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Karakter: A
Fag: GRA6038: Ethics & Sustainability in Organisations
Eksamen: GRA60385 - 40% Innlevering innen Ethics
Innlevering: 30.09.2025

Eksamen inneholdt 2 oppgaver som ble vektet likt. Eksamen sto for 40% av karakteren i faget. (For A besvarelse på 60% eksamen innen Sustainability, se min profil). Oppgavetekst er vedlagt nederst i dokumentet.

Oppgave 1: Consider the ethical aspects of using flattery as a strategy in negotiations and

//Norwegian//

Karakter: A
Fag: GRA6038: Ethics & Sustainability in Organisations
Eksamen: GRA60385 - 40% Innlevering innen Ethics
Innlevering: 30.09.2025

Eksamen inneholdt 2 oppgaver som ble vektet likt. Eksamen sto for 40% av karakteren i faget. (For A besvarelse på 60% eksamen innen Sustainability, se min profil). Oppgavetekst er vedlagt nederst i dokumentet.

Oppgave 1: Consider the ethical aspects of using flattery as a strategy in negotiations and other organizational processes. Apply the principle of equality and the principle of publicity from the curriculum to reflect on real-world cases. Explain how duty ethics and utilitarian ethics – including the branches of act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism - can differ in their approaches to flattery.

Oppgave 2: Use concepts from the curriculum in moral psychology to explain how flattery can become normalized, even if it goes against people’s initial moral intuitions.

Write no more than 2000 words, excluding references. No abstract or summary. Each of the two parts count the same.

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Grade: A
Course: GRA6038: Ethics & Sustainability in Organisations
Exam: GRA60385 – 40% submission in Ethics
Submission: 30.09.2025

The exam contained 2 assignments and were weighted equally. The exam counted for 40% of the grade in the course. (For an A paper on the 60% exam in Sustainability, see my profile.) The assignment text are attached at the end of the document.

Assignment 1: Consider the ethical aspects of using flattery as a strategy in negotiations and other organizational processes. Apply the principle of equality and the principle of publicity from the curriculum to reflect on real-world cases. Explain how duty ethics and utilitarian ethics – including the branches of act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism - can differ in their approaches to flattery.

Assignment 2: Use concepts from the curriculum in moral psychology to explain how flattery can become normalized, even if it goes against people’s initial moral intuitions.

Write no more than 2000 words, excluding references. No abstract or summary. Each of the two parts count the same.