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Question 1

A) Fully describe the details of the situation found within The Parable of the Sadhu and the ethical dilemma within the case.

B) Who were the primary stakeholders? Who are the secondary stakeholders?

C) Who, if anyone, were responsible for taking care of the Sadhu? Who was responsible for making the decision? How could assumptions about the Sadhu, and decision maker condition have played a role in the decision?

D) In what ways might have the Sadhu's behavior, age, race, or religion have played a role in the decision of those who could have helped him?

E) What should Bowen McCoy and the rest of his group have done?

F) How could you improve the quality of ethic decision making under stressful conditions, thus improving the likelihood of doing the right thing?

G) How does this case relate to business ethics?

Question 2

Please answer all parts of the question:

a) Describe the Dark Triad. Speak about each of the psychological traits, providing specific details concerning them.
b) What are some other individual differences that generally impact ethicalness. And how do they do so?

c) Discuss the different levels of cognitive moral development. Describe the different levels

d) If you were a manager, how would you deal with these potential influencing traits and levels of moral development in order to maintain an ethical organizational environment?

e) Discuss how it might affect such management activities as recruitment and selection, communication, monitoring employees, incentives, etc,

Question 3

Please answer all parts of the question:

a) Why is ethical leadership so important to the overall ethics of an organization in terms of the "ethical system" (the model presenting at the beginning of each module)?

b) What are core values, why are they important to ethical leadership, and how can a leader use them to reinforce ethical behavior?

c) What does it mean to be an "authentic leader" and how does being authentic relate to trust and respect?

d) What is servant leadership and how is it different from other forms of leadership?

e) Give examples of the behavior of an authentic, servant leader wha lives their core values?

Question 4

Please answer all parts of the question:

a) What is the "framework for understanding ethical decision making'?

b) What are the four main external and internal factors that lead to specific evaluations of situations and intentions for ethical or unethical behavior? Specifically define each one and describe how each one influences a person's cognitive process in reaching a decision.

c) What are some of the things that can keep a person from fully manifesting their intentions as behaviors?

d) How can you, as a manager, Use this framework to help you be a better manager and to maintain a more ethical work environment?

Question 5

Please answer all parts of the question:

a) What is "moral philosophy"? Define the three branches?

b) Why is it important to understand that business can be ethical? How does the power to decide when and how you interact within a free market provide the capacity for moral choice?

c) Define "moral goods," "natural goods" and their relationship with ethics and "economic value orientation." How can the ability to conduct free market transactions produce both moral and natural value?

d) Define teleology, deontology, and virtue ethics. Which ones are "instrumental philosophies" and what does that mean?

e) Which types of moral philosophy tend to drive your thinking most often? Give a few examples.