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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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What are Rae’s 7 steps for making an ethical decision?

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  1. gather facts
  2. Determine ethical issues
  3. determine virtues/principles that apply
  4. list alternatives
  5. compare alternatives with virtues
  6. Determine consequences
  7. make a decision
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definition of value

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principles of life guidance

-What is important/priority of God, yourself, or workplace

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What are the 7 methods of making an ethical decision

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  1. COE
  2. Rae’s steps
  3. Kohlberg’s pyramid
  4. Worldview
  5. DML
  6. Team Model
  7. Decision Making theories
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What is world view?

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Lens by which you see the world OR set of principles from which all values, beliefs, and decisions flow

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What are the parts to world view

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  • What’s the nature of external reality, what you believe about creation of cosmos
  • What is a human being? What do you believe about humanity?
  • What’s the purpose of life or meaning of human history?
  • Source of truth or why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right and wrong?
  • What happens at death?
  • Prime reality
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Describe COE

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Values, behaviors, succinct and salient, memorable, mnemonic device

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What are the Three R’s in the workplace?

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Role Model, Reasons/Results, Responsibility

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What is prime reality

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What’s bigger than you or what’s really real

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Ethical Decision

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Situation in which standards of right and wrong must be evaluated as to their life application

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What are the four Biases and their antidotes

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Self-Serving bias = accountability
confirmation bias = contradictory evidence
Sunk-cost fallacy = future benefits, use past to help
cognitive fluency = if it sounds good, question it

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Behaviors

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specific ways in which your values are practiced

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Ethical Dilemma

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Conflict between two or more value driven interests

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Ethical Dilemma

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Conflict between two or more value driven interests

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What are the traits to a moral person

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integrity, honesty, trustworthiness

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What are the behaviors of a moral person

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do the right thing, concern for people, openness, personal morality

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Decision making of a moral person includes:

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value-oriented, objective/fair, concern for society, follow ethical decision rules

17
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How many levels and stages are in Kohlberg’s pyramid

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3 levels with two stages in each

18
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What are the three levels of Kohlberg’s pyramid?

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preconventional, conventional, post conventional

19
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Describe the “role model” part of an ethical workplace

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We learn proper behavior from high authority, those should model COE values and behaviors

  • Social learning theory
  • top to peer; peer to peer
20
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Describe the “reasons/results” of an ethical workplace

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Reputation and representation, productivity increases which means income increases which means better results, competitive advantage

21
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Describe the “Responsibility” of an ethical workplace

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starts with hiring (skill fit, personality fit, value fit)
training company ethics
communicate company ethics
rewards/discipline
ethical audit/ inventory
22
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What are the three parts to the toxic triangle

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Destructive Leaders: narcissism, charisma
Susceptible followers: conformers/colluders
conducive environment: no checks and balances, hierarchical differences

23
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What is the Bathsheba syndrome

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Based on King David’s adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah
Could be a dark side for leaders who experienced organizational success
Success is antecedent to ethical failure
Leaders have privileged access and control of multiple resources
Can have a loss of organizational/strategic focus
Hubris that manipulates outcomes for personal reasons vs. organizational good
Therefore, the rules no longer apply to the leader who can act with impunity

24
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Why does our class say we should be moral

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  1. clear conscience/ self satisfaction
  2. stable society
  3. God’s goals
  4. others orientation
25
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What does the preconventional stages involve

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Avoiding punishment and seeking reward

26
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What does the conventional stage involve

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Peers/ authority

27
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What does the post conventional stage involve

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The innate rights of humans guided by their ethical principles

28
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Why do companies need to be ethical per the moldable model

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avoid ethical neutrality

29
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Short answer: know the parts of the Bathsheba syndrome

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Based on King David’s adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah
o Could be a dark side for leaders who experienced organizational success
o Success is antecedent (comes before) to ethical failure
o How do you define success and on what do you base that upon?
o Leaders have privleged access and control of multiple resources
o Can have a loss of organizational/strategic focus
o Hubris (PRIDE) that manipulates outcomes for personal reasons vs organizational good
o Therefore, the rules no longer apply to the leader who can act with impunity (exempt from punishment, “I’m above the rules”)

30
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Short answer: know the elements of the toxic triangle

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destructive leaders: narcissism, charisma
susceptible followers: conformers
conducive environment: no checks and balances, hierarchical differences

31
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Short answer: know the stages and level of Kohlbergs Moral reasoning theory

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Level 1: preconventional (avoid punishment-seek reward)
Level 2: conventional (peers and authority)
Level 3: postconventional (innate rights of humans)

32
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short answer: What are the six dimensions of world view

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What’s the nature of external reality, what you believe about creation of cosmos

  • What is a human being? What do you believe about humanity?
  • What’s the ppurpose of life or meaning of human history?
  • Source of truth or why is it possible to know anything at all? How do we know what is right and wrong?
  • What happens at death?
  • Prime reality
33
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True or false:

Companies should hire people based on skill fit, personality fit, and value fit

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true

34
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What is workplace morality

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the morals and values and behaviors of how one should act in the workplace

35
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Definition of success

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Reaching one’s realistic short term or long term goals

36
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What is your COE

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P-punctual
T- trustworthy

A- Attentive
C-communication
T- therapeutic
S- straight forward

37
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Short answer: Know the three R’s and what they entail

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  1. Role Model (we learn proper behavior from higher authority that should be modeling the COE values and behaviors)
  2. Reasons and results (productivity increases, money increases, competitive advantage, reputation/representation, avoid ethical neutrality
  3. responsibility/ accountability (starts with hiring and all the fits, training COE, communicate company ethics, rewards discipline, and ethical audit/inventory

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