Best Self Flashcards
Recognize ethical issues when you run across them
Moral Awareness
have the ability to reach a defensible resolution of the question as to what is the right thing to do in that setting
Moral Decision Making
desire to do the right thing
Moral Intent
be able to act on that intent
Moral Action
Occurs when we are so focused on other aspects of a decision that its ethical dimensions fade from view
Ethical Fading
Is a distortion of a moral vision that keeps ethical issues from coming clearly into focus
Moral myopia
causes us to see things in ways that support our best interests and our pre-existing points of view. The self-serving bias can affect our judgments and decisions in a number of ways.
Self-serving bias
someone who tends to emphasize duty and absolute rules, to be followed whether they lead to good or ill consequences in a particular case
Dentologist
Someone whose goal is to increase happiness, or ‘utility’. Consider the consequences.
Consequentialist
Invented explanations that hide or deny our true motivations, causes, or actions
Rationalization
Where we are consciously doing something unethical, but choosing to do it anyway because we can shift the responsibility to someone else, which substantially mitigates our feelings of guilt.
Denial of responsibility
Where we consciously choose to do something wrong because the supposedly slight harm involved makes it not seem so bad.
Denial of injury
Where we consciously choose to do something wrong, but by weighing our bad actions against those of people who do even worse things, we can make ourselves appear almost heroic… at least in our own eyes. I know I am wrong but my competitors do way worse, then you should realize you are about to make a big mistake.
Social Weighing
Where we chooose to do something wrong because some fault we attribute to the victim makes it seem to us that the victim deserves the harm.
Denial of Victim
Where we consciously choose to do something wrong, but justify doing it just this one time by elevating loyalty to our firm or our family to preeminent position. By saying i know this is wrong but my company will lose money if don’t do it, then it is time to rethink.
Appeal to higher loyalties.
