Chapter 12: Managing context to promote ethical change

2. Which of the following are contextual factors that can affect whether a person will behave in a responsible way (there are three correct answers)?

Proximity Empathy Magnitude of the consequences of a decision Pressure to comply with the demands of others Machiavellianism

3. Ethical imperialism states that:

there are no universal rights and wrongs there is an ethical code that dictates what is right and wrong in all situations anything goes, whatever the situation

4. Sully de Luque et al. (2008) found that where leaders emphasized economic values and prioritized the bottom line, their subordinates were more likely to perceive them as:

responsible trustworthy competent autocratic

5. Leaders can promote responsible behaviour by (there are three correct answers):

ensuring that all employees are aware of the social, ecological and ethical issues that the business must address fostering values that support responsible management developing mission statements and codes of practice that emphasize ethical ways of working developing reward systems and performance review processes that focus attention on the bottom line All of the above

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