Chapter 4 Flashcards

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Caux Principles for Business

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Kyosei Human dignity

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Company mechanisms designed to instill in people a personal responsibility for ethical behavior

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Integrity-based ethics programs

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3
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A philosophy that bases ethical behaviors on the opinions and behaviors of relevant other people

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Relativism

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3
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Ethical decisions

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Moral awareness Moral Judgement Moral character

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4
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The moral principles and standards that guide the behavior of the individual or group

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Ethics

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4
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Pyramid of global corporate social responsability

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Bottom: Economic responsibility Legal responsibility Ethical responsibility Top: Philanthropic responsibility

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5
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Ethical principles established by international executives base in Caux Switzerland, in cooperation with business leaders from Japan, Europe and the United States

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Caux principles for business

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Obligation towards society assumed by business

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Corporate social responsibility

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6
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Theory of corporate social responsibility that holds that managers are agents of shareholders whose primary objective is to maximize profit

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Shareholder model

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7
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An ethical system stating that the greatest good for the greatest number should be the overriding concern of decision makers

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Utilitarism

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Economic growth and development that meet present needs without harming the needs of future generations

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Sustainable growth

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The moral principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business

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Business ethics

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10
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Additional behaviors and activities that society finds desirable and that the values of the business support

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Philanthropic responsibilities

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11
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Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

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Pre-conventional Stage Conventional Stage Principled Stage

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12
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The ethical system stating that all people should uphold certain values that society needs to function

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Universalism

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13
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A perspective that what is moral comes from one a mature person with “good” moral character would deem right

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Virtue ethics

13
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An education with 5 higher goals that balance self interests with responsibility to others

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Transcendent education

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Theory of corporate social responsibility that suggests that managers are obliged to look beyond profitability to help their organizations succeed by interacting with groups that have a stake in the organization

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Stakeholder model

14
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Classification of people based on their level of moral judgment

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Kohlberg’s model of cognitive moral development

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Principles, rules, and values people use in deciding what is right or wrong

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Moral philosophy

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An ethical principle holding that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action

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Egoism

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Company mechanisms typically designed by corporate counsel to prevent, detect, and punish illegal violations

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Compliance-based ethics programs

20
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One who is both a moral person and a moral manager influencing others to behave ethically

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Ethical leader

21
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Kyosei

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living and working together for the common good, allowing cooperation and mutual prosperity to coexist with healthy and fair competition.

23
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An act that established strict accounting and reporting rules to make senior managers more accountable and to improve and maintain investor confidence

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Sarbanes-Oxley act

25
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To produce goods and services that society wants at a price that perpetuates the business and satisfies its obligations to investors

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Economic responsibilities

26
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Meeting other social expectations, not written as law

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Ethical responsibilities

27
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Its goal is the creation of sustainable economic development and improvement of quality of life worldwide for all organizational stakeholders

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Eco-centric management

28
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Transcendent Education

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Empathy Generativity Mutuality Civil Aspiration Intolerance of ineffective humanity

29
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To obey local, state, federal, and relevant international laws

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Legal responsibilities

31
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In an organization, the processes by which decisions are evaluated and made on the basis of right and wrong

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Ethical climate

32
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A process of analyzing all inputs and outputs, through the entire “cradle-to-grave” life of a product, to determine total environmental impact. LCA considers the extraction of raw materials, product packaging, transportation, and disposal.

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Life cycle analysis (LCA)

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A situation, problem, or opportunity in which an individual must choose among several actions that must be evaluated as morally right or wrong

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Ethical issue