BSAD 3300

Question 1

Ethics

Answer 1

is the discipline that deals with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation

Question 2

Morality

Answer 2

a doctrine or system or moral conduct

Question 3

business ethics

Answer 3

is concerned with good and bad or right and wrong behavior and practices that take place within a business context

Question 4

Descriptive Ethics

Answer 4

concerned with describing , chartacterzing and studying the morality of a people, organization,culture, society

Question 5

Normative Ethics

Answer 5

Concerned with supplying and justifying a coherent moral system of thinking and judging

Question 6

conventional approach to business ethics

Answer 6

approach whereby we compare a decision,practice or policy with prevailing norms of acceptability

Question 7

Ethics relativism

Answer 7

where we pick the and choose which sources of norms we wish to use based on what will justify our current actions and maximize our freedom

Question 8

Immoral management

Answer 8

approach that not only is devoid of ethical principles or precepts but also implies a positive and active opposition to what is ethical

Question 9

Moral Management

Answer 9

conforms to the highest standards of ethical behavior or professional standards of conduct

Question 10

Integrity strategy

Answer 10

is characterized by a conception of ethics as the driving force of an organization

Question 11

Amoral Management: Intentional

Answer 11

do not factor ethical considerations into their decisions ,actions, and behaviors, because they believe buiness activity resides outside the sphere to which moral judgments apply

Question 12

Amoral Management: Unintentional

Answer 12

do not think about the business activity in ethical terms , mangers are simply casual or inattentive to the fact that their decisions and actions may have negative or deleterious effects on others

Question 13

Compliance Strategy

Answer 13

is focused on obedience to the law as its driving force

Question 14

Kohlberg’s levels of moral development

Answer 14

3 levels , 6 stages of moral development

Question 15

Moral development

Answer 15

there is a general sequence of three levels through which individuals evolve in learning to think or develop morally : three levels
pre-conventional level focus on self
conventional level focus on others
post-conventional focus on humankind