Describe one professional experience in which you used evidence as the basis for decision making and one experience in which you made a decision without evidence for support. For each of the situations described, explain how the use of evidence (or the lack of it) impacted the outcome of your decision making. Be specific in terms of positive and negative impacts.

Describe one professional experience in which you used evidence as the basis for decision making and one experience in which you made a decision without evidence for support. For each of the situations described, explain how the use of evidence (or the lack of it) impacted the outcome of your decision making. Be specific in terms of positive and negative impacts.

Business/Professional Ethics Directors/Executives/Acct

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337485913

Author:BROOKS

Publisher:BROOKS

Chapter4: Practical Ethical Decision Making

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 4Q

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Which of the following is not a step in the outline for examining ethical issues? Establish the facts of the situation. Evaluate each course of action. Make a decision. Confirm decision with FASB.
Explain the steps that apply your own sense of right and wrong to ethical dilemmas.
Briefly define what an ethical dilemma is and describe thesteps to consider when evaluating ethical dilemmas.
The assessment of materiality and the relative importance of quantitative andqualitative factors in a particular engagement are matters for the practitioner’s judgement. True or False? and Explain your answer.
To be ethical, the agent (person) must judge action viewed by absoluteness of good motive according to the deontological viewpoint which explains that the deontologists look at the essential consequences of the acts. TRUE or FALSE? Justify your claim and if needed, identify the error and change it into its appropriate use. Provide the positive and negative sides of using deontological ethics.
According to the framework for ethical decision making, which of the following should the decision maker consider? Question 4 options: All possible alternative courses of action. The consequences associated with possible actions. Whether the rights framework would cause any course of action to be added. All of the above.
Refer to the Why It Matters feature “What Is Professional Judgment?” Explain the term professional judgment.
Utilitarianism does not require which of the following actions when a person considers how to resolve an ethical dilemma? a. Identification of the potential problem and courses of action. b. Identification of the potential direct or indirect impact of actions on each affected party who has an interest in the outcome. c. Identification of the motivation of the person facing the ethical dilemma. d. Assessment of the desirability of each action for each affected party.
Describe what is the sequence of steps that provide a framework for analyzing ethical issues?
From the following options, which option appropriately describes an ethical decision? a. Decision that demonstrates respect b. All of the options are correct c. Decision that has fairness d. Decision to sustain trust
Describe a time in your professional life in which you asked one or more critical questions that either uncovered some important information or played a significant role in a situation working out favorably. How might the outcome have been different if you had not asked your question(s)? In addition to identifying what your questions were, consider the way in which you asked your question(s) in the situation. In what ways did you thoughtfully tailor your approach to how you asked the question(s) for your specific audience (i.e., to support open dialogue and information sharing and avoid the other party [or parties] getting defensive)? Reflecting on the situation, is there anything else you might have done differently if faced with a similar situation in the future?
Discuss the link between skeptical judgment and skeptical action and Rest’s Four-Component Model of Ethical Decision Making.