BusEth Flashcards

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is company in USA that controls energy sources which collapsed. According to their financial recording that it hid billions of dollar in debt. and it also fell into the trap of primary focus of business, providing services, becoming a mere cash accumulator. Enron just wants to be a largest company, but since he forgetten its obligations to his shareholders his company went downhill.

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Enron Corporation

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2
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American ethical codes were first called

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Creeds or credos

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3
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Creeds are

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Legalistic

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4
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Codes articulate ethical parameters of the organization;

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what is acceptable and what is not

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5
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describe them as policy documents defining responsibilities of employees

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Kaptein and Wempe

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notes that codes contains guidelines describing behaviors

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Nijhof

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7
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ethical codes differ from mission statements

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Steven

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8
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Four types of organizational culture in Sauser’s

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defiance, compliance, neglect, and character

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9
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Character is?

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ideal

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10
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Sims said truly committed to ethical conduct
That they do not forget __________________________ do matter

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TRUST, INTEGRITY, AND FAIRNESS

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11
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ethical managers should know what is right, value what is right, and do what is right.

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Carl

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12
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may/maynot know, and no value or to do

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defiance

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13
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conscious effort to know, value, and to do.

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neglect

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14
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know and do, but not value

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compliance

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15
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know, value, do.

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character

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16
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has profound influence of all aspects of human behavior, often difficult to determine how and in what ways its impact is manifested

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Culture

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17
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changes politically, economically, socially, and technologically

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Culture

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18
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is a human reality and resides in human communities from an anthro perspective

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Culture

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19
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taught us that the human person is an open system

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Anthropology

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20
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spoke of the essential transcendences of human beings

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Aristotle

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21
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impassioned defense of primacy of intellectual activity and the importance of devoting oneself to a life of study and culture

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Protrepticus

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22
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is a being of opportunities, decisions, family, social being of being capable in communications

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Human person

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23
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Human language is open and living, but language is said to be

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continuatio naturae (continuation of language)

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24
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Culture comes from

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colore (agriculture origin)

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25
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father of concept of corporate culture (functions of executives)

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Bernard

25
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most authors agree that it refers to assumptions, beliefs, goals, knowledge, and value that shares by organizational members

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Corporate culture

26
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considers culture as a components of an integrated social system which also includes a social structure to maintain orderly life

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Functionalist view of organizations

27
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Functions of culture

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Social Glue
Regulator of Social Relations
Compass
Control Mechanism
Tool
Building Block
Need Satisfier

28
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Culture - contributes to the avoidance of fragmentation, conflict and tension - sometimes called as

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Integration approach

29
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is reductionist based on exploit, profit maximization and capital accumulation

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Modern science

30
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root of the growning ecological crisis

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Reductionist science

30
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the human person is capable of having transcendent motives. Perez Lopez

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Theory of Human Action in Org

31
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suggest an org culture grounded in moral character is the ideal corporate culture

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Sauser and Sim

32
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10 STYLISTIC MARKERS

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They are at ease interacting with diverese internal and external
They are obsessed with fairness
Responsibility is individual rather collective
They see their activites in terms of purpose
There exists a clear vision
Vision is owned and embodied by top management
Reward system is aligned
Policies and practices of the organization
Every leadership decision has ethical value
Everyone is expected to work in stakeholder perspective.

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CODES OF ETHICS:

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Adopt a code of ethics
Provide ethics training
hire and promote
Correct unethical behavior
Proactive strat
Conduct a social audit
protect whistle-blowers
Guardians of integrity
Assure commitment
Communicate the standards
designate an ethics
establish for reporting violations
Assure diligence
Lead by example

34
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unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

35
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never learned to obey cannot be a good commander

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Aristotle

36
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life is simple, we make it complicated

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Confucius

37
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principles of conduct governing an individual or group, or the study of morality

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Ethics

38
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Personal ethics

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life

39
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accounting ethics

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accountant

40
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love of wisdom, study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, existence

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philosophy

41
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reality and existence

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metaphysics

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existence

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ontology

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universe

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cosmology

44
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knowledge

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epistemology

45
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key dimension of epistemology

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logic

46
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gen to specific

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deductive logic

47
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specific to gen

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inductive logic

48
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values

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axiology

49
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human conduct and moral values

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ethics

50
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beauty of fine arts

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aesthetic

51
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examines good or bad

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ethics

52
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world of mind and ideas, primary

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idealism

53
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antithesis of idealism

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realism

54
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revolt against the mathematical

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existentialism

55
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known as theistic realism or talks about God

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neo-theism

56
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to clarify and define philosophies, begin in WW1

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analytic philosophy

57
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here are logical and empirical types of scientific expression

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logical positivism

58
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experience of things that work

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Pragmatism