MGT211 - Week 1 Review

What is the purpose of ethics?

• Knowing the rules of life

• Always knowing the right and wrong thing to do

• Avoiding getting in trouble with the law

• Provide guidance so that people can live together harmoniously

What we are trying to develop in this class is

• saying our opinions about issues

• reflecting on ethical theories, our own and other people's ideas

• memorising the textbook

• saying what we think is right and wrong

What is a NOT a common reason people behave unethically?

• They lack of moral reasoning skills

• They are acting in self-interest

• They are a bad person

• Ethical relativism

What is a moral agent?

• An individual who has to make an important decision or take an action that has the power to affect others.

• A person who knows everything about ethics and can help others

• Someone who always behaves in an moral way

• A real estate agent who charges fair prices

What is a dilemma?

• Something that is too hard for people to solve

• A difficult maths equation

• A question where you don't use facts but your own emotions to help you solve it

• A problem where a choice has to be made between two or more options and no one option is an ideal solution.

What makes a dilemma and "ethical dilemma"? (choose all that apply)

• it has the potential to harm or benefit various stakeholders.

• it involves money

• your personal values may be challenged

• there may be conflicting interests

Why do professionals have special obligations to society (choose all that apply)

• They are paid more money than other people

• They are bound by a code of conduct

• Professionals have specialised knowledge and training

• Society relies on their knowledge

Stakeholders are:

• People involved in making a decision

• People who can be affected by a decision or action

• Everyone in society

• Those who will be harmed by the decision

Which reference is in the correct format

• Benesch, S. (2001). Critical English for academic purposes: Theory, politics, and practice. Price Publishing

• Day, R. (2006). Two principles of perception revealed by geometrical illusions. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58(3), 123-128.

• Grant, Peter, & Grant, Brendan. 2008. How and why species multiply: The radiation of Darwin’s finches. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Terry, C., & Russell, M. (2014). Effects of carbohydrate-hydration strategies on glucose metabolism. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.

Which one is NOT a correct way of writing an in-text citation?

• Benesch (2001) stated that English for academic purposes was “more rhetorical in focus” (p. 6).

• This "avoids the presence of diverse peaks of the same protein" (Medina-Rivero, 2010, p. 1021).

• Apparent space and time vary in essentially the same manner when the spatial and temporal stimulus conditions are equivalent (John Day, Australian Journal of Psychology, 2016).

• Grant and Grant (2008) studied the behaviour of finches on Daphne Major and found that in many cases misimprinted birds mated and hybridised (pp. 95-96).