Chapter 4

Question 1

Ethics

Answer 1

the set of moral principles or values
that defines right and wrong for a person
or group

Question 2

Ethical behaviour

Answer 2

behaviour that
Conforms to a society’s accepted principles
of right and wrong

Question 3

Production deviance

Answer 3

unethical behaviour that hurts the quality and
quantity of work produced

Question 4

Property deviance

Answer 4

unethical behaviour
aimed at the organization’s property or
products

Question 5

Employee shrinkage

Answer 5

employee theft of Company merchandise

Question 6

Political deviance

Answer 6

using one’s influence
to harm others in the company

Question 7

Workplace violence

Answer 7

any act in which a person is abused, threatened, intimidated, or assaulted in their employment

Question 8

Ethical intensity

Answer 8

the degree of concern
people have about an ethical issue

Question 9

Magnitude of consequences

Answer 9

the total harm or benefit derived from an ethical
decision

Question 10

Social consensus

Answer 10

agreement on whether
behaviour is bad or good
Probability of effect the chance that something will happen and then harm
others

Question 11

Temporal immediacy

Answer 11

the time between
an act and the consequences the act
produces

Question 12

Concentration of effect

Answer 12

the total harm
or benefit that an act produces on the
average person

Question 13

Proximity of effect

Answer 13

the social, psychological, cultural, or physical distance between a decision maker and those
affected by the decision made