Business Ethics Case Studies and Selected Readings, 9th Edition by Marianne
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M. Jennings
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1. A credo consists of how you define yourself by job title and income.
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2. Part of a credo includes a list of lines you would never cross to be successful.
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3. An ethical breach is not necessarily a violation of the law.
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4. Unwritten rules of conduct are part of our normative standards.
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5. Self-interest is the same as selfishness.
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6. Ethical egoism is selfishness.
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7. Kant would label paying lower wages in developing countries than the wages paid in developed
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economies as unethical.
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8. Kant is part of the utilitarian school of thought on ethics.
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9. Kant and Rand do not agree on the importance of self-interest in ethical theory.
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10. Locke and Rawls develop their ethical theory on the basis of a tabula rasa.
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11. Locke and Rawls are contractarians.
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12. The Rights Theory is generally associated with Plato and Aristotle.
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13. Robert Nozick is the leading thinker for utilitarianism.
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14. Third-trimester abortions would be supported under a Rights Theory.
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