Center for Ethics and Business

Ethical Orientation Questionnaire

Please answer the following questions:
1.	Which is worse?
	hurting someone's feelings by telling the truth telling a lie and protecting their feelings

2.	Which is the worse mistake?
	to make exceptions too freely to apply rules too rigidly

3.	Which is it worse to be?
	unmerciful unfair

4.	Which is worse?
	stealing something valuable from someone for no good reason breaking a promise to a friend for no good reason

5.	Which is it better to be?
	just and fair sympathetic and feeling

6.	Which is worse?
	not helping someone in trouble being unfair to someone by playing favorites

7.	In making a decision you rely more on
	hard facts personal feelings and intuition

8.	Your boss orders you to do something that will hurt someone. If you carry out the order, have you actually done anything wrong?
	yes no

9.	Which is more important in determining whether an action is right or wrong?
	whether anyone actually gets hurt whether a rule, law, commandment, or moral principle is broken