Identify the approach that allows the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) to make tradeoffs between health and economics.
a. Sustainability approach
b. Integrative approach
c. Market controlled approach
d. Feasibility approach
A professional is said to have _____ if he has a professional and ethical obligation to
clients rooted in trust that overrides his personal interests.
a. statutory duties
b. executive rights
c. creditor claims
d. fiduciary duties
The tension that prevails when an organization tries to meet both social and economic
responsibilities is generally overcome by:
a. utilizing a small percentage of profit on social causes.
b. doing charitable work to build a good reputation within the community.
c. pursuing social ends as the very core of an organization’s mission.
d. emphasizing the importance of achieving the desired economic goals.
Identify the correct statement about ‘bullying.’
a. The mistreatment of an employee needs to be physically threatening to be termed as
bullying.
b. Bullying does not involve a boss who is constantly yelling dictates at workers
because that is his job.
c. When a coworker spreads rumors about another in order to sabotage his position, he
is not regarded as bullying as he is not higher than the other employee in the hierarchy
of authority.
d. Bullying can lead to a complete loss of personal dignity, intimidation, and fear.
When a firm engages in socially responsible activities with a prime focus on reputation:
a. social responsibility tend to become a form of social marketing.
b. the measure of positive reputation gained is impossible to calculate.
c. profits have to be sacrificed for social causes.
d. it always loses employee loyalty.
Two general and connected understandings of privacy have been identified: privacy as a
right to be ‘˜left alone’ within a personal zone of solitude, and privacy as the:
a. right to understand one’s emotions.
b. right to understand others’ emotions.
c. right to control information about others.
d. right to control information about oneself.
Which of the following is a value that will impact the culture of an organization in the
absence of any other established values?
a. Profit’”at any cost
b. Ethical behavior
c. Legal compliance
d. Customer satisfaction
Ethics seeks an account of how and why people should act a certain way, rather than
how they do act. This nature of ethics makes it a(n) _____ discipline.
a. descriptive
b. supererogatory
c. normative
d. stipulative
What is the role of an ethical leader in corporate cultures?
a. A leader should be ethical within the confines of the top management team.
b. An ethical leader must shrink his or her duties in the corporate structure.
c. An ethical leader should not place her or his own ethical behavior above any other
consideration.
d. A leader must clearly advocate and model ethical behavior.
Sustainability holds that:
a. a firm’s financial goals must be balanced against environmental considerations.
b. a firm must place social considerations below tasks beneficial to its growth.
c. a firm must not prioritize social goals at the expense of economic growth.
d. a firm’s sustenance is affected by overemphasis on environmental considerations.
Discussions in ethics about employee health and safety tend to focus on the relative
risks workers face and the level of acceptable workplace risk because:
a. workers’ compensation is easier to calculate.
b. employers cannot be responsible for providing an ideally safe and healthy workplace.
c. insurance laws mandate the focus on relative risks and acceptability of workplace
risk.
d. it results in a completely safe and healthy workplace.
Marketing experts consider stealth marketing extraordinarily effective because:
a. a consumer does not question the message as she might challenge a traditional
advertising campaign.
b. the consumer’s guard is not down while accepting the message.
c. consumers do not see the communication as too personal and often tend to trust an
advertisement or other marketing material much more than they would trust the
communicator.
d. consumers seek out the communicator’s vested interest.
Utilitarianism has been called a(n):
a. commonsensical approach to ethics.
b. behavioral approach to ethics.
c. consequentialist approach to ethics.
d. intuitive approach to ethics.
_____ reasoning is reasoning about what we should do.
a. Practical
b. Descriptive
c. Theoretical
d. Notional
_____ of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act addresses the disclosure of audit committee financial
expert.
a. Section 404
b. Section 301
c. Section 407
d. Section 307
The _____ ethical tradition would take the two parties’ agreement as evidence that both
are better off than they were prior to the exchange and thus conclude that overall
happiness has been increased by any exchange freely entered into.
a. utilitarian
b. virtual
c. Kantian
d. deontological
Utilitarianism’s fundamental insight is that we should decide what to do by:
a. considering the moral character of individuals.
b. following the rules, regardless of consequences.
c. acting only out of a self-interest.
d. considering the consequences of our actions.
Which of the following is a problem associated with the regulatory approach to
environmental challenges?
a. The regulatory model assumes that economic growth is environmentally and ethically
benign.
b. If people rely on the law to protect the environment, environmental protection will
extend beyond the law.
c. Business passively responds to consumer desires and consumers are unaffected by
the messages that business conveys.
c. National regulations are the only means to effectively address international
environmental challenges.
The _____ version of CSR suggests that the long-term financial well-being of every
firm is directly tied to questions of how the firm both affects and is affected by the
natural environment.
The legal doctrine of _____ is ethically controversial because it holds a business
accountable for paying damages whether or not it was at fault.
A _____ culture will empower legal and audits offices to mandate and to monitor
compliance with the law and with internal codes.
Philosophers distinguish between three different types of responsibilities, on a scale
from more to less demanding or binding. Explain these responsibilities.
What are the general principles that will guide the movement of businesses toward
sustainability?
_____ rights protect individuals from being treated in ways that would violate their
dignity and that would treat them as mere objects or means.