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Moral issues in business

1. In the modern world, most individuals work in organizations. Describe how this can affect people's sense of responsibility and the morality of their conduct.

2. How does the Dalkon Shield example fit Hannah Arendt's point about the "rule by Nobody"? Explain what Jackall means when he writes that middle managers become "potential 'fall guys' when things go wrong."

3. Describe Stanley Milgram's famous experiment. What are its most significant implications?

4. What four knowledge conditions are presupposed by the standard theories of moral decision making? Are they correct to assert that "in an organizational setting, one or more of the four knowledge conditions typically fails at a critical juncture"?

5. What do they mean by the problem of "deeds without doers"? What is their general approach to this problem, and what are the three rival approaches that they put aside?

6. What is the point of the authors' drunk-driving analogy?

7. According to the authors, what five obligations do individuals inside an organization have? Do you agree? Do you think that the authors demand too much of the individual?

8. Suppose an individual fails to fulfill one of these preemp- tive duties. To what extent are we justified in blaming the person for any subsequent organizational misconduct?