The arthur andersen auditors did not notice how low enron had fallen in terms of its unethical decisions over a period of time. according to bazerman and chugh, this omission is an example of

C. change blindness.

Options:

A. inattentional blindness.

B. descriptive ignorance.

C. change blindness.

D. normative myopia.

Explanation:

Change blindness: in this case, the auditors did not notice the changes that had occurred. Change blindness is not associated with small insignificant differences but big changes.

In contrast inattentional blindness occurs when an ethical problem arises because we don’t pay attention to an issue.

Normative myopia is the failure to identify that there is an ethical problem, for example a sales person can be so focused on making a sale that they make the deal seem more attractive than it really is.

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