What is an ethics audit? What questions should be asked in the course of an ethics audit?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: An ethics audit is a systematic method of evaluating an organization's adherence to its stated values. It is completed by answering six questions: (1) What is our organization's ethics code? (2) How do we communicate that code to ourselves and others? (3) What do key publics, including employees, know about our ethics code? (4) What successes in ethics have we recently had? And why? (5) What setbacks in ethics have we recently had? And why? (6) What can we do to bolster strengths and reduce weaknesses in our ethics?

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What is the best strategy to use in dealing with a hostile audience?

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Margaret is passionately committed to animal rights. At an evening lecture required for her biology class, she learned that the title of the speaker's talk was "The Importance of Animal Experimentation to Medical Advances." Offended and sure that the speaker had nothing ethical or interesting to say, Margaret ignored everything the speaker said and spent the whole lecture sending outraged tweets to other animal activists. According to your textbook, the primary cause of Margaret's poor listening was

A. poor concentration. B. spare "brain time." C. jumping to conclusions. D. being distracted by external interference. E. focusing on the speaker's topic.

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