Business Ethics Test 2

Front 1

Ethical issue intensity

Back 1

importance of an event or decision in the eyes of the individual, work group, or organization.

Front 2

Ethical awareness

Back 2

Ability to percieve whether a situation or decision has an ethical dimension

Front 3

role of gender

Back 3

in many aspects there is no difference between men and women. But, when a diffference is found, usually women are more ethical

Front 4

role of education

Back 4

the better educated, the better ethical decisions

Front 5

role of age

Back 5

usually the older a person is, the more they will try to make the right decision rather than be influenced

Front 6

Corporate culture

Back 6

Set of values, norms, and artifacts including ways of solving problems that members of an organization share

Front 7

Immediate job context

Back 7

where they work, who they work with, and the nature of the work

Front 8

Oppurtunity

Back 8

the conditions in an organization that limits or permits ethical/unethical behavior

Front 9

Significant others

Back 9

Those who have influence in a work group, including peers, managers, coworkers, and subordinates

Front 10

Obedience to authority

Back 10

another aspect of the influence significant others can exercise. help explain why many employees resolve business ethiccal issues by simply listening to the superior

Front 11

normative approach

Back 11

What ought to occur in ethical decision making

Front 12

INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL

Back 12

They control the events in their lives with their own effort and skill "masters of their own destiny"

Front 13

External locus of control

Back 13

They go with the flow because they have no choice on what will happen with them

Front 14

cognitive dissonance

Back 14

the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change

Front 15

Difference between social, business, and personal ethics

Back 15

Social: What is ethically correct in the culture

Business: What is ethically correct in a business

Personal: What one personally believes to beathically correct

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descriptive

Back 16

What do people think is right

Front 17

teleology

Back 17

An act is considered morally correct if it produces a desired result

Front 18

Deontology

Back 18

Protects the rights of humans

Front 19

utilitarianism

Back 19

Do the best for the most people

Front 20

Egoism

Back 20

Right behavior in terms of its consequences for the individual(theyre all dickheads)

Front 21

pluarlism

Back 21

Takes the opposite position that no one thing is intrinsically good

Front 22

relativism

Back 22

ethical behavior is derived by experiences of the indivduals

Front 23

Meta ethical relativism

Back 23

people naturally see situations from their own perspectives and there is no way to solve them with different value systems

Front 24

Distributive justice

Back 24

Evaluation of the outcomes or results of a business relationship

Front 25

Procedural justice

Back 25

The process and activities that produce a particular outcome

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Interactional Justice

Back 26

Relationships between organizational members including the way employees and management treat one another

Front 27

1st stage,

Back 27

punishment and obiedence

A person of this stage responds to "good"and"bad" in terms of physical powers

Front 28

2nd stage

Back 28

individual instrumental purpose and exchange

Defines right as what serves his or her own needs

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3rd stage

Back 29

mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships and conformity

Emphasizes the interests of others rather than themselves

Front 30

4th stage

Back 30

Social system and conscience maintenence

considers what is right by their duty to society

Front 31

5th stage

Back 31

prior rights, social contract or utility

Concerned with upholding basic rights, values, and legal contracts

Front 32

6th stage

Back 32

universal ethical principles

Goes by what people think is right universally

Front 33

White collar crime

Back 33

Does more damage in monetary and emotional loss in one year than violent crimes do in several years

they are usually educated and have much trust

receives as high sentences as murder sometimes

Front 34

Golden rule

Back 34

Due unto others as you would like others to do to you

Front 35

Reward power

Back 35

Persons ability to influence the behavior of others by offereing them something desirable

Front 36

Coercive power

Back 36

Penalizes for doing wrong

Front 37

Legitimate power

Back 37

The person in the position has a right to be there and certain others have to accept it

Front 38

Expert power

Back 38

Derived from a persons knowledge

Front 39

Referent power

Back 39

WHen someones goals is similar to someone elses

Front 40

Whistleblowing

Back 40

Someone tells someone else outside the organization what is going on

Good: The DOL protects you

Bad: people in the organization will not like it

Front 41

Centralized

Back 41

Authority is in the top level managers and works its way down

Front 42

Decentralized

Back 42

Authority is delegated as far down the chain as possible. Usually little formal rules

Front 43

Motivation

Back 43

Force within the individual that focuses his or her behavior toward achieving a goal

Front 44

Relatedness needs

Back 44

Satisfied by social and interpersonalrelationships

Front 45

Growth needs

Back 45

Satisfied by creative or productive activities

Front 46

personal needs

Back 46

Satisfied by the individual needs

Front 47

Apathetic culture

Back 47

SHows minimal concern for people or performance

Front 48

Caring culture

Back 48

Exhibits high concerns for people but minimal concern for performance issues

Front 49

Exacting culture

Back 49

Shows little concern for people but high concern for performance

Front 50

Integrative culture

Back 50

High concern for people and performance

Front 51

Compliance culture

Back 51

Use a legalistic approach, using laws and regualtions

Front 52

Value based culture

Back 52

Based on the values and how people should be treated

Front 53

Code of conduct

Back 53

Formal statments that descibe what an organization expects of its employees

Front 54

Code of ethics

Back 54

General statments and inspirational served as principles as the basis of rulesq

Front 55

Compliance orientatin

Back 55

Requires employees identify and commit to specific conduct

Front 56

Values orientation

Back 56

Strives to develop shared values

Front 57

Ethics officers

Back 57

Assesses needs and risks organization must address

Develops ethics code

Training programs

Establishes confidential services

Front 58

Prescriptive

Back 58

oth the standard of good (goal) needs to be defined, and the issue of choice/ freewill must be addressed