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Chapter 02 Ethical Decision

The document discusses the steps in an ethical decision-making process: 1) Determine the facts of the situation and consider alternatives. Identify stakeholders impacted. 2) Consider how decisions impact stakeholders by weighing alternatives. 3) Make a decision after identifying ethical issues and predicting consequences for stakeholders. Good ethical decision-making involves considering different perspectives through "moral imagination." Barriers like satisficing and conforming socially can discourage ethical behavior.

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Chapter 02 Ethical Decision

The document discusses the steps in an ethical decision-making process: 1) Determine the facts of the situation and consider alternatives. Identify stakeholders impacted. 2) Consider how decisions impact stakeholders by weighing alternatives. 3) Make a decision after identifying ethical issues and predicting consequences for stakeholders. Good ethical decision-making involves considering different perspectives through "moral imagination." Barriers like satisficing and conforming socially can discourage ethical behavior.

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Chapter 02 Ethical Decision-Making: Personal and Professional Contexts

2.1: A Decision-Making Process for Ethics


1. The first step in making decisions that are ethically responsible is to:
A. Determines the facts.
B. Considers the available alternatives.
C. Identifies and consider the impact of the decision on stakeholders.
2. An ethical judgment made in light of a diligent determination of the facts is a more ________
judgment than one made without regard for the facts.
A. Legal
B. Reasonable
C. Obsessional
D. Irrational
3. Which of the following is the second step of the ethical decision-making process?
A. Considering available alternatives
B. Making the decision
C. Identifying the ethical issues involved
D. Considering the impact of the on stakeholders
4. In the ethical decision-making process, identify the steps that might arise in reverse order,
depending on the circumstances.
A. Identifying the ethical issues; considering the impact of the decision on stakeholders
B. Determining the facts; identifying the impact of the decision on stakeholders
C. Identifying the impact of the decision on stakeholders; considering the available alternatives
D. Determining the facts; identifying the ethical issues
5. At the third step of ethical decision making we are asked to: ________.
A. Identify and to consider all the people affected by a decision
B. Consider the available alternatives
C. Compare and weigh the alternatives
D. Make a decision
6. “_____” include all of the groups and/or individuals affected by a decision, policy, or
operation of a firm or individual.
A. Stakeholders
B. Shareholders
C. Employees
D. Owners
7. In an ethical decision-making process, moral imagination helps individuals make ethically
responsible decisions. Identify the step in which moral imagination is critical.
A. Determining the facts
B. Considering the available alternatives
C. Identifying the ethical issues
D. Identifying and consider impact of decision on stakeholders
8. _____ is one element that distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions
from good people who do not.
A. Normative myopia
B. In attentional blindness
C. Change blindness
D. Moral imagination
9. In the ethical decision-making process, identify the step that involves predicting the likely,
foreseeable, and the possible consequences to all the relevant stakeholders.
A. Comparing and weighing the alternatives
B. Making the decision
C. Identifying the ethical issues
D. Monitoring and learning from the outcomes
10. Which step in the ethical decision-making process occurs once you have considered how a
decision affects stakeholders by comparing and weighing the alternatives?
A. Identifying the ethical issues involved
B. Monitoring and learning from outcomes
C. Making a decision
D. Identifying key stakeholders
11. Decisions in business are not typically simple “yes” or “no” decisions; in most cases, making
a decision means ________.
A. Formulating a plan and carrying it out
B. Imagining a plan and wishing to make it true
C. Walking miles in someone’s shoes
D. Practical reasoning
2.2: Why Do Good People Engage in Bad Acts? (Stumbling Blocks)
12. Identify the barrier where individuals or groups select the option that meets the minimum
decision criteria, the one that people can live with, even if it might not be the best.
A. Considering simplified decision rules
B. Satisficing
C. Optimizing
D. Selecting easy decisions
13. The easiest thing to do would be to remain passive and simply conform to social and cultural
expectations. Otherwise known as:
A. Walk a mile in their shoes
B. Satisficing
C. Go with the flow
D. Moral Imagination

True/False Questions
1. In the ethical decision-making process, the issue identification step always follows the fact
gathering step.
2. Stakeholders include only those groups and/or individuals within an organization affected by
an internal decision, policy or operation of a firm or individual.
3. The most helpful way to compare and weigh the alternatives is to try to place oneself in the
other person’s position.
4. Within business, an organization’s context sometimes makes it difficult for even the best-
intentioned person to act ethically.
5. Responsibility for the circumstances that can encourage ethical behavior and can discourage
unethical behavior falls predominantly to the business management and executive team.
6. “Business” or “economic” decisions and ethical decisions are not mutually exclusive.
7. Understanding a situation from another’s point of view, making an effort to “walk a mile in
their shoes,” contributes significantly to responsible ethical decision making.
8. We often select the alternative that satisfies maximum decision criteria, otherwise known as
satisficing.

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