Ethics

Chapter 02

Ethical Decision-Making: Personal and Professional Contexts

True/False Questions

1. The first step in making decisions that are ethically responsible is to consider all of the people affected by a decision, the people often called stakeholders.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 02-01

Topic: A Decision-Making Process for Ethics

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remember

AACSB: Ethics; Analytic

Page: 47

Feedback: The first step in making decisions that are ethically responsible is to determine the facts of the situation.

2. There is a role for science and theoretical reason in any study of ethics.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 02-01

Topic: A Decision-Making Process for Ethics

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remember

AACSB: Ethics; Analytic

Page: 47

Feedback: Given the general importance of determining the facts, there is a role for science (and theoretical reason) in any study of ethics.

3. A person who acts in a way that is based upon a careful consideration of the facts has acted in a more ethically responsible way than a person who acts without deliberation.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 02-01

Topic: A Decision-Making Process for Ethics

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Understand

AACSB: Ethics

Page: 48

Feedback: A person who acts in a way that is based upon a careful consideration of the facts has acted in a more ethically responsible way than a person who acts without deliberation.

4. In the ethical decision-making process, the issue identification step always follows the fact gathering step.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 02-01

Topic: A Decision-Making Process for Ethics

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Remember

AACSB: Ethics

Page: 48

Feedback: The first step in making decisions that are ethically responsible is to determine the facts of the situation. A second step in responsible ethical decision making requires the ability to recognize a decision or issue as an ethical decision or...