The conservation movement advocated a more restrained and prudent approach to the
natural world.
Volunteering and charitable work are examples of the most demanding responsibility.
According to David Vogel, investing in CSR when consumers are not willing to pay
higher prices to support that investment improves the profit levels of the firm.
‘Sweatshops’ lack even the most basic health and safety protections.
Utilitarianism has been called a consequentialist approach to ethics and social policy.
The most basic ethical issue facing professional gatekeepers and intermediaries in
business contexts involves conflicts of interest.
Risk assessment provides assessment capabilities to uncover vulnerabilities of a firm.
Philosopher Norman Bowie identifies his approach as a ‘Kantian’ theory of business
ethics.
The European Union’s Directive on Personal Data Protection does not in any way
prohibit E.U. firms from transferring personal information to a non-E.U. country.
Consequences or justifications are the only means for comparing alternatives.
The ‘invasion of privacy’ claim developed through case law called intrusion into
seclusion.
On the sole basis that someone wants to buy something and someone else is willing to
sell it, a transaction is ethically legitimate.
Rewards and compensation structures have no impact on the emotions of workers.
Risk assessment and ongoing monitoring are elements that comprise the control
structure of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Technically speaking, values are not necessarily positive or ethical in nature.
The condition where lesser consumption leads to unhappiness is termed ‘affluenza’.
Most courts allow a business to completely disclaim the implied warranty of
merchantability.
Standards like Corporate Automotive Fuel Efficiency that address pollution and
pollution-related disease are considered essentially because of our reliance on market
solutions to sustain the environment.
Which of the following is true of health and safety at the workplace?
a. Health and safety have instrumental value and intrinsic value.
b. Employers are responsible to provide a completely safe and healthy workplace.
c. Financial compensation can replace the value of life lost due to lack of health and
safety measures.
d. Employers do not have the right to fire employees on grounds of health and safety.
In the ethical decision-making process, identify the step that involves predicting the
likely, foreseeable, and the possible consequences to all the relevant stakeholders.
a. Comparing and weighing the alternatives
b. Making the decision
c. Identifying the ethical issues
d. Monitoring and learning from the outcomes
Which of the following approaches to health and safety at the workplace can be
considered paternalistic decision making which treats employees like children and
makes crucial decisions for them?
a. Government-regulated ethics approach
b. Diversifiable risk approach
c. Acceptable level of risk approach
d. Market controlled approach
With regard to health and safety at workplace, _____ can be determined by comparing
the probabilities of harm involved in various activities.
a. variable obstacles
b. absolute impediments
c. relative risks
d. comparative barriers
Which of the following acts grants access to sensitive data with only a court order
rather than a judicial warrant and imposes or enhances civil and criminal penalties for
knowingly or intentionally aiding terrorists?
a. The Federal Information Security Management Act
b. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
c. The USA PATRIOT Act
d. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
Which of the following focuses on the concept of business practices and what type of
people these practices are creating?
a. Virtue ethics
b. Kantian ethics
c. Utilitarian ethics
d. Principle-based ethics
Which of the following statements is true about whistleblowing?
a. It involves the disclosure of ethical activities.
b. It may seem disloyal, but it does not harm the business.
c. It can occur both internally and externally.
d. It does not cause any harm to the whistleblower.
Which of the following ethical requirements is the type of responsibility established by
the precedents of tort law?
a. Duty to not cause avoidable harm to the society
b. Duty to find employment for employees injured at work
c. Duty to engage in charitable work
d. Duty to volunteer for causes related to the environment
Which of the following was suggested by William Baxter?
a. An optimal level of pollution can be achieved through competitive markets.
b. Society can strive for pure air and water at a very low cost.
c. From a strict market economic perspective, resources are infinite.
d. All resources can be replaced by substitutes.
The Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against an unreasonable search and
seizure governs only the public sector workplace because:
a. unions exist only in public sector organizations.
b. the private sector does not cater to appeals of unreasonable search or seizure.
c. the Constitution applies only to state action.
d. only public sector organizations deal with classified information.
The conservation movement:
a. regarded natural resources as being able to provide an inexhaustible supply of
material.
b. advocated that the natural world should not be used as a capital resource.
c. argued that the natural world was valued as a resource, providing humans with both
direct benefits and indirect benefits.
d. believed that business does not good reasons for conserving natural resources.
Which of the following problems are associated with the market controlled approach to
health and safety?
a. Employees do not know the risks involved in a job and therefore are not in a position
to freely bargain for appropriate wages.
b. It ignores the fundamental deontological right an employee might have to a safe and
healthy working environment.
c. It assumes an equivalency between workplace risks and other types of risks when
there are significant differences between them.
d. It treats employees disrespectfully by ignoring their input as stakeholders.
General vulnerability occurs when:
a. a person has an impaired ability to make an informed consent to the market
exchange.
b. a person is susceptible to some specific physical, psychological, or financial harm.
c. children are shown commercials in and around schools.
d. people are susceptible to the harm of not satisfying their consumer desires and/or
losing their money.
Which of the following is emphasized by a compliance-based culture?
a. Reliance on personal integrity of employees for decision making
b. Use of values as the principle for decision making
c. Obedience to rules as the primary responsibility of ethics
d. Reinforcement of a set of values rather than a set of rules
Norms:
a. are the underlying beliefs that cause people to act or to decide one way rather than
another.
b. are standards of appropriate and proper behavior.
c. are referred to by the phrase ‘personal integrity.’
d. do not presuppose any underlying values.
The legal doctrine of strict liability is ethically controversial because:
a. it assumes informed consent of the buyer and therefore it is assumed to be ethically
legitimate.
b. it allows consumers to assume that products are safe for use.
c. it holds that consumer demand depends upon what producers sell.
d. it holds a business accountable for paying damages whether or not it was at fault.
Which of the following prohibits the ‘interception’ or unauthorized access of stored
communications?
a. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
b. The Computer Security Act of 1987
c. The Privacy Act of 1974
d. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986
Describe HIPAA. Discuss the use of genetic information as a form of monitoring.
The aspect of business ethics that examines business institutions from a social rather
than an individual perspective is referred to as:
a. decision making for social responsibility.
b. corporate cultural responsibility.
c. institutionalized ethical responsibility.
d. institutional morality.
Which of the following suggests that a business takes resources, makes products out of
them, and discards whatever is left over?
a. The cradle-to-grave model
b. The take-make-waste approach
c. The Cradle-to-cradle model
d. The eco-efficiency principle
An employer can resolve the concerns related to the ‘Hawthorne Effect’ through:
a. notified, random monitoring.
b. consented, selective monitoring.
c. selective, notified monitoring.
d. random, anonymous monitoring.
The _____ value of the life is something that financial compensation cannot replace.
a. absolute
b. instrumental
c. intrinsic
d. extrinsic
‘_____’ include all of the groups and/or individuals affected by a decision, policy, or
operation of a firm or individual.
a. Stakeholders
b. Shareholders
c. Employees
d. Owners
Which of the following is true of philanthropy in accordance with the economic model
of corporate social responsibility?
a) Philanthropy done for reputational reasons is not fully ethical.
b) Philanthropy done for solely financial benefits is not truly an act of social
responsibility.
c) Philanthropy done for financial reasons is ethically responsible.
d) Philanthropy is considered as a social contribution rather than an investment.
All of the following are ways through which affirmative action can arise at the
workplace except:
a. through legal requirements.
b. through judicial affirmative action.
c. consultant based affirmative action.
d. voluntary affirmative action plans.
What is an optimal level of pollution?
Explain the concept of reputation management and discuss the controversies associated
with publicizing corporate good deeds.
_____ differences surrounding how individuals experience and understand situations
can explain many ethical disagreements.
Explain the utilitarian perspective of manipulation.
To say that ethics is a _____ discipline is to say that it deals with standards of
appropriate and proper behavior.
Selecting the alternative that meets minimum decision criteria is known as _____.