Moral Standard

norms about the kinds of actions that are morally right and wrong, as well as the values placed on what is morally good or bad.

• Ethics

• Norms

• Moral Standards

• Non - moral standards

is a specialized study of moral right and wrong that concentrates on moral standards as they apply to business institutions, organizations, and behavior.

• Bussinus ethics

• Ethics

• Morality

• Benefits

ethical questions about a particular individual’s decisions, behavior, or character.

• Individual

• Corporate

• Systemic

• Ethical Issues

Utilitarianism comes under

• Consequentialist Ethics

• Non Consequentialist Ethics

• Rights and Justice Ethics

_?_ are the effects or results of what we do; good and/or bad

• Duty

• Rights

• Virtues

• Consequences

_?_ is the idea that the right thing to do in any situation is what best serves your own interests.

• Egoism

• Utility

• Right

• Duty

WHY is ethics important in a society?

• Allow people to behave well.

• Allow society to function, helping people to interact with their daily lives in a functional way.

• Allow people to voice their concerns.

• Allow people to follow the rules.

_______________ theory advocates that a morally correct action is one that results in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

• Ethical Relativism

• Ethical Egoism

• Divine Command Theory

• Utilitarianism

A patient comes into a hospital who has been in a car accident and sustained serious injuries. If untreated, the patient will surely die; however, the injuries are treatable and the patient can be saved. The doctor who is to operate notices that the patient is an organ donor. There are five other people in the hospital who need organs, will die without the organs, and have no opportunity to receive such organs (the underlying assumption is that they are all matches for the organs of the patient who just came in). The doctor chose to leave the patient to die. This is an example of _______________ theory.

• Divine Command Theory

• Ethical Relativism

• Utilitarianism

behavior that takes the full advantage of consequences for the individual

• relativism

• universalism

• utilitarianism

• egoism