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Within business, an organization's context sometimes makes it difficult for even the best-intentioned person to act ethically.

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B) False

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_____ is one element that distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not.

A) Normative myopia
B) Inattentional blindness
C) Change blindness
D) Moral imagination

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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We tend to give in to _____ in our professional environments, both because we want to "fit in" and to achieve success in our organizations, and also because our actual thinking is influenced by our colleagues.

The most helpful way to compare and weigh the alternatives is to try to place oneself in the other person's position.

Give three examples each of social and institutional roles.

Which of the following is a cognitive barrier to responsible, ethical decision-making?

Which of the following elements is important not only to consider the obvious options with regard to a particular dilemma, but also the much more subtle ones that might not be evident at first blush?

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.

Elaborate on the concept of perceptual differences in ethics.

Explain the role of sciences in the study of ethics.

Discuss the various types of intellectual or cognitive stumbling blocks that one can face when trying to make a responsible ethical decision.

Explain the importance of determining the facts when making a responsible ethical decision.

"A critical element of this step in the ethical decision-making process will be the consideration of ways to mitigate, minimize, or compensate for any possible harmful consequences or to increase and promote beneficial consequences." Which step is this?

Which of the following cognitive barriers, when used, might appear to relieve us of accountability for the decision, even if it may not be the best possible decision?

Putting ethics into practice requires not simply decision-making, but _____ decision-making.

Which step in the ethical decision-making process occurs once you have considered how a decision affects stakeholders by comparing and weighing the alternatives?

Inattentional blindness is the inability to recognize ethical issues.

_____ differences surrounding how individuals experience and understand situations can explain many ethical disagreements.

In the ethical decision-making process, creativity in identifying options is also known as ____.

In an ethical decision-making process, creativity in identifying options is called "_____."