Blind Spots, By Max H. Bazerman And Ann E. Tenbrunsel

When humans hear the term â€Å"blind spots,† they often have a flashback to an event in life where they were driving and attempted to merge into another lane. Typically there are two outcomes from this event: the neighboring driver honks to alert that there is an impending car accident or that accident actually occurs. The same can be said for ethical decisions where humans often do not know they are making a decision with ethical implications. Unfortunately, there is usually not another person to honk at us alerting of the impending danger. The book Blind Spots, by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, explores these blind spots which pervade ethical decision making for individuals, organizations and society. Throughout the book, the authors offer various areas of day-to-day life where unethical gaps thrive and they offer mechanisms to understand and manage these gaps. Often, unethical human behavior is not intentional, but is coincidentally based on boundaries such as individual knowledge, organizational unanimity, and societal acceptance of policy. On an individual level, although unbeknownst to the individual, humans make decisions based on the best outcomes for themselves, which may result in unintentional and unethical degradation of a fellow human. Further, an organizational setting will compound individual ethical dilemmas as internal groups working together seek acceptance through groupthink, which is the tendency of a work group to come to an agreementShow MoreRelatedThe Ethics Of Blind Spots You Are Given A Lot Different Scenarios Where Both Max H. Bazerman And1057 Words   |  5 PagesWithin Blind Spots you are given a lot different scenarios where both Max H. Bazerman and Anne T. Tenbrunsel test your own ethical values and how you handle them under high pressure situations. What Bazerman and Tenbrunsel are trying to explain and make clear is how we all have blind spots in our ethical point of views. They begin by alerting us of our ethical blind spots so that we are aware of them. They depict the gap between who we want to be and the people we actually are. Anne T. TenbrunselRead MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesPoint/Counterpoint Employer–Employee Loyalty Is an Outdated Concept 87 Questions for Review 88 Experiential Exercise What Factors Are Most Important to Your Job Satisfaction? 89 Ethical Dilemma Bounty Hunters 89 Case Incident 1 Long Hours, Hundreds of E-Mails, and No Sleep: Does This Sound Like a Satisfying Job? 90 Case Incident 2 Crafting a Better Job 91 4 Emotions and Moods 97 What Are Emotions and Moods? 98 The Basic Emotions 100 †¢ The Basic Moods: Positive and Negative Affect 100 †¢ The