Special ethics applies to which of the following?
A. It analyzes hidden presuppositions and brings them to light for critical scrutiny
B. It consists of studying and describing the morality of a people, culture, or society.
C. It analyzes societal practices and their application to particular problems.
D. It consists of applying general ethics to particular problems.
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The United States government defines which of the following as the income level at
which a family of four can be supported?
A. the poverty level
B. the minimum wage level
C. the living wage level
D. the welfare level
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Which of the following is the art of solving difficult problems, cases, or deliberations
through the careful application of moral principles?
A. special effects
B. normative ethics
C. casuistry
D. metaethics
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Which of the following conditions is necessary for whistle-blowing to be morally
permissible, but not morally obligatory?
A. The firm will do serious and considerable harm to employees or to the public.
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 employee has good reason to believe that by going public, the necessary changes
will be brought about.
D. The whistle-blower has reason to believe that he/she will be seen as failing to be
loyal to the company.
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Which of the following is not considered inside information?
A. Trade secrets
B. Company strategy
C. Company plans
D. Stock value
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Who was the moral philosopher who wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments as well as
The Wealth of Nations?
A. John Locke
B. John Wesley
C. David Hume
D. Adam Smith
E. Immanuel Kant
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Which of the following is not a part of the “Triple Bottom Line?”
A. The financial bottom line
B. The environmental bottom line
C. The social/ethical bottom line
D. The human resources bottom line
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Which of the following is an example of intellectual property?
A. Land, buildings, and additions on the land.
B. Money, stocks, bonds, financial securities.
C. Expressions of ideas, inventions, discoveries.
D. Some physical item that we can touch, though not usually land and buildings.
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Which of the following is a negative or liberty 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 is NOT a condition for an action to be considered a moral
action?
A. It must take into consideration the particular circumstances.
B. It must be amenable to being made consistently universal.
C. It must respect rational beings as ends in themselves.
D. It must stem from, and respect, the autonomy of rational beings
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Which of the following is not a benefit of international outsourcing?
A. Purchasing goods more cheaply
B. Cheaper labor
C. Closer controls on the manufacturing process
D. Easier regulatory practices
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Consequentialism belongs to which sort of ethical approach?
A. deontological
B. special
C. teleological
D. theological
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The ethical approach that maintains that what has to be calculated is not pleasure or
happiness but all intrinsically valuable human goods, which include friendship,
knowledge, and a host of other goods valuable in themselves
A. hedonistic utilitarianism
B. ideal utilitarianism
C. eudaimonistic utilitarianism
D. all of these
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Which of the following is an example of hostile environment sexual harassment?
A. Submission to sexual requests as a condition of continued employment.
B. Failure to keep the workplace free from actions by other employees or managers that
create an offensive environment.
C. Words or actions of a sexual nature that interfere with one’s work.
D. Words or actions with sexual overtones that make an employee uncomfortable.
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Which of the following is the popular name of the Federal National Mortgage
Association?
A. Fannie Mae
B. Freddie Mac
C. Freddie Mae
D. Fannie Mack
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What is the third step in the assessment of safety?
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. Lowering the level of risk until it is found, by the ordinary person, to be acceptable.
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Which of the following is not been part of the changing mandate of American business?
A. The mandate of American business has been changed through legislation.
B. The mandate of American business has been changed through collective bargaining.
C. The mandate of American business has been changed by the American people have
operating with a plan.
D. The mandate of American business has been changed by consumerism.
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Whistle-blowing is often thought to indicate the falsity of which common myth?
A. The Myth of Stakeholder Interest
B. The Myth of Amoral Business
C. The Myth of Moral Business
D. The Myth of Shareholder Interest
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Which of the following is the general obligation derived from the system of free
enterprise that is sometimes called the “moral minimum”?
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 needs that the American government has sought to meet has to
do with the financing of government activities?
A. Control of economic cycles
B. Taxation
C. Correction of unfair tendencies and of market failures
D. Development of a welfare safety net
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Which of the following is an example of quid pro quo sexual harassment?
A. Submission to sexual requests as a condition of continued employment.
B. Failure to keep the workplace free from actions by other employees or managers that
create an offensive environment.
C. Words or actions of a sexual nature that interfere with one’s work.
D. Words or actions with sexual overtones that make an employee uncomfortable.
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According to Kant, the second form of the Categorical Imperative is which of the
following?
A. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another,
always as an end and never as a means only.
B. Act only in that way that you would want another to act toward you.
C. Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it
should become a universal law
D. Act only so that the will through its maxims could regard itself at the same time as
universally lawgiving.
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Where does tradition with the corporate community tend to place the burden of
justification in a whistle-blowing case?
A. On the whistle-blower’s co-workers who should support the whistle-blower.
B. On the whistle-blower’s immediate superior.
C. On the employee blowing the whistle.
D. On the corporation’s senior management and corporate attorneys.
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Which of the following is the ability to reason about the morality of an action, together
with a set of values, feelings, and dispositions to do or to avoid doing certain actions?
A. Moral guilt
B. Moral shame
C. Moral remorse
D. Conscience
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Which philosopher claims that each person, in pursuing his own good, indirectly and
unknowingly also promotes the public interest?
A. John Stuart Mill
B. Jeremy Bentham
C. John Rawls
D. Adam Smith
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Which of the following is the model of capitalism that is closest to the model employed
in contemporary Japan?
A. Government only preserves the peace and adjudicates disputes among those engaged
in business.
B. Government is the protector of capitalists at the expense of the other members of
society.
C. Government should help business by imposing quotas, import taxes, and other means
to make foreign interests less competitive.
D. Government and business cooperate for the sake of both business and society as a
whole.
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Which of the following aspects of the quality of work life has to do with the
involvement workers have with their work, particularly with regard to worker
autonomy, worker responsibility, and greater worker interaction with management?
A. Conditions of Labor
B. The Attitude of the Worker toward Work
C. Organization of the Work Performed
D. Relations of the Workers among Themselves
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What is the name given to philosophers who attempt to use only one ethical approach to
ethical questions?
A. ethical pluralists.
B. utilitarians
C. ethical monists.
D. deontologists
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Which of the following is a Rawlsian argument against discrimination?
A. Since the least advantaged in a society would be better off in a nondiscriminatory
society than in one that discriminates, the rational person would see that
nondiscrimination is morally preferable.
B. People are treated as members of class with a certain characteristic, not as persons.
They are not ends in themselves, but because of that characteristic, they are denied
equal treatment and respect.
C. The dominant class has a desire to maintain its superiority and its class prerogatives.
D. Systematic discrimination produces a class of people who are arguably treated
unjustly. Other groups in the society will also have cause to worry about whether they
will be the next group to be discriminated against. On the whole, more harm than good
is done.
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Which of these is not a right that employees have?
A. The right to be treated with respect.
B. The right to be fairly compensated.
C. The right to meaningful work.
D. The right to work in safe conditions.
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The view that while the resources of the world have been divided, the division is not
necessarily morally justifiable, and that all have a universal right to the resources of the
earth.
A. The Status Quo view
B. The Universal-Ownership view
C. The Right to Universal Access view
D. The Imperialistic view
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When, in the event of a civil emergency like a hurricane, merchants raise prices beyond
what is considered a fair or reasonable price, the practice is called which of the
following?
A. Price gouging
B. Price fixing
C. Price markups
D. Price jobbing
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