BUSINESS ETHICS DECISION MAKING FOR
PERSONAL INTEGRITY 2026 FINAL PAPER
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ In the ethical decision-making process, once one examines the
facts and identifies the ethical issues involved, one should next
________.
Answer: identify the stakeholders
◉ Ethical decisions cannot be made on economic grounds.
Answer: False
◉ Inattentional blindness is the inability to recognize ethical issues.
Answer: False
◉ Normative myopia occurs only in business.
Answer: False
◉ A critical element of comparing and weighing the alternatives is
the consideration of ways to mitigate, minimize, or compensate for
any possible harmful consequences.
,Answer: True
◉ Which of the following is the reason why normative myopia is
especially liable to occur in a business context?
Answer: People are more likely to focus on the technical aspects of
the task at hand in a business context, and thus, fail to recognize the
ethical aspect
◉ Responsibility for the circumstances that can encourage ethical
behavior and can discourage unethical behavior falls predominantly
to the business management and executive team.
Answer: True
◉ If we are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element
of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding
details, no matter how obvious. According to Bazerman and Chugh,
this phenomenon is known as ________.
Answer: inattentional blindness
◉ Focusing failures result in moments where we ask ourselves,
"How could I have missed that?" According to Bazerman and Chugh,
this phenomenon is known as:
Answer: inattentional blindness.
,◉ In an ethical decision-making process, moral imagination helps
individuals make ethically responsible decisions. Identify the step in
which moral imagination is critical.
Answer: Considering the available alternatives
◉ Which of the following considerations can sometimes override
consequences when comparing and weighing alternatives for ethical
decision making?
Answer: Principles
◉ The omission known as change blindness occurs when ________.
Answer: decision makers fail to notice gradual changes over time
◉ Which of the following is the first step in making an ethically
responsible decision?
Answer: Determining the facts of the situation
◉ Identify the final step in the ethical decision-making process?
Answer: Monitoring and learning from outcomes
◉ In an ethical decision-making process, creativity in identifying
options is called "________."
Answer: moral imagination
, ◉ Which of the following is true of moral imagination?
Answer: It distinguishes good people who make ethically
responsible decisions from good people who do no
◉ Which of the following is the second step of the ethical decision-
making process?
Answer: Identifying the ethical issues involved
◉ We tend to give in to ________ in our professional environments,
both because we want to "fit in" and to achieve success in our
organizations, and also because our actual thinking is influenced by
our peers.
Answer: peer pressure
◉ Ethics attempts to answer the question of how we should live, but
it does not give reasons to support its answers.
Answer: False
◉ The rights of employees to minimum wage, equal opportunity, and
to bargain collectively as part of a union are examples of their rights
grounded in moral entitlements.
Answer: False
PERSONAL INTEGRITY 2026 FINAL PAPER
REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS BUNDLED
PRACTICE COLLECTION
◉ In the ethical decision-making process, once one examines the
facts and identifies the ethical issues involved, one should next
________.
Answer: identify the stakeholders
◉ Ethical decisions cannot be made on economic grounds.
Answer: False
◉ Inattentional blindness is the inability to recognize ethical issues.
Answer: False
◉ Normative myopia occurs only in business.
Answer: False
◉ A critical element of comparing and weighing the alternatives is
the consideration of ways to mitigate, minimize, or compensate for
any possible harmful consequences.
,Answer: True
◉ Which of the following is the reason why normative myopia is
especially liable to occur in a business context?
Answer: People are more likely to focus on the technical aspects of
the task at hand in a business context, and thus, fail to recognize the
ethical aspect
◉ Responsibility for the circumstances that can encourage ethical
behavior and can discourage unethical behavior falls predominantly
to the business management and executive team.
Answer: True
◉ If we are told specifically to pay attention to a particular element
of a decision or event, we are likely to miss all of the surrounding
details, no matter how obvious. According to Bazerman and Chugh,
this phenomenon is known as ________.
Answer: inattentional blindness
◉ Focusing failures result in moments where we ask ourselves,
"How could I have missed that?" According to Bazerman and Chugh,
this phenomenon is known as:
Answer: inattentional blindness.
,◉ In an ethical decision-making process, moral imagination helps
individuals make ethically responsible decisions. Identify the step in
which moral imagination is critical.
Answer: Considering the available alternatives
◉ Which of the following considerations can sometimes override
consequences when comparing and weighing alternatives for ethical
decision making?
Answer: Principles
◉ The omission known as change blindness occurs when ________.
Answer: decision makers fail to notice gradual changes over time
◉ Which of the following is the first step in making an ethically
responsible decision?
Answer: Determining the facts of the situation
◉ Identify the final step in the ethical decision-making process?
Answer: Monitoring and learning from outcomes
◉ In an ethical decision-making process, creativity in identifying
options is called "________."
Answer: moral imagination
, ◉ Which of the following is true of moral imagination?
Answer: It distinguishes good people who make ethically
responsible decisions from good people who do no
◉ Which of the following is the second step of the ethical decision-
making process?
Answer: Identifying the ethical issues involved
◉ We tend to give in to ________ in our professional environments,
both because we want to "fit in" and to achieve success in our
organizations, and also because our actual thinking is influenced by
our peers.
Answer: peer pressure
◉ Ethics attempts to answer the question of how we should live, but
it does not give reasons to support its answers.
Answer: False
◉ The rights of employees to minimum wage, equal opportunity, and
to bargain collectively as part of a union are examples of their rights
grounded in moral entitlements.
Answer: False
