Management Exam 1 Chapter 5

Companies should view whistleblowers as __________ __ ___ ________

assets to be valued

This is the person who is in charge of an organization's overall ethical position. It is his or her responsibility to make sure that organizations member abide by both laws and organizational standards of behavior.

chief ethics officer

"When you do your work, make sure it's your own." In an organization, this kind of statement would be part of the company's ______ ___ _____

code of ethics

This idea of justice says that right and wrong are in balance, and that when something wrong occurs, an action must be taken to make it right; "an eye for an eye"

compensatory justice

Which ethical approach is this? Look, this is a dog-eat-dog business, and everyone has to look out for themselves. I'm going to do what's best for me and my company, and I'm not terribly worried about how people will respond to my actions.

individualism approach

Which ethical approach is this? If we're going to talk about privacy, let's talk about applying the rules of privacy equally to everyone. Yes, Facebook customers have the right to privacy, but I have the right to keep my decisions about how I run my business private. The rules have to apply the same way in both cases.

justice approach

This ethical code says that people have fundamental liberties, and that it is not ethical to take those rights away from them.

moral rights appraoch

Most professors will tell you that there is noting unethical about using prepublished test banks. But suppose that UFC decided to tell their professors explicitly that using prepublished test banks is unethical and professors will be fired for doing so. This information would be found in the university's code of ethics, more specifically in a _________________.

policy-based statement

Any person or group that is affected by or has an interest in the actions of an organization.

stakeholder

You say that there are people who are angry about facebooks privacy policies. But have you ever considered that far more people benefit from those practices than are harmed by them? There are millions of people in the world who want to see ads for things they care about, not irrelevant ads. We have to do what is right for the majority of people, not just for a small group.

utilitarian approach