Social Responsibility and Ethics

Question 1

Kant’s two principles to guide actions: A person’s action is ethical only if that person is willing for that same action to be taken by everyone who is in a similar situation, and a person should never treat another human being simply as a means but always as an end.

Answer 1

Categorical imperatives

Question 2

A code that specifies how an organization expects its employees to behave while on the job.

Answer 2

Code of ethics

Question 3

The consensually accepted standards of behavior for an occupation, trade, or profession.

Answer 3

Ethics

Question 4

An ethics behavior guideline that proposes that human beings have certain fundamental rights that should be respected in all decisions.

Answer 4

Individual rights approach

Question 5

An ethical approach that proposes that decision makers be equitable, fair, and impartial in the distribution of costs and benefits.

Answer 5

Justice approach

Question 6

A formal code that permits or forbids certain behaviors.

Answer 6

Law

Question 7

Kohlberg proposed three levels of what?: preconventional, conventional, and principled.

Answer 7

Levels of moral development

Question 8

A theory that proposes that morality is relative to some personal, social, or cultural standard, and that there is no method for deciding whether one decision is better than another.

Answer 8

Moral relativism

Question 9

Precepts of personal behavior that are based on religious or philosophical grounds.

Answer 9

Morality

Question 10

The ethical and discretionary responsibilities a corporation owes its stakeholders.

Answer 10

Social responsibility

Question 11

The identification and evaluation of corporate stakeholders.

Answer 11

Stakeholder analysis

Question 12

A theory that proposes that actions and plans should be judged by their consequences.

Answer 12

Utilitarian approach

Question 13

An individual who reports to authorities incidents of questionable organizational practices.

Answer 13

Whistle-blower