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Which of the following best describes how marketing can contribute to human flourishing?
Which of the following best describes how marketing can contribute to human flourishing?
- By promoting superficial desires and materialistic values.
- By manipulating consumers through associative advertising.
- By providing helpful knowledge about products and informing consumer decisions. (correct)
- By encroaching into personal privacy with intrusive communication.
Associative advertising, as discussed by Kilbourne, primarily aims to:
Associative advertising, as discussed by Kilbourne, primarily aims to:
- Promote critical thinking about advertising messages.
- Provide consumers factual information about a product's features.
- Encourage consumers to resist manipulative marketing tactics.
- Equate a product or service with positive human values to enhance its appeal. (correct)
Which of the following is an example of how marketing might work against human flourishing?
Which of the following is an example of how marketing might work against human flourishing?
- By respecting human dignity and personal boundaries in advertising.
- By informing consumer decision-making processes.
- By fostering consumerism and potentially harmful behaviors. (correct)
- By creating exchanges that benefit both persons and communities.
According to the materials, which principle is essential for ethical marketing?
According to the materials, which principle is essential for ethical marketing?
In the context of ethical marketing, what does practicing the 'least invasive form of communication' entail?
In the context of ethical marketing, what does practicing the 'least invasive form of communication' entail?
Why, according to Terrill, are ethics so important for investment banking?
Why, according to Terrill, are ethics so important for investment banking?
What is the paramount loyalty that Accountants should have?
What is the paramount loyalty that Accountants should have?
In the context of Enron's ethical failures, which area was NOT explicitly mentioned as a violation of ethical norms?
In the context of Enron's ethical failures, which area was NOT explicitly mentioned as a violation of ethical norms?
What concept is used to describe marketing's pervasiveness and subtle influence on our daily lives?
What concept is used to describe marketing's pervasiveness and subtle influence on our daily lives?
According to the material, how does unethical accounting most likely occur?
According to the material, how does unethical accounting most likely occur?
Which of the following actions exemplifies promoting the value of truth in transformed marketing?
Which of the following actions exemplifies promoting the value of truth in transformed marketing?
How might marketing be considered 'more than a mirror of culture'?
How might marketing be considered 'more than a mirror of culture'?
What is one factor that could cause an ethical problem for an accountant?
What is one factor that could cause an ethical problem for an accountant?
Which ethical principle, if violated by Enron, would relate to their responsibility to the broader community and stakeholders?
Which ethical principle, if violated by Enron, would relate to their responsibility to the broader community and stakeholders?
What primarily distinguishes financial ethics from other areas of business ethics?
What primarily distinguishes financial ethics from other areas of business ethics?
According to the material, what could be considered an unethical action in finance?
According to the material, what could be considered an unethical action in finance?
According to Rae/Wong, what should marketing do for vulnerable people like children and the elderly??
According to Rae/Wong, what should marketing do for vulnerable people like children and the elderly??
What is Sherron Watkins known for in the context of Enron?
What is Sherron Watkins known for in the context of Enron?
Which of the following best represents the ethical issue presented by the encroachment of marketing into many areas of human life?
Which of the following best represents the ethical issue presented by the encroachment of marketing into many areas of human life?
What is a discussion topic related to ethics in marketing?
What is a discussion topic related to ethics in marketing?
Flashcards
How marketing enables human flourishing
How marketing enables human flourishing
Marketing provides consumers with helpful product and company information, informs their decisions, and creates beneficial exchanges for individuals and communities.
How marketing can work against human flourishing
How marketing can work against human flourishing
This involves using imagery and associations to link products with human values, employing manipulation and coercion, invading personal spaces, and potentially promoting harmful beliefs and behaviors.
Transformed Marketing
Transformed Marketing
Ethical marketing involves promoting human dignity, respecting personal boundaries, valuing truth, avoiding deception, protecting vulnerable populations, and using minimally invasive communication methods.
Accounting: Science or Art?
Accounting: Science or Art?
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Accountant's Ethical Conflicts
Accountant's Ethical Conflicts
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Enron's Ethical Violations
Enron's Ethical Violations
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Source of Enron's Ethical Failure
Source of Enron's Ethical Failure
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Whistleblowing on Enron
Whistleblowing on Enron
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Ethically responsible professional
Ethically responsible professional
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Study Notes
Marketing and Human Flourishing
- Marketing provides knowledge on products and companies.
- Marketing informs consumer decision-making.
- Marketing involves exchanges that benefit people and communities.
- Branding signifies particular attributes consumers look for.
Marketing's Drawbacks
- Associative advertising equates images and products with human values like feeling, emotion, and self-worth.
- Marketing involves manipulation, persuasion, and coercion.
- Marketing encroaches into physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of human life.
- Marketing shapes beliefs, values, and behaviors that can harm people and communities.
- Marketing can promote materialism, consumerism, selfishness/narcissism, sexism, and racism.
Ethical Marketing
- Transformed Marketing is ethical and promotes human dignity and personal boundaries.
- Ethical marketing values truth and rejects deception/manipulation.
- Ethical marketing respects and promotes dignity of the vulnerable, including children and the elderly.
- Ethical marketing practices the least invasive forms of communication.
- Flow Motors provides an example of ethical advertising practices.
Ethics and Financial Markets
- Investment banking should serve the common good.
- Financial ethics include investment, accounting, and considerations beyond.
- Certain techniques in finance imply unethical actions.
- Important moral principles should be applied to financial ethics, which might differ from other business ethics.
- Restoring trust is needed in financial markets.
- Enron provides an example of a company not following ethical principles or norms.
Ethics in Accounting
- Accounting is regarded as a mathematical science or an interpretive art.
- Ethical problems occur when accountants have obligations to both the organization and the public (stockbrokers, stockholders, society, etc.)
- These commitments become clearer whether working for a firm/client or as an auditor.
- Accountants are obligated to tell the truth, regardless of their role.
- Enron's accounting firm, Arthur Anderson, committed unethical acts.
- Whistleblowers play a role in ethically responsible accounting.
Enron Scandals
- Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow's moral character is questionable.
- Enron violated ethical norms related to management, leadership, employee dignity, employer/employee relations, advertising, marketing, accounting, investment, finance, and stakeholder responsibilities.
- Enron's failure could be due to a few "bad apples" or a "rotten barrel."
- Sharon Watkins and others did the right thing in blowing the whistle on Enron.
- The Milligram experiment explains the behavior of Enron workers.
- The Enron story provides important moral lessons.
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