Managing Business Ethics Straight Talk About How To Do It Right 7th Edition Linda K. Trevino, Katherine A. Nelson - Solutions

Some of the steps in the 8-step model might suggest very different courses of action for resolving your dilemma. How would you choose among these distinct courses of action? Why?
Think about a situation where your values have been in conflict. How have you resolved those conflicts? Now that you have studied the ethical decision-making frameworks in this chapter, what should you have done?
The last question leads us to a useful exercise. If you had to write your own epitaph, what would it say? How would you like to be remembered? What kind of life do you hope to lead? What kind of a career would you like to have?
Albert Schweitzer (philosopher and mission doctor) said “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” What do you think? How does this relate to the prescriptive approaches discussed in the chapter?
What limitations, if any, can you think of to the prescriptions provided in this chapter? Can you think of reasons why they might not work?
What do you think of the proposed Hippocratic Oath for managers?
Should a person be permitted to place a value on a human life? Should a company? Should the government? If not, how would decisions be made about whether to market certain products (that might be risky for some, but helpful for others), how much those who have lost family members in disasters
What do you value? Can you make a list of the three or four values you would stand up for? How will you explain to others what your values are and why?
Have you ever practiced raising an ethical issue to a professor or to your manager? What did you do? What were the results?
What conditions would have to be present for you to blow the whistle about unethical conduct you observed at work? How would you go about it?
To the best of your ability, use the questions in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 to conduct an ethics audit of the formal and informal systems in your organization.
Having conducted the ethics audit, identify the formal and informal systems that are in need of attention. Where is the culture out of alignment? Design a change program to address weaknesses and to align formal and informal systems into a strong ethical culture.
Think about an organization where you've worked. What kinds of ethical dilemmas are unique to that organization? To that industry? What might be the best way to prepare employees to deal with those issues?
Think about your own positive, memorable, “peak experiences” when it comes to ethics. Be prepared to discuss those with others in your class and to think about the conditions that would make it possible for such experiences to happen more regularly at work. Or, if you don’t have much work
Evaluate yourself or a manager you know using the "do you walk your talk" questions above.
Choose a company and analyze its CSR report. In doing so, think about what seem to be its reasons for being socially responsible. Is it pragmatic, ethical, strategic, or some combination? Can you identify its key stakeholders?
Using the same company as an example, think about the four types of corporate social responsibility. What is your assessment of how the company is doing?
With reference to the CSR pyramid, what are the implications of stopping at a particular pyramid level? For example, would it be all right if a company took its sole responsibility to be financial responsibility to its shareholders? financial responsibility and legal responsibility? Do you agree
Do you believe that employees are more attracted and committed to socially responsible companies? Why or why not? Are you? Why or why not?
Think about industry-disrupting companies such as Uber (disrupting the taxi industry) and Airbnb (disrupting the hotel industry). Research them if you don’t know much about them. What are the legal and ethical issues facing them? In what ways are they being responsible, irresponsible? How would
What role, if any, does a company’s reputation play a role in your purchasing decisions?
Is posting online any safer than posting your personal information on a billboard along a busy highway?
What role do you think the personality and other characteristics of a CEO play in the handling of an ethical problem?

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