69) Identify the correct statement about the rights theories.
A) Human beings have fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries.
B) The moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequences.
C) People should be treated as ends never purely as means to the ends of others.
D) The only social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the company stays
within the rules of law.
70) Which of the following persons believed that people should be treated as ends and never purely
as means to the ends of others?
A) John Stuart Mill
B) Immanuel Kant
C) Milton Friedman
D) David Hume
71) The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, related to employment, upholds
which of the following?
A) the requirement for the formation of trade unions
B) a sliding pay scale based upon need
C) prohibition of trade unions
D) protection against unemployment
72) Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: All human
beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. This best echoes
A) cultural relativism.
B) the Friedman doctrine.
C) the righteous moralist approach.
D) Kantian ethics.
73) Which of the following statements is true about the United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights?
A) It transcends national borders.
B) It states that human rights are culturally determined.
C) It states that an action is judged desirable if it leads to the best possible balance of good
consequences over bad consequences.
D) It states that the only social responsibility of business is to increase profits, so long as the
company stays within the rules of law.
74) Justice theories of business ethics focus on
A) the moral worth of actions or practices.
B) minimum levels of morally acceptable behavior.
C) fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries.
D) the attainment of an equitable distribution of goods and services.
75) According to John Rawls,
A) each person should be permitted the maximum amount of basic liberty compatible with a
similar liberty for others.
B) freedom of speech and assembly is the single most important component in a justice system.
C) equal basic liberty is impossible in a pure market economy.
D) ethics is culturally determined.
76) Rawls’ philosophy that inequalities are justified if they benefit the position of the
least-advantaged person is known as the
A) inequality principle.
B) equity principle.
C) difference principle.
D) ignorance veil principle.
77) According to John Rawls’s difference principle,
A) certain people or institutions are obligated to provide benefits or services that secure the rights
of others.
B) fundamental human rights should transcend national borders and cultures.
C) the best decisions are those that produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
D) inequalities are justified if they benefit the position of the least–advantaged person.
78) A ________ asserts that if a manager of a multinational sees that firms from other nations are
not following ethical norms in a host nation, that manager should not either.
A) Kantian ethicist
B) righteous moralist
C) naive immoralist
D) utilitarian ethicist
79) Any person or institution that is capable of moral action such as a government or corporation is
a
A) moral agent.
B) utilitarian.
C) righteous moralist.
D) naive immoralist.
80) Under the veil of ignorance, everyone is imagined to be ignorant of
A) all of his or her particular characteristics.
B) fundamental rights and privileges.
C) the moral worth of actions or practices.
D) the minimum levels of morally acceptable behavior.
81) The veil of ignorance was developed by ________ as part of his approach to justice theories.
A) Milton Friedman
B) John Rawls
C) Kantian
D) Leon Sullivan
82) ________ enables managers to walk away from a decision that is profitable but unethical.
A) Utilitarianism
B) Righteousness
C) Just distribution
D) Moral courage
83) A firm’s ________ include customers, suppliers, and lenders.
A) internal stakeholders
B) clients
C) external stakeholders
D) community
84) External stakeholders
A) are individuals or groups who own the business.
B) include all employees, the board of directors, and stockholders.
C) are typically customers, suppliers, lenders, etc.
D) are individuals or groups who work for the business.
85) Which of the following is an example of an external stakeholder?
A) employees
B) customers
C) stockholders
D) the board of directors
86) ________ is a French term that refers to honorable and benevolent behavior, considered the
responsibility of people of high (noble) birth.
A) Bienveillante
B) Honourable
C) Aristocratic
D) Noblesse oblige
87) ________ means standing in the shoes of a stakeholder and asking how a proposed decision
might impact that stakeholder.
A) Veil of ignorance
B) Difference principle
C) Moral imagination
D) Noblesse oblige
88) Which of the following enables managers to walk away from a decision that is profitable, but
unethical?
A) noblesse oblige
B) moral courage
C) the difference principle
D) the Friedman doctrine