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"Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"

"One should not adopt principle of action unless thye can, without inconsistency, be adopted by everyone else"

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The Categorical Imperative.

Using this guideline: a decision maker faced with a moral choice will act in a way that he or she believes is right and just for any other person in a similar situation.

Front 2

"Individual should act to further their self-interest so long a they do not violate the law"

Decision maker are allowed, under this principal, to bluff (lie) and to take advantage of all legal opportunities and widespread practices or customs.

Back 2

The Conventionalist Ethic

Front 3

"If the full glare of examination by associates, friends, even family were to focus on your decision, would you remain comfortable with it?"

" When face with an ethical dilemma, a manager asks how it would feel to see the thinking and details of the decision disclosed to a wide audience. Sometimes newspaper readers or national television viewer are substituted for acquaintances as the disclosure audience."

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The disclosure Rule

Front 4

The solution to moral problem lies simply in what you feel or understand to be right in a given situation

Back 4

The intuition Ethic

Front 5

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

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The Golden Rules

Front 6

When confronted with a decision involving a potentially unethical course of action, the decision maker should ask whether some overall good, such as survival of a country or business -justified any moral transgression.

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The Mean-Ends Ethic

Front 7

When faced with a moral decision, individual using this ethic seize what advantage they are strong enough to take without respect to ordinary social conventional and laws

Back 7

The Might-Equal-Right Ethic

Front 8

When face with this, an individual should ask weather actions taking are consistent with organizational goal and do what is good for the organization.

Back 8

The organization ethic

Front 9

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties

"Thus, a person has the right to freedom of action unless such action deprives another person of a proper freedom"

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The principle of equal freedom

Front 10

In situation from which both good and evil consequences are bound to result, a manager will act ethically if. 1. the good effect outweigh the evil 2. The manager's intention is to achieve the good effects and 3. examination reveal that no better alternative is available.

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The proportionality Ethic.

Front 11

It holds that you should do only that which can be explained before a committee of your peers

Back 11

The professional Ethic

Front 12

The decision makers pray, meditate, or otherwise commune with a superior force or being.

Back 12

The Revelation Ethic

Front 13

A decision maker evaluates intended action base on whether they deprive any party affect the by decision of a right that must be respected."

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The right Ethic

Front 14

Greatest good for greatest number

Back 14

The utilitarian principle.