BA 300 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Hypernorm - ✔✔1. Respect Human Dignity (recognizing value of human beings ex.
Providing a safe workplace)
2. Respect Human Rights ( avoid relationships that violate human beings right to health,
education, safety..ect)
3. Good citizenship (to the supprt the institutions on which the community depends)
✔✔Virtue Ethics - ✔✔Decision Rule: Focus is on character and motivations; rules are
derived from the relevant community (often a profession). is decision maker ethical?
Advantages: doesnt require much analysis
Disadvantages: not flexible
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
-THE DISCLOSURE RULE
-OPINION OF ROLE MODEL OR GREATEST CRITIC
✔✔Objectivism - ✔✔Decision Rule: be rational and all you can be.
Advantages: reinforces personal responsibility
Disadvantages: individualistic and judgmental, does not protect the weak
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
-DECISION MAKER'S INTEREST COMES FIRST
-EMPHASIS ON RATIONAL DECISIONS
EX: MOTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
-anything about happiness
✔✔Consequentialist - ✔✔consider consequences
✔✔Deontological - ✔✔focuses on duties, obligations, principles
✔✔Jack and suzy welch believe if an employee is fired because of ethical violations, it
should be: - ✔✔made widely known to scare other employees
✔✔Nozick's theory of rights: Night watchman - ✔✔Government
✔✔What are the three triggers for moral awareness? - ✔✔1. moral language is used
2. peers think there is a moral issue
3. potential for significant harm exists
, ✔✔what kinds of things tend to reduce moral awareness? - ✔✔-group consensus
✔✔Moral decision making (first and last steps) - ✔✔-gather the facts
-check your gut
✔✔Performance management systems: - ✔✔formal process of articulating employee
goals, identifying performance metrics, providing compensation structure
✔✔Reinforcement theory - ✔✔People are likely to behave in ways rewarded
✔✔Deindividuation - ✔✔psychological process where one is focusing attention on the
role and expectations that accompany it. reduces the awareness of self
-Zimbardo Prison experiment
✔✔Zimbardo Prison experiment - ✔✔Normal people behaved cruelly when placed in
position of power
✔✔The Milgram Experiments - ✔✔the subject had to shock someone because the
professor told them to.
-wanted to see if someone would stop even when told to do something
✔✔Diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔-individual disconnect from consequences of actions
-not personally responsible
-groupthink
✔✔Factors that lead to diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔responsibility:
-taken away
-shared with others
-obscured by hierarchy
-diluted by psychological distance to potential victims
✔✔Goals - ✔✔focus attention on desired outcome and lead individuals to strategize
how to achieve
✔✔Multiple ethical selves: - ✔✔-act different at home and at office
-goal of managers to bring these together
✔✔Groupthink - ✔✔-cohesive groups where members are commited and begin to think
alike
-illusion of morality
✔✔illusion of morality - ✔✔the sense that the group simply wouldn't do anything wrong
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Hypernorm - ✔✔1. Respect Human Dignity (recognizing value of human beings ex.
Providing a safe workplace)
2. Respect Human Rights ( avoid relationships that violate human beings right to health,
education, safety..ect)
3. Good citizenship (to the supprt the institutions on which the community depends)
✔✔Virtue Ethics - ✔✔Decision Rule: Focus is on character and motivations; rules are
derived from the relevant community (often a profession). is decision maker ethical?
Advantages: doesnt require much analysis
Disadvantages: not flexible
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
-THE DISCLOSURE RULE
-OPINION OF ROLE MODEL OR GREATEST CRITIC
✔✔Objectivism - ✔✔Decision Rule: be rational and all you can be.
Advantages: reinforces personal responsibility
Disadvantages: individualistic and judgmental, does not protect the weak
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:
-DECISION MAKER'S INTEREST COMES FIRST
-EMPHASIS ON RATIONAL DECISIONS
EX: MOTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
-anything about happiness
✔✔Consequentialist - ✔✔consider consequences
✔✔Deontological - ✔✔focuses on duties, obligations, principles
✔✔Jack and suzy welch believe if an employee is fired because of ethical violations, it
should be: - ✔✔made widely known to scare other employees
✔✔Nozick's theory of rights: Night watchman - ✔✔Government
✔✔What are the three triggers for moral awareness? - ✔✔1. moral language is used
2. peers think there is a moral issue
3. potential for significant harm exists
, ✔✔what kinds of things tend to reduce moral awareness? - ✔✔-group consensus
✔✔Moral decision making (first and last steps) - ✔✔-gather the facts
-check your gut
✔✔Performance management systems: - ✔✔formal process of articulating employee
goals, identifying performance metrics, providing compensation structure
✔✔Reinforcement theory - ✔✔People are likely to behave in ways rewarded
✔✔Deindividuation - ✔✔psychological process where one is focusing attention on the
role and expectations that accompany it. reduces the awareness of self
-Zimbardo Prison experiment
✔✔Zimbardo Prison experiment - ✔✔Normal people behaved cruelly when placed in
position of power
✔✔The Milgram Experiments - ✔✔the subject had to shock someone because the
professor told them to.
-wanted to see if someone would stop even when told to do something
✔✔Diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔-individual disconnect from consequences of actions
-not personally responsible
-groupthink
✔✔Factors that lead to diffusion of responsibility - ✔✔responsibility:
-taken away
-shared with others
-obscured by hierarchy
-diluted by psychological distance to potential victims
✔✔Goals - ✔✔focus attention on desired outcome and lead individuals to strategize
how to achieve
✔✔Multiple ethical selves: - ✔✔-act different at home and at office
-goal of managers to bring these together
✔✔Groupthink - ✔✔-cohesive groups where members are commited and begin to think
alike
-illusion of morality
✔✔illusion of morality - ✔✔the sense that the group simply wouldn't do anything wrong
