Second Test Flashcards
Ethics
The discipline with good and bad and with moral duty obligation.
Ethics is concerned with the study of ________ duty.
Moral
Ethics is among other things a set of rules and standards that govern _________.
Individuals conduct
Ethics is knowing the difference between, __________.
What you have the right to do and what is right to do.
Every aspect of human behavior is influenced by __________ , but values aren’t easily defined. Their definitions and interpretations vary from___________.
Personal values/ period to period, location to location and situation to situation.
Misconceptions about Ethics.
-Ethics is not something that good people need to worry too much about.
-Idealism is incompatible with realism.
-The principal focus of ethics is moral problems, as opposed to the formation of habits of good character.
-People concerned about ethics dismiss every pleasure and are just “holier-than-thou.”
Texas legislature
Public Interest
- Public office is a trust to be used only to advance public interests, not personal gain.
Public Interest
- Public office is a trust to be used only to advance public interests, not personal gain.
Objective Judgment
Decisions made on merits, free of partiality or prejudice, and unimpeded by personal bias.
Accountability -
Government is to be conducted openly, efficiently, suitably, and honorably so that the public can make informed judgments and hold public officials accountable.
Democracy -
Honor and respect democratic principles, and observe the letter and spirit of laws.
Respectability -
Safeguard public confidence in integrity of government by avoiding appearances of impropriety and conduct unbefitting a public official.
Sexual harassment
is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior that is not welcome, not asked for, and not returned./or is unwelcome sexual or gender based behavior
“Quid Pro Quo” -
Occurs when an employee is required to consent to unwelcome sexual advances to obtain employment opportunities or benefits, or when an employee is denied opportunities or benefits because (s) he refused to consent to such conduct.
Hostile Work Environment -
Occurs when an employer or other employee subjects an employee to sexual innuendos, remarks, and/or physical acts so offensive that they “alter the conditions of the employee’s employment and create an abusive work environment”
Attitude. -
is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that influences him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that person or thing.
Race -
generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry and physical. characteristics. Since no “pure” races remain, some prefer to avoid reference to race and instead discuss group differences under the heading of ethnicity.
Ethnicity -
refers to shared culture and background. Members of an ethnic group usually have common ancestry and generally share language, religion, and other cultural patterns.
Ethnocentrism
Center of the universe
Prejudice -
is an adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of or examination of the facts; i.e., negative bias.
Culture -
a way of thinking and acting based on tradition. Learned behavior passed down from one generation to another.
Discrimination -
acting on the basis of prejudice.
“To make a difference in treatment
or favor on a basis other than individual merit” (14th Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution).
Ethnocentrism-
provides a source of egotistic satisfaction through a favorable comparison of oneself to others.
Stereotyping and categorical treatment-
afford a convenient grouping of which one is ignorant. Lumping such people together under a popular stereotyped description saves time and thought.
Scapegoating:
provides a convenient group or person to blame when things go wrong in one’s personal life or in the community.
Projection-
provides an outlet for projecting one’s tensions and frustrations onto other, people.
Authoritarian personality-
symbolizes one’s affiliation with a more dominant group:
Societal strain-
as a coping mechanism for fear and insecurity, provides justification for various types of discrimination, which are thought to be of advantage to the dominant group.
Feeling of superiority-
Self-assured feeling on the part of certain individuals that they are superior or better than others, which is frequently expressed through inappropriate jokes or disparaging remarks directed to those regarded as inferior (for example, suggesting that they are lazy, too aggressive, stupid, tricky, deceitful, clannish, pushy,