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1. How does diversity of background and experience influence the evolution of personal and individual ethics? Please support your answers with examples, from real life if possible.

2. What effect does managerial decision-making and leadership have on organizational ground rule changes? Please support your answers with examples, from real life if possible.

3. Why are the ethics changing that we use to relate to each other? Please support your answers with examples, from real life if possible.

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Ethics are basically an individual's moral value/belief system that can be shaped by culture and experience. Ethics can have a stron impact on organizational decision making and on the ways employees relate to each other.

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1. How does diversity of background and experience influence the evolution of personal and individual ethics? Please support your answers with examples, from real life if possible.

Ethics are basically an individual's moral value/belief system that can be shaped by culture and experience. Various cultures express themselves differently from one another. For example, in certain cultures, it is very disrespectful for a woman to walk next to her husband-she must always be a step behind him. Whereas, in the American culture, it is perfectly normal for a woman to walk next to her husband or even in front of him. Therefore, it is very easy for a husband from the first culture to feel it's unethical for his American wife to walk ahead of him, believing she wants to be in total control of the relationship.
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