Question 1

What is moral awareness? Discuss briefly the six basic elements of moral awareness.

Accepted Answer

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Question 2

Incrementalism refers to:

Accepted Answer

A) Justifying unethical behaviors as orders from their manager 
B) Employee has tendoncy of imitating or accepting the values of others 
C) Turning a blind eye to unethical behavior because if is beneficial to them 
D) Employees that engage in minor unethical infractions that eventually leads to major ethical infractions 
E) None of the above

Question 3

Under this principle,the torturing of terrorists is acceptable, as they have brough such actions to themselves is referred to as:

Accepted Answer

A) Attribution of blame 
B) Dehumanization 
C) Distortion of Consequences 
D) Diffusion of responsibility 
E) None of the above

Question 4

… refers to the process by which someone reasons about how to deal with an ethical situation

Accepted Answer

A) Unethical Behavior 
B) Moral awareness 
C) Ethical Awareness 
D) Moral Judgment 
E) None of the above

Question 5

When a company executive may unconsciously prefer a job applicant who also holds an MBA from the same school that the executive went to, they are demonstrating?

Accepted Answer

A) Motivated blindness 
B) Moral disengagement 
C) In-group favoritism 
D) Unconscious Biases 
E) None of the above

Question 6

When a company justifies dumping toxic pollutants in a river because the wildlife destroyed by the act may not be seen as worth saving because they are seen as sub-humans, the company is engaging in

Accepted Answer

A) Dehumanization 
B) Moral disengagement 
C) Moral justification 
D) Advantageous comparison 
E) Moral indecision

Question 7

Advantageous comparison occurs when someone compares a worse behavior with another behavior and rationalizes the behavior on that basis.

Accepted Answer

A) Dehumanization occurs 
B) Moral disengagement occurs 
C) Moral justification occurs 
D) Advantageous comparison occurs 
E) None of the above

Question 8

The deactivation processes where, when faced with potential behavior counter to his or her own personal standards, a person may choose to deactivate the standard and still participate in the behavior is known as

Accepted Answer

A) Dehumanization 
B) Moral disengagement 
C) Moral justification 
D) Advantageous comparison 
E) None of the above

Question 9

When a specific member of a board of directors can attribute the decision to close a plant to the group rather than an individual decision, this is called a (n)

Accepted Answer

A) Attribution of blame 
B) Diffusion of responsibility 
C) Distortion of consequences 
D) Displacement of responsibility 
E) None of the above

Question 10

Decision-making that can be unconsciously affected because the decision maker may benefit from the chosen decision is

Accepted Answer

A) Motivated blindness 
B) Unconscious Biases 
C) Conflict of interest 
D) Conscious Biases 
E) None of the above

Exam 2: Building Ethics at the Individual Level