Business Ethics Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of a written coaching agreement from an ethics standpoint?
Answer: To clarify roles, responsibilities, confidentiality, fees, and termination terms
A clear agreement sets expectations and boundaries for all parties, reducing ethical misunderstandings.
A leader asks a coach how to legally minimize overtime pay by classifying hourly workers as exempt without changing their duties. What does this primarily raise?
Answer: A potential violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act
FLSA exempt status depends on actual job duties and salary tests, not just labels.
In stakeholder theory, which group is a business ethically obligated to consider beyond shareholders?
Answer: Employees, customers, suppliers, and communities
Stakeholder theory holds that firms have responsibilities to all groups affected by their decisions.
Which ethical framework judges an action primarily by whether it produces the greatest good for the greatest number?
Answer: Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism evaluates actions based on overall consequences and net benefit.
A coach has a romantic interest in a current client. What is the ethical course of action?
Answer: Avoid any romantic or sexual relationship with the client and address the conflict, potentially by ending the engagement and referring
Professional codes prohibit romantic or sexual relationships with current clients due to power imbalance and conflict of interest.
Which statement best describes 'informed consent' in coaching?
Answer: The client understands the nature, process, limits, and costs of coaching before agreeing to participate
Informed consent requires the client to understand what they are agreeing to and can be revisited as the engagement evolves.
A coach uses personality assessment results to recommend that a client be passed over for promotion. Why is this ethically problematic?
Answer: It misuses developmental data for selection decisions without consent or validation for that purpose
Using developmental assessments for employment decisions without consent and proper validation misuses the data and may raise legal concerns.