In the absence of ethics programs, employees are likely to make decisions based on
a. their observations of how their coworkers and superiors behave.
b. how they and their family members behave at home.
c. their conscience.
d. their religious values.
e. their family values.
Aurico is a company that offers ethics hotline maintenance and monitoring services for
organizations. Which component of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for
Organizations compliance program does this service help organizations to satisfy?
a. Code of conduct
b. Enforcement of standards, codes, and rules
c. Delegation of authority to ethical persons
d. Systems for monitoring, auditing, and reporting misconduct
e. Ethics training
Ethical concerns in centralized structures can occur because of very little
a. mobility.
b. upward communication.
c. scapegoating.
d. downward communication.
e. communication rigidity.
Which of the following legislation has increased the responsibilities on ethics officers
and boards of directors to monitor financial reporting?
a. Sarbanes-Oxley Act
b. Robinson Patman Act
c. Ethics Officer Responsibility Act
d. Sherman Antitrust Act
e. Enron Financial Responsibility Act
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act outlawed
a. accounting fraud.
b. price collusion.
c. corruption in government.
d. bribery of officials in other countries.
e. executive misconduct.
Board members being linked to more than one company is an example of
a. strategic philanthropy.
b. stakeholder commitment.
c. interlocking directorate.
d. conflict of interest.
e. an illegal activity.
Which of the following is the first step in the ethical decision making process?
a. Being socialized into the firm’s corporate culture
b. Applying a personal moral philosophy in order to individualize the ethical decision
making process
c. Recognizing that an issue requires an individual or work group to make a choice that
ultimately will be judged by stakeholders as right or wrong
d. Soliciting the opinions of others in a work group or in the overall business in order to
gain feedback
e. Enforcing the firm’s ethical standards with rewards and punishment
Laws and regulations change over time; however, in the United States the thrust of most
business legislation can be summed up as
a. any practice is permitted.
b. any practice is permitted that does not substantially reduce competition and harm
consumers or society.
c. any practice is permitted that does not substantially harm consumers or society, but
this applies only within the
United States.
d. any practice is permitted that does not harm the environment.
e. any practice is permitted that does not break the law.
To ensure that an ethics program addresses the needs of the average employee, it should
include all of the following
except
a. feedback from employees across the firm.
b. a question-and-answer section.
c. additional resources for guidance.
d. lengthy legal documents.
e. checklists, illustrations, and cartoons where appropriate.
The term used to express how a firm meets its stakeholder expectations of its economic,
legal, ethical, and philanthropic responsibilities is
a. reputation.
b. corporate citizenship.
c. corporate ethical audit.
d. ethical citizenship.
e. fiduciary duties.
All of the following are goals of the Environmental Protection Agency, except:
a. Focus on the activities of business
b. Protecting America’s water
c. Cleaning up communities and advancing sustainable development
d. Taking action on climate change and improving air quality
e. Ensuring the safety of chemicals and preventing pollution
………….typically focuses on the endresultof actions and happiness created by them,
whereas the meanand motivesby which actions are justified.
a. Pragmatism; hedonism
b. Deontology; pragmatism
c. Utilitarianism; deontology
d. Utilitarianism; a goodness theory
e. A goodnes theory a obligatio theory emphasizes
The first of the three activities that are associated with the stakeholder orientation is the
a. organization-wide generation of data.
b. organization’s responsiveness to intelligence.
c. set of consumer attributes identified.
d. organizational strategy of target markets.
e. human relations department’s set of priorities.
What is a living wage?
a. The minimum wage that a worker requires to meet basic needs.
b. The wage at which the average worker can live really well.
c. It is a synonym for minimum wage.
d. The wage received by child workers in order to stay alive.
e. A wage given to workers entirely in the form of food.
Which represented a far-reaching change to organizational control and accounting
systems, making securities fraud a criminal offense?
a. Council on Economic Priorities and Social Accountability 8000.
b. Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
c. Consumer Protection Act.
d. Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct.
e. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.