d. Produce alternative ethics for organizing human groups. (Correct)
e. All of the above.
2. Sorokin argued that all human cultures were organized around sensate ethics,
ideational ethics, or a combination of both. Sensate ethics is based on:
a. Altruistic values.
3. Ideational ethics are characterized by:
4. Chinese Xunzi Confucianism encourages its followers to offer ethically dubious deals
to foreigners:
a. To test the ethics of foreigners before agreeing to do business. (Correct)
5. Chinese Xunzi Confucianism believes that human nature is basically
6. When a value business relationship has become damaged by a value conflict between
self-interested and altruistic expectations, it may be repairable through a process of
repentance and forgiveness. Successful repentance requires:
a. Apologizing and offering to start again.
Chapter 9: Global business ethics
1. Evolutionary psychology has argued that self-interest and altruism evolved strategies
that solved recurrent problems related to human survival, increased human psycho-
logical fitness, and became part of the genetic make-up of all humans by conferring
higher survival and reproductive rates. Self-interest and altruism:
a. Are uniquely characteristic of humans.