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| Consequentialist Approach |
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- Focused on the consequences to society
- Be sure to: think broadly (consider stakeholders), and choose the best decision = yields greatest net benefits to society
- Adv.: practical and already underlies most business thinking
- DisAdv.: difficult to evaluate all consequences, difficult to calulate harms and benefits, and rigths of minorities can be sacrificed
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- application of broad abstract universal principles (honesty, promise-keeping, fairness, rights, justice, etc.)
- focus on doing what is consistent with one's principles
- Adv.: easy to apply and rights approach (found in pulic policy debates)
- DisAdv.: determing what rules or principles to follow, deciding which takes precedence, reconciling deo. and con. approches when they conflict
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- Character is defined by one's community
- Good shortcuts: choose a community that holds you to the highest standards, use harshest moral critic, disclosure rule, and trust your gut.
- Adv.: Can rely upon community standards and "Gut check"
- DisAdv. choice of community, limited aggrement about community standards and community can be wrong
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- Script- a cognitive framework that guides thought in routine situations
- Makes behavior automatic
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- Moral Justification (framing act as in service of greater good)
- Advantageous Comparison (using contrast to make an act seem less harmful)
- Euphemistic Language (rename an act using benign language)
- Displacement of Responsibility (blaming ones's actions to authority figures)
- Diffusion of Responsibility (blaming across members or a group or system)
- Distorting Consequences (minimizing or ignoring seriousness of the effects)
- Dehumanization (framing victim as unworthy of common human treatment)
- Attribution of Blame (blaming the victim)
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- a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion
- Fact Gathering (look for confirming or supporting info.)
- Thinking about consequences (tendency to consider too few consequences and under estimate risks)
- Thinking about integrity (illusion of morality)
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- The shared assumptions, values, and beliefs in an organization.
- Created through combinations of formal and informal systems.
- Alignment can either be strong or weak.
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- Leadership
- Structure
- Rules/Policies
- Reward System
- Selection System
- Orientation/Training
- Decision Processes
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- Norms
- Heroes
- Rituals
- Myths/Stories
- Language
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- Socialized to be obedient- ensures harmony and a stable environment
- Situational Etiquette- not wanting to disrupt the status quo
- Disobedience only comes when absolutely necessary
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| Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility |
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- Top of the Pyramid: Philanthropic Responsibility (be a good corporate citizen)
- Ethical Responsibility (be ethical)
- Legal Responsibility (obey the law)
- Bottom of the Pyramid: Economic Responsibility (be profitable)
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| Implicit-Association Test |
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- designed to detect the strength of a person's automatic association between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
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- the process of identifying the ethical issues involved, the parties who have a stake in the action, what is at stake, and what the the action options are.
- poor moral awareness can either result in a failure to perceive the problem as being an ethical problem at all, or can present the agent with a distorted or insufficient picture of the problem to be resolved.
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| Bad Apple/Bad Barrel Theory |
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- "Bad Apple"- the notion that blame for unethical behavior rests with a few unsavory individuals (difficult for organizations to influence ethical decision making)
- "Bad Barrel"- views that people are not inherently ethical or unethical, but are influenced by the corporate culture surrounding them (more organizational control)
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- a type of fallacy that involves a situation in which limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. (ex. NYC noise pollution)
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- Internal: believes that everything that happens to themselves is due to their own actions.
- External: believes that everything happening to to them is caused by outside sources out of their control. (ex. luck, fate, or powerful being)
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- Steve Butler= Matt Damon
- Global Crosspower Solutions
- Sue = Frances Mcdormand
- Dustin Noble = John Krasinski
- Set in Rural Pennsylvania
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