Reference no: EM133367018

Questions

1. If a particular action is right or wrong for one person, it is also right or wrong for all similarly situated people.

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2. Moral judgments and consequent moral actions should supersede personal gain, convenience and legal requirements.

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3. Trevino & Nelson (2017) presents seven steps for sound ethical decision making in business and the second step is to identify the affected parties.

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4. The first step of the ethical decision making process is to gather the facts of the case which includes finding out how the situation occurred and the background to the problem.

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5. When we act according to our conscience and judge ourselves based on our conscience, it is called the third person rule.

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6. Being sensitive to the needs and concerns of third parties is not crucial to ethical decision-making in that, each person is responsible for him/herself.

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7. John has accepted tickets to the big game on Saturday but he knows his supervisor would not be happy if it was discovered. This scenario depicts the importance of symbolic consequences in leadership.

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8. Descriptive transcultural relativism describes the differences between cultures and differences in the way particular languages define moral terms.

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9. Terms such as "right" and "wrong" are universally defined in all cultures or languages similarly.

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10. An action may be right for one person or society, and the same action, taken in the same way, may be wrong for another person or society-and both are equally correct.

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11. Moral absolutism is an alternative to ethical relativism.

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12. Emmanuel Kant's categorical imperative is a principal doctrine of the utilitarian approach.

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13. The categorical imperative is considered to be more universal in its application than the hypothetical imperative.

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14. Honor killings in Pakistan are tantamount to murder.

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15. Step eight (8) of the ethical decision making process according to Trevino and Nelson (2017) is that we check our spleen.

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16. It is possible for there to be plurality of ethical pratice but not plurality of ethical principles.

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17. Jordan orders several printers for his firm. He expresses to the seller that he wishes he could have a printer of the same type for his home. The seller offers him a 50% discount on one for his home (on the basis that he has placed such a large order for his firm). John doesn't feel that he should accept the offer. Your position is that nothing is wrong and John should accept the offer.

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18. Some morally defensible positions may be seen as illegal.

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19. Religion can provide a universal moral code for business.

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20. The teleological approach argues on the basis of ends. For example, a particular action is right or wrong based upon the consequences of the action.

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