1. What are the main differences between factors that contribute to the development of moral consciousness?
2. Jan is a manager whose company has been asked to comply with a recent legal ruling that she finds ethically dubious. What steps should Jan take to evaluate how her company should respond to this ruling?
3. Compare and contrast utilitarian ethics with deontological ethics.
4. Imagine that you work for a car manufacturer that highly values both reasonable costs for consumers and environmental benefits. You discover that the technology used in your cars is not quite environmentally friendly enough to justify the price that you've set for the cars, but it will be soon if your company can research technological advancement. However, in order to fund your company's research, you have to make a profit by selling cars. Your company decides to create a means of cheating emissions tests in order to get the cars on the road. How should you use systematic rational ethical decision-making to determine what you should do as a member of this company while wanting to be an ethical individual?
5. Minerva is a manger. She has an employee who believes that the ends always justify the means, which conflicts with her own ethical framework. This employee, because of their beliefs, is willing to sacrifice excellent customer service or communication with stakeholders in order to achieve the ends they believe are valuable. How should Minerva communicate with this employee if she wants to persuade them to refrain from this behavior?
6. Heinrich has recently begun to suspect that some of his employees are in danger of engaging in unethical behaviors in order to meet company goals. What kinds of signs should he look for if he wants to help preempt any unethical behaviors?

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