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Provide a short answer to each of these questions.Be sure to fully explain your answer. What are the differences among "immoral," "moral," and "amoral?"

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Using "moral" as the basic concept that ...

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There is no doubt that the media are

A) ignoring ethical violations in their own industry.
B) reporting ethical problems more frequently and fervently.
C) defending the right of business to be conducted amorally.
D) reporting breaches of ethics in politics more than they are reporting business ethics violations.

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In making ethical judgments,it is usually easier to reach consensus on individual practical cases than it is to agree on broad principles.

The key operating question of immoral management is

The ethical management model that conforms to high standards of behavior or professional standards of conduct is

Provide a short answer to each of these questions.Be sure to fully explain your answer. What is the distinction that the textbook draws between ethics and morality?

Only about half of Americans say that they are worried about the moral compass in corporate America.

The ethics scandal that has come to define modern business ethics is the Enron debacle.

The model of ethical management that implies a positive and active opposition to what is right is called

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?

A November 2009 Gallop poll revealed that almost 40% of the public thought that business executives had low or very low ethics.

Managers who believe that business decisions are not subject to moral constraints tend to utilize the

Utilize 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. The three models of ethical management (immoral,moral,and amoral)provide only one "good" example--that of moral management.However,the authors imply that immoral and amoral management are prevalent in our society,while moral management is practiced less.Which is the bigger problem in our society,immoral or amoral management?

At the macro level,big business is being questioned for its:

The ethics question "how do we get from what is to what ought to be?" is

The discipline that deals with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation is

Moral management stresses profitability over other stakeholder concerns.

The minimum standard of ethical behavior can be thought of as

Descriptive ethics is concerned with studying and describing the morality of a particular group of people.

The key operating question of moral management is