EXAM 2 BA 300 Austin || with Errorless Answers 100%.
Objectivism - focuses on 2 things correct answers Be rational and be all that you can be
Objectivism - Rand believed that Americans tend to get sloppy because of what?
She believed the only way to convince someone of your decision is through what? correct
answers - She thinks Americans get tend to be sloppy by believing that people's intuitions or
emotions give them a reason or cause to change our way of interacting with one another
-She believed that the only way you should be convincing someone of your decision is through
reason
Biggest pro of objectivism correct answers - Reinforces personal responsibility
-Very important for people to take responsibility for themselves and develop through productive
energy to help themselves with the pros and cons of life
Biggest con of objectivism correct answers -Individualistic and judgmental
-They think it is too self-centered
-people not as community-oriented
- Rand justifies selfishness
What is an example of a company creating its culture based on objectivism? correct answers -
Motive Communications
-Company wants competitive/independent people, not people that want pats on the back
Objectivism pushes what values to the limit? correct answers American values
Objectivism values capitalism
Integrative Social Contract Theory correct answers Decision Rule: decision is ethical if it is
compatible with ethical rules of community I am doing business with=> meaning ethical norms
are authentic, permit exit, allow community voice/input and are legitimate so they do not conflict
with a hyper norm
Integrative Social Contracts Theory pros and cons correct answers Pro:
-Care about local culture, empathize with others
-Adapts to variations in local norms within some global limits
Con: concept of a hyper norm is vague; theory can be impractical
*accepts a community's ethical norms as legitimate ONLY to the extent that they do not conflict
with a hypernorm*
What are the two hyper norms of integrative Social Contract Theory? correct answers 1) Respect
human dignity
2) Respect human rights
, Example of Integrative Social Contract Theory correct answers -Levi Strauss had kids working
as seamstresses in Bangladesh
- people saw this as violating human rights
- Levi's paid for the kid workers education and told them they can come back after school and
work for them
Ethic and care focuses on what two things? correct answers Focus on relationships and
responsibilities
Ethics and care: Focus on relationships correct answers -your relationship with your spouse kids
peers your colleague's coworkers - take care of those people - do not treat those as abstract
people
-if Sam the supplier isn't delivering in time- go talk to him
-he says that his son got hurt that's why things aren't on time
-Relationship-oriented response: no problem, we will make do.
Biggest pro of ethics and care correct answers -protects the weak and dependent
-the theory cares about those less advantaged
Biggest con of ethics and care correct answers - it can neglect justice
- if someone does something wrong, you try to find causes/ feel sorry for them --> enables their
bad behavior
What are care ethics? correct answers emphasizes how ethical reflection should focus on the
quality of caring relationships
What did Gilligan argue about the language of individual rights and justice? correct answers
Argued that it did not accurately capture how people--especially women---understand ethics in
terms of concrete relationships and responsibilities interwoven in life
Why did Gilligan not agree with psychologist Kolberg's stages of moral development? correct
answers Argued that it represented a male bias and that women tend to speak with a different
moral voice
Ethics of care is both ________ theory and _______ theory correct answers - descriptive
psychological theory
- normative theory
Corporation def correct answers Legal entity chartered by the state with rights and
responsibilities apart from the persons running or working for it
In a corporation with shareholders, there is a separation of: correct answers ownership and
control
what are the 2 perspectives that must be kept in mind with corporations? correct answers the
shareholder's value and the stakeholder value
Objectivism - focuses on 2 things correct answers Be rational and be all that you can be
Objectivism - Rand believed that Americans tend to get sloppy because of what?
She believed the only way to convince someone of your decision is through what? correct
answers - She thinks Americans get tend to be sloppy by believing that people's intuitions or
emotions give them a reason or cause to change our way of interacting with one another
-She believed that the only way you should be convincing someone of your decision is through
reason
Biggest pro of objectivism correct answers - Reinforces personal responsibility
-Very important for people to take responsibility for themselves and develop through productive
energy to help themselves with the pros and cons of life
Biggest con of objectivism correct answers -Individualistic and judgmental
-They think it is too self-centered
-people not as community-oriented
- Rand justifies selfishness
What is an example of a company creating its culture based on objectivism? correct answers -
Motive Communications
-Company wants competitive/independent people, not people that want pats on the back
Objectivism pushes what values to the limit? correct answers American values
Objectivism values capitalism
Integrative Social Contract Theory correct answers Decision Rule: decision is ethical if it is
compatible with ethical rules of community I am doing business with=> meaning ethical norms
are authentic, permit exit, allow community voice/input and are legitimate so they do not conflict
with a hyper norm
Integrative Social Contracts Theory pros and cons correct answers Pro:
-Care about local culture, empathize with others
-Adapts to variations in local norms within some global limits
Con: concept of a hyper norm is vague; theory can be impractical
*accepts a community's ethical norms as legitimate ONLY to the extent that they do not conflict
with a hypernorm*
What are the two hyper norms of integrative Social Contract Theory? correct answers 1) Respect
human dignity
2) Respect human rights
, Example of Integrative Social Contract Theory correct answers -Levi Strauss had kids working
as seamstresses in Bangladesh
- people saw this as violating human rights
- Levi's paid for the kid workers education and told them they can come back after school and
work for them
Ethic and care focuses on what two things? correct answers Focus on relationships and
responsibilities
Ethics and care: Focus on relationships correct answers -your relationship with your spouse kids
peers your colleague's coworkers - take care of those people - do not treat those as abstract
people
-if Sam the supplier isn't delivering in time- go talk to him
-he says that his son got hurt that's why things aren't on time
-Relationship-oriented response: no problem, we will make do.
Biggest pro of ethics and care correct answers -protects the weak and dependent
-the theory cares about those less advantaged
Biggest con of ethics and care correct answers - it can neglect justice
- if someone does something wrong, you try to find causes/ feel sorry for them --> enables their
bad behavior
What are care ethics? correct answers emphasizes how ethical reflection should focus on the
quality of caring relationships
What did Gilligan argue about the language of individual rights and justice? correct answers
Argued that it did not accurately capture how people--especially women---understand ethics in
terms of concrete relationships and responsibilities interwoven in life
Why did Gilligan not agree with psychologist Kolberg's stages of moral development? correct
answers Argued that it represented a male bias and that women tend to speak with a different
moral voice
Ethics of care is both ________ theory and _______ theory correct answers - descriptive
psychological theory
- normative theory
Corporation def correct answers Legal entity chartered by the state with rights and
responsibilities apart from the persons running or working for it
In a corporation with shareholders, there is a separation of: correct answers ownership and
control
what are the 2 perspectives that must be kept in mind with corporations? correct answers the
shareholder's value and the stakeholder value
