What is the big question of ethics? - ANSCan business protect the environment and improve the
lives of those with whom they interact?
Three distinct types of responsibility - ANSEthical responsibility
Economic responsibility
Legal responsibility
Leeds Model for Value- Based Decision Making - ANS1.Define the Dilemma
2.Identify Alternatives for Responding
3.Determine options That Might Be Right
4.Choose What Is Right
5.Communicate the Decision
6.Reflect on the Decision
Moral Intuition (elephant) - ANSis fast automatic, the feeling of good-bad, or like-dislike and
appears in consciousness. we are not aware of gaving gone through steps of search or weight
evidence or interfering a conclusion
Moral reasoning (rider) - ANSis controlled and is a conscious mental activity that consist of
transforming information about people and their actions in order to reach a moral judgement or
decision
3 keys to behavioral changes in rider/elephant model - ANS1. Direct the rider - give clear
direction, reduce mental paralysis
2. motivate the elephant - find the emotional connection
3. share the path - reduce obstacles, tweak the environment, make the journey go downhill
Milgram Experiment - ANSshowed that most people will obey, especially when an authority
figure is closer, when they can blame others, or when the experiment is conducted by respected
organizations. Some will justify themselves (least likely to change), some blame themselves
(likely to be a rebel in the future). rebels are in the minority. show us that obedience is difficult
and unlikely to change but not blind. person obeying does not blindly obey, but those who obey
void personal ethics
Ariley found as an effective way to reduce cheating - ANS1. signing an honor code
2. remembering a more code like the ten commandments
3. being watched
according to arieley what conditions make us more likely to cheat - ANSworking in a culture
where lots of other people are cheating