A _______________ is any person or group with a stake in the issue at hand. - stakeholder
The ___________ approach to ethical decision making focuses on how people actually make ethical
decisions - descriptive
The ___________ approach to ethical decision making focuses on what decision an individual should
make - prescriptive
The prescriptive approach is to ____________ as the descriptive approach is to _____________. -
philosophy; psychology
______ is probably the best-known consequentialist theory - Utilitarianism
The ___________ states that an ethical decision should maximize benefits to society and minimize
harms - principle of utility
A ________ focuses on doing what is "right" (based on moral principles or values such as honesty),
whereas a _________ focuses on doing what will maximize societal welfare. - deontologist;
consequentialist
A major challenge of _____ approaches is deciding which duty, obligation, right, or principle takes
precedence because, as we said earlier, ethical dilemmas often pit these against each other -
deontological
The _____ approach focuses more on the integrity of the moral actor (the person) than on the moral act
itself (the decision or behavior). - virtue ethics
The __________ challenges one to ask, "how would you feel if your behavior appeared in The Wall
Street Journal?" - disclosure rule
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