1. Timberlands focus on philanthropy costs the company more than $2 million in sales each year.
2. Enron, in mid-2000 was Americas 7th largest corporation.
3. Ethics, found between the domains of law and free choice, is the code of moral principles that governs any individual or groups.
4. Free choice lies between the domains of codified law and ethics.
5. If something is not illegal, it must be ethical.
6. An ethical dilemma arises in a situation when each alternative choice or behavior is undesirable because of potentially harmful ethical consequences.
7. An individual who must make an ethical choice in an organization is called the moral agent.
8. Most ethical dilemmas involve a conflict between the needs of the part and the whole.
9. Utilitarian, individualism, moral-rights, and objective dualism are the four approaches that guide ethical decision-making.
10. Objective dualism is the ethical concept that argues that moral behaviors produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
11. The basis for the recent trend among companies to police employee personal habits such as alcohol and tobacco consumption on the job is called the utilitarian ethic.
12. Monitoring the Internet to maintain the companys ethical climate and workplace productivity could be considered part of an individualistic approach.
13. The ethical concept that acts are moral when they promote the individual’s best long term interests, which ultimately leads to the greater good, is known as the moral rights approach.
14. In the individualism approach, the right of free speech must be considered.
15. Individualism is popular in the highly organized society of today because it supports immediate self-gain.
16. Rights that should be considered in the moral rights approach include the right of free consent, the right to privacy, and the right of freedom of conscience.
17. Procedural justice requires that different treatment of people not be based on arbitrary characteristics.
18. The justice approach is closest to the thinking underlying the domain of free choice.
19. Most of the laws guiding human resource management are based on the individualism approach.