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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...