Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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Ethical Behavior

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Follows accepted behavior or right or wrong

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2
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Workplace Deviance

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Unethical behavior that violates organizational norms about right and wrong.

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Workplace Deviance types

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Production Deviance, property deviance, political deviance, personal aggression.

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4
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Production Deviance

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Hurts the quality and quantity of work produced.

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5
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Property Deviance

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Is unethical behavior aimed at company property or products.

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6
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Employee Shrinkage

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When employees steal company merchandise

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7
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Sweethearting

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When employees discount or don’t ring up merchandise their family or friends bring to the cash register

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8
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Dumpster Diving

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Employee unload trucks stash merchandise in a dumpster then retrieve it after work

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9
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Political Deviance

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Using ones influence to harm others in the company.

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10
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Personal aggression

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Hostile or aggressive behavior toward others.

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11
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Compliance program step 1

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Establish standards and procedures

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12
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Compliance step 2

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Assign upper level managers in charge

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13
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Compliance step 3

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Delegate decision making authority only to ethical employees

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Compliance step 4

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Encourage employees to report violations

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Compliance step 5

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Train employees on standards and procedures

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16
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Compliance step 6

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Enforce standards consistently and fairly

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17
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Compliance step 7

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Improve program after violations

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18
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Ethical intensity

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The degree of concern people have about an ethical concern

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19
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Magnitude of consequence

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Total harm or benefit derived from an ethical decision

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20
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Social consensus

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Agreement on whether behavior is bad or good

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21
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Probability of effect

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The chance that something will happen that results in harm to others

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22
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Temporal immediacy

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The time between an act and the consequences the act produces

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Proximity effect

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The social, psychological, cultural, or a physical distance of a decision maker from those affected by his or her own decisions.

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Concentration of effect

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How much an act affects the average person

25
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Preconventional level of moral development

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People decide based on selfish reason

26
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Stage 1 preconventional

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Punishment and obedience

27
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Stage 2 preconventional

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Instrumental exchange

28
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Conventional level of moral development

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Make decisions that conform to societal expectations

29
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Stage 3 in conventional

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Good boy nice girl

30
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Stage 4 Conventional

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Law and order

31
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Postconventional Level of moral development

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Internalized ethical principles to solve ethical dilemmas

32
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Stage 5 postconditional

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Social contact stage

33
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Stage 6

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Universal principle stage

34
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Principle of long term self interest

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Should never take action that is not in your or your organizations self interest

35
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Principle of religious injunction

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Should never take an action that harms a sense of community or unkind

36
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Principle of government requirement

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The law represents the minimal moral standards of society so you should never take action that violates law

37
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Principal of individual rights

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Should never take action that infringes on others agreed upon rights

38
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Principal of personal virtue

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Should never do anything that is not honest,truthful, open and would not be glad to see reported on newspaper or tv

39
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Principle of distributive justice

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You should never take any actions that harms the least unfortunate among us

40
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Principle of utilitarian benefits

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Should never take action that does not result in greater good of society

41
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Overt integrity test

A

Estimate job applicants honesty by asking them directly what they think or feel about theft or about punishment of unethical behaviors

42
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Personality based integrity test

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Indirectly estimate job applicants honesty by measuring psychological traits such as dependability and conscientious

43
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Whistleblowing

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Reporting others ethics violations

44
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Social responsibility

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Businesses obligation to pursue policies, make decisions,and take actions that benefit society

45
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Shareholder model

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Hold that the only social responsibility that businesses have is to maximize profits

46
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Stakeholder model

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Managements most important responsibility is the firms long term survival not just maximizing profits achieved by satisfying the interest of multiple stakeholders

47
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Stakeholders

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Person or groups legitimately interested in The company

48
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Economic responsibility

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Making a profit by producing a product or service valued by society

49
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Legal responsibility

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Companies social responsibility to obey society’s laws and regulations as it tries to meet its economic responsibilities

50
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Ethical responsibility

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Social responsibility to not violate accepted principles of right and wrong when conducting its business

51
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Discretionary responsibilities

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Pertain to the social roles that businesses play in society beyond their economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities

52
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Social responsiveness

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Company’s strategy to respond to stakeholders economic, legal,ethical, or discretionary expectations concerning social responsibility

53
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Reactive strategy

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Will do less than society expects

54
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Defensive strategy

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Admit responsibility for a problem but would do the least required to meet societal expectations

55
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Accommodative strategy

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Will accept responsibility for a problem and take a progressive approach by doing all that could be expected to solve the problem

56
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Proactive strategy

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Anticipate responsibility for a problem before it occurs do more than expected to address the problem and lead the industry in its approach