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Moral imagination is:

A) imagining the best possible outcome.
B) being able to see economic and moral relationships
C) the ability to see the relevance or nonrelevance of issues
D) deciding which course of action to adopt.

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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -What are the seven habits of highly moral leaders?

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tilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. -Powers and Vogel have suggested that there are six major elements or capacities that are essential to making moral judgments: (1) moral imagination, (2) moral identification and ordering, (3) moral evaluation, (4) tolerance of moral disagreement and ambiguity, (5) integration of managerial and moral competence, and (6) a sense of moral obligation. What is the link of each of these to personal and organizational ethics?

The postconventional level of moral development is the most common level for adults over 50 years of age.

Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -If business ethics have, in reality, declined over the past decades, what are the primary reasons for this movement?

The sense that concern for fairness, justice, and due process to people, groups, and communities should be woven into managerial decision-making is called

Before Enron, many thought business ethics was a problem with the top of the pyramid.

Normative ethics depends on whether "everyone is doing it" to justify moral decisions and actions.

The key operating question of immoral management is

The best reason to base one's ethics on societal norms is that the norms do not conflict; thus they provide clear guidance to "right" and "wrong."

Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -Describe and evaluate the "what is?" ethics question.

The key operating question of amoral management is

Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -Distinguish between descriptive and normative ethics.

The focus of descriptive ethics is on

Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -Interpret the authors' statement that "many business people go through life deluded by the illusion of objectivity."

The public's opinion of business ethics may be reported at two levels - a high level and a low level.

Characteristics of intentionally amoral managers include all of the following except

Ethical behavior is generally considered to be on a higher plane than legal behavior.

tilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. -Lawrence Kohlberg found that most adults never get to the third level of moral development. What implications for management does this observation have?

Which of the following is not a model of ethical management provided in the textbook?