Graded Homework

The consultation of an outside source, such as a person or a book, for guidance.

The belief that a person must decide what course of action is proper based on that person’s own set of beliefs and feelings.

Determining which course of action produces the greatest amount of good for society.

A set of universal rules based on reasoning that must be applied in all situations and characterized by reversibility.

Ethics focuses on the way in which ethical principles apply in making moral determinations in life.

Ethics is not concerned with the way moral rules are derived.

The immoral conduct of corporate management is not likely to affect the behavior of lower level employees.

Ethical codes of conduct cannot help to set the ethical tone of a firm.

An employee is morally required to “blow the whistle” but only when his or her employer is acting in a clearly illegal manner.

To act in a moral manner, the whistleblowing employee must immediately bring his or her concerns about the employer’s alleged wrongful conduct to the media.

A company should require a written acknowledgment that the employee has received a copy of the ethics code.

One major problem with the Utilitarian ethical theory is that it does not take a sufficiently broad stakeholder approach to decision-making in business.

One has a legal duty to rescue a person in need

One may have a moral duty to rescue a person in need

If one is the last real chance to rescue a person in need, one is always acting immorally by failing to rescue

The law will always immunize a person from a negligent but good faith rescue attempt.