During the 1990s, the primary form of corporate restructuring was which of the
following?
A. downsizing
B. leveraged buyouts
C. corporate takeovers
D. bankruptcy
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What did Lenin call the last stage of fully developed capitalism?
A. imperialism
B. socialism
C. totalitarianism
D. communism
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The issue of the availability of personal information is a problem of which of the
following?
A. Computer crime
B. Computers and corporate responsibility
C. Computers and privacy
D. The changing nature of work
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What is the first level of moral development, according to Lawrence Kohlberg?
A. preconventional
B. conventional
C. autonomous
D. postconventional
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Which of the following is a right workers have?
A. Vacations
B. A living wage
C. Rest periods
D. Workdays of reasonable length
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Which of the following is true about affirmative action?
A. Qualified women and minority members cannot be given preference on the basis of
sex or race.
B. Affirmative action justifies hiring unqualified women or minority members in
preference to men.
C. Preferential hiring is a mandatory way of making adequate progress toward
achieving affirmative-action goals.
D. Qualified women and minority members can morally be given preference in order to
achieve affirmative action goals.
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Which of the following is not true about the moral responsibilities of management?
A. Management is responsible to the board.
B. Management is responsible to the workers.
C. Management is responsible to maximize profits.
D. Management is responsible to the shareholders.
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Which of the following conditions is necessary for whistle-blowing to be morally
obligatory?
A. The employee has exhausted the internal procedures and possibilities within the
firm, maybe even to the board of directors.
B. The whistle-blower has documented evidence that would convince a reasonable,
impartial observer that one’s view of the situation is correct, and that the company’s
product poses a serious danger to the public.
C. The firm will do serious and considerable harm to employees or to the public.
D. The employee has reported the serious threat to his/her immediate supervisor.
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Which of the moral norms prevents engaging in slavery and apartheid, paying less than
subsistence wages, and providing less than adequate and safe working conditions.
A. Promote the development of just background institutions internally.
B. Respect the human rights of workers
C. Do no intentional direct harm
D. Respect the laws of a host country.
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Which step in the assessment of safety is a technical question?
A. Deciding how much safety is demanded with respect to a particular product or
activity.
B. Determining how much safety is attainable and how to attain it in a given endeavor.
C. Ascertaining whether a particular instance of a product or activity comes up to
standards of safety.
D. Deciding who will experience the risk.
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The Myth of Amoral Business is consistent with which of the following?
A. Business and people in business are immoral.
B. Businesses and people in business are inherently ethical.
C. Businesses and people in business are not explicitly concerned with ethics.
D. Businesses and people in business are unethical
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What of the following is an example of reverse engineering?
A. Searching patents and developing a product that navigates between the already
outstanding patents.
B. Taking a particular product and, through analysis, deriving the formula for that
product.
C. Preparing a product from scratch that looks and feels like another popular product.
D. Copying and distributing copyrighted material.
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Subliminal advertising is immoral for which of the following reasons?
A. It makes false statements about a product.
B. It is an overt attempt to persuade.
C. It is coercive and manipulative.
D. It is meaningless because it is easily dismissed.
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Which of the following is the general obligation derived from the system of free
enterprise that holds that parties must be able to count on the actions of other agents
with whom they interact?
A. the obligation to be fair in the transactions in which it engages
B. the obligation not to undermine the freedom and values of the system
C. the obligation to do no harm
D. the obligation to live up to the contracts into which one enters freely
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Which of the following is a common rationale for mergers and acquisitions?
A. diversification
B. bankruptcy
C. monopolization
D. capitalization
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What is the term that refers to compensation given the family of a CEO in the event that
he dies in office?
A. the golden coffin
B. the golden parachute
C. the golden egg
D. the golden will
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According to the International Labor Office, what percentage of children between the
ages of 10 and 14 are working (not only in Asia, but in parts of Western Europe, as
well)?
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 75%
D. 5%
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Which of the following is the general obligation derived from the system of free
enterprise that covers the wide range of issues from just compensation to truth in
advertising to providing the quality of goods or services that one represents oneself as
providing?
A. the obligation to be fair in the transactions in which it engages
B. the obligation not to undermine the freedom and values of the system
C. the obligation to do no harm
D. the obligation to live up to the contracts into which one enters freely
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Which of the following arguments assumes that some fair determination of comparable
work is not only possible, but morally justifiable (and perhaps, morally required)?
A. Equal pay for equal work
B. Equal pay for equivalent work
C. Equal pay for comparable work
D. Equal pay for incompatible work
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Which view of the corporation is a variant of the Myth of Amoral Business?
A. The Organizational View
B. The Moral Person View
C. The Moral Actor View
D. The Organizational Actor View
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Which of the following is not covered by the doctrine of fair use?
A. Scholarly criticism and scholarship
B. Research
C. News reporting
D. Using copies instead of assigning a text
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On the view of this sort of capitalism, the function of government is to preserve the
peace and to adjudicate disputes among those engaged in business transactions.
A. state capitalism
B. socialism
C. totalitarianism
D. laissez-faire capitalism
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Which of the following describe “personal whistle-blowing”?
A. Morally permitted, but not morally required.
B. Morally obligatory.
C. Morally forbidden.
D. Morally irrelevant.
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Which of the following is true about the right to privacy with relation to the Internet?
A. The right to privacy is ethically covered, but not legally.
B. The right to privacy is legally covered, but not ethically.
C. The right to privacy is neither ethically nor legally covered.
D. The right to privacy is both legally and ethically covered.
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Business ethics is typically which of the following?
A. special effects
B. normative ethics
C. casuistry
D. metaethics
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Which of the following is an individual right of the “right to work”?
A. Each person has a claim against his society to have the opportunity to work.
B. Each person has the right to pursue work and should not be prevented by others from
doing so.
C. Work is important for the social dimension that it communicates.
D. The person has a right to develop and express himself through productive labor.
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Which of the following has made it more possible for more people to work from home
or wherever they happen to be?
A. Outsourcing of Labor
B. Corporate Democracy
C. Division of Labor
D. Technology
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The ethical approach maintains that what has intrinsic value is not pleasure, but
happiness.
A. hedonistic utilitarianism
B. ideal utilitarianism
C. eudaimonistic utilitarianism
D. all of these
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“Junk bonds” are attractive to a wide range of investors because they produce which of
the following?
A. high risks
B. normal yields
C. high yields
D. below average risks
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Which of the following is one of the moral responsibilities of management?
A. Management is responsible to the board.
B. Management is responsible to the workers.
C. Management is responsible to maximize profits.
D. Management is responsible to the shareholders.
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The minimal ethical obligation of employers is to respect the human rights of their
workers, and in the case of migrant labor, this means to abide by the rules of which of
the following?
A. The UN Declaration on Human Rights
B. The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Work Protection Act
C. The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families
D. The Illegal Immigration Act
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The ethical approach maintains that what has intrinsic value pleasure and pain.
A. hedonistic utilitarianism
B. ideal utilitarianism
C. eudaimonistic utilitarianism
D. all of these
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What has made the rise of the power of the American consumer possible?
A. The development of technology
B. The rise in spending power of the consumer
C. The development of a class consciousness
D. The inspirational stories of Horatio Alger and others
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Which of the following is true about the right to freedom of expression?
A. Employers can morally limit the right of employees to freedom of speech on the job.
B. Employers can morally limit the right of employees to criticize the company outside
of the workplace.
C. Employers can morally limit the right of employees to criticize the company when
away from the job and on their own time.
D. Employers cannot morally limit the right of employees to freedom of speech.
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Which of the following describes a moral ideal?
A. A pleasure or happiness.
B. A disposition.
C. A goal toward which we can strive.
D. A talent or ability.
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