Virtually all companies that exhibit moral management have had that outlook since they were founded.

Normative ethics depends on whether "everyone is doing it" to justify moral decisions and actions.

Ethical egoism is based on the idea that the individual should seek to minimize self-interests.

Provide a short answer to each of these questions.Be sure to fully explain your answer. Discuss how Bernie Madoff and ashleymadison.com are illustrations of immoral management.

Amoral management relies primarily on a compliance strategy that focuses on obedience to the law.

An ethical principle based on the idea that an individual should maximize their own self-interests is called

The public's view of business ethics has always been very high until the recent scandals.

The population hypothesis regarding ethical management models is

Provide a short answer to each of these questions.Be sure to fully explain your answer. If business ethics have,in reality,declined over the past decades,what are the primary reasons for this movement?