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Quality assurance concerns exist between firms as well as between firms and
consumers.
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All foreign countries have gender role consistent with U.S. law.
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Rawls believes justice can never exist with inequality.
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Milton Friedman believed the doctrine of 'social responsibility" involved the acceptance
of a socialist view.
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Thalidomide is a new drug.
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The environment has to be everyone's top concern at all times.
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ExxonMobil has an environmental policy.
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A monopsonist is a buyer that controls a market.
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Eskimos practice "marriage" in a different form than is typical of Western society.
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Consulting firms should freely share confidential information among their clients.
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Bernie Ebbers, one-time Worldcom CEO, wound up in jail.
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Trust can sometimes serve immoral purposes.
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Virtue theory ethics emphasizes character.
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Andrew Carnegie believed in capitalism.
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Wages are largely the same throughout the world.
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The commercial insecticide Neemix is based on a natural compound.
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Usury in the charging of interest on a consumer transaction.
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FET stands for Foundation on Environmental Trends.
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H.B. Fuller is a Honduran company.
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Informative advertising, by definition, cannot also be persuasive.
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We must stop using all resources and save everything for future generations.
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Participation increases support for decisions.
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TGI stands for Transaction Geared Information.
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Fingerhut targets upper income consumers.
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Aristotle is the philosopher who is best known for emphasizing the cultivation of ethics.
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Companies have no ethical obligation to help managers distinguish between practices
that are merely different and those that are wrong.
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The expanding globalization of business has brought with it the increased importance of
an international business ethics.
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Blood plasma has no value.
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Business ethics depends heavily for its context on the structures in which business
operates.
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Utilitarians only offer business the cost benefit analysis.
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Fewer than 20% of private sector workers are covered by traditional pension plans.
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Peggy McIntosh believes whites are carefully taught to recognize white privilege.
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Cultural relativism is itself absolute.
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Federal rules allow for no gaps in funding defined-benefit pension plans.
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Wal-Mart refers to its workers as Wal-Martians.
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The poor adapt as well to technology as any other group having similar access to the
given technology.
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The price of raw materials varies throughout the world.
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Trust is an unconditional value.
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White privilege and male privilege both can be found in the workplace.
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Racism, sexism, and heterosexism can negatively impact _____ .
A) those in the "unprivileged" group in each category
B) anyone
C) those in the "privileged" group in each category
D) men only
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Hypernorms are _____ .
A) norms shared by neighboring countries
B) very fast-moving norms
C) the most fundamental of norms
D) norms that change every few years
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Raw materials have not yet run out due to _____ .
A) continuing discovery
B) conservation
C) recycling
D) lack of use
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Fingerhut sold products for more than its competition _____ .
A) because it offered high-risk credit
B) because it simply was lucky in business
C) because it sold only unique products
D) because it "free" included insured shipping door-to-door
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Which company has not been accused of using sweatshop labor to profit?
A) Nike
B) Gap
C) Wal-Mart
D) None of these
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Heterosexism is reflected by society _____ .
A) Holding gay pride parades
B) Being slow to adapt gay marriage
C) Recognizing gay rights
D) Watching the Ellen DeGeneres show
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A corporation is _____.
A) a real person
B) a group of people
C) stockholders
D) an artificial person
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Rawls believes society is characterized by conflict and _____ .
A) an identity of interests
B) divergent interests
C) life interests
D) indifferent interests
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Private property _____ .
A) is a component of modern society
B) belongs to everyone in common
C) first existed in England
D) requires manufacture
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"Moral free space" means:
A) There are no standards of morality here.
B) Each community can modify moral rules to an extent.
C) Anything can be considered true or false depending on circumstance.
D) Morality must not cost money.
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White privilege is reflected by _____ .
A) films such as "White Men Can't Jump"
B) the recognition of heterosexual marriages
C) legalized racism
D) the need to consider African-Americans as a "protected group under the law"
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John Dewey is considered to be in which 'school" of Philosophy?
A) Hedonism
B) Virtuism
C) Utilitarianism
D) Pragmatism
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Union membership today in the U.S. is approximately:
A) 25% of all workers
B) 20% of all workers
C) 10% of all workers
D) 5% of all workers
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Crisp believes which of the following is a primary value?
A) Autonomy
B) Belief
C) Creativity
D) Desire
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Worldcom grew mostly through _____ .
A) price increases
B) acquisitions
C) layoffs
D) new customers
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Neemix is _____ .
A) a pesticide patented by W.R. Grace
B) an Indian tree
C) a foreign formulation of a pesticide
D) unprofitable
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Resistol is _____ .
A) a toxic substance
B) the theory that we should resist change
C) a company with business in Central America
D) an organization concerned with corporate ethics
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The Code of Fair Information Practices _____ .
A) was never adopted
B) is federal law
C) is law in 36 states
D) is effect only in California
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Enron started as _____ .
A) the result of a merger of two traditional companies
B) a maverick oil and gas concern
C) an energy trading concern
D) a South American company
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Milton Friedman is _____.
A) a Nobel Prize winning environmentalist
B) a Nobel Prize winning economist
C) a Professor of Business Administration
D) a company that makes industrial products
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Women executives seem to be better than their male counterparts at _____ .
A) bureaucratic leadership
B) transactional leadership
C) transformational leadership
D) management leadership
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Aristotle _____ .
A) was very familiar with modern business ethics
B) formulated a comprehensive system of ethics
C) understood ancient Greek business and the necessity of profit
D) encouraged Italian tax policy
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Thomas Malthus was an economist best known for:
A) his unbridled optimism
B) monetary theory
C) social reform
D) his pessimism about the future
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Locke's philosophy holds that:
A) Slavery can sometimes be justified.
B) Every man has a property in his own person.
C) Scarcity has no effect on resources.
D) Utility is the highest value.
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Money came about as a _____ .
A) memorial to rulers
B) type of jewelry
C) means of exchange
D) useful commodity
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Women-run businesses tend not to _____ .
A) be medium-sized companies
B) be large companies
C) experience fast growth
D) experience fast change
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In modern American Bureaucratic companies _____ .
A) details are pushed up and credit is pushed up
B) details are pushed down and credit is pushed up
C) details are pushed down and credit is pushed down
D) details are pushed up and credit is pushed down
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp is _____ .
A) a federal insurer
B) a private insurer
C) part of the Social Security Administration
D) always able to pay 100% of insured pensions
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Robert Frank draws parallels between _____ .
A) business practices and game theory
B) socialism and evolution
C) one-shot transactions and defections
D) cooperation and equilibrium
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Ethics in a Bureaucracy most often resembles _____ .
A) a moral maze
B) a straight line
C) a ellipse
D) a jig-saw puzzle
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Lynn Sharp Paine believes businesses should foster climates that encourage _____ .
A) leniency
B) exemplary behavior
C) compliance-oriented behavior
D) patterned behavior
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