PBS Quiz 1 06/24

What is the FIRST step in ethical decision making?

• To recognize than an ethical issue requires an individual or work group to choose among several actions that many will ultimately evaluate as right or wrong

• To guide and direct others to guide and direct others toward achievement of a goal

• To influence an organizations’ corporate culture and ethical posture

• Gives members of an organization meaning and provides them with rules for behaving within the organization

Those are the framework for understanding Ethical Decision Making EXCEPT

• Opportunity

• Ethical or Unethical Behavior

• Ethical Issue Intensity

• Apathetic

What is Ethical Issue Intensity?

• Seeing the importance of an ethical issue to the individual, work groups and organizations

• Seeing how people resolve ethical issues in their daily lives

• Organizations have greater influence on decisions than a person’a own values

Those described Individual Factors EXCEPT

• How people resolve ethical issues in their daily lives is often based on values and principles learned through family socialization

• In the workplace, ethical issues involve honesty, conflicts of interest,discrimination,nepotism, and theft.

• Employees need education regarding potential    problem areas.

Individual factors include

• Education

• Neighborhood

• Nationality

• Income

Individual factors controls are

• Locus of control

• Intranet control

• External control

• Extranet control

Organizational factor is

• Organization have greater influence on decisions’ than a persons’ own values

• Organization have smaller influence on decisions’ than a persons’ own values

• Person values and organization values should be align to create positive work attitude

• Person values and organization values should be different to create positive work attitude

What is Corporate Culture?

• A set of values, beliefs, goals, norms and ways to solve problems that employees of an organization share

• A component of organization’s health

• The character or decision processes used to determine whether actions are ethical or unethical

• An aspect of influence that significant others can exercise

These are the component of corporate culture EXCEPT

• Ethical climate

• Significant others

• Obedience to Authority

• Challenge

The Henry Mintzberg proposed 3 modes for managers to make decisions EXCEPT

• Entrepreneurial mode

• Adapter mode

• Planning Mode

• Adaptive mode