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6) 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
7) “Wage labor” denotes ___________.
A) the self-employed
B) working for someone else in exchange for money
C) small farmers
D) sweatshop labor
8) NLRB stands for:
A) National Labor Relations Board
B) National Labor Review Board
C) North American Law Review Board
D) National Law Review Board
9) The U.S. small business sector __________.
A) creates 95% of new jobs in the U.S.
B) creates a lower proportion of jobs than European small businesses
C) creates a higher proportion of jobs than European small businesses
D) creates the same proportion of jobs as European small businesses
10) 10) Richard Branson of the Virgin group of companies believes in putting _________.
A) shareholders first
B) executives first
C) customers first
D) people first
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True/False Quiz for Chapter 9.
Indicate whether each of the following is True or False:
1) There is a connection between how firms manage people and profits they achieve.
2) High standards of service depend on having staff who are proud of the company.
3) Productivity is a management practice.
4) Lifetime job security is never guaranteed.
5) Bankruptcy can lead to the voiding of union contacts.
6) Federal rules allow for no gaps in funding defined-benefit pension plans.
7) Fewer than 20% of private sector workers are covered by traditional pension plans.
8) Wal-Mart workers usually live in cheap motels.
9) Wal-Mart refers to its workers as Wal-Martians.
10) More worker are unionized today than during the 1950s.
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Multiple Choice Quiz for Chapter 10
1) According to Judy B. Rosener, women and men executives are vastly dissimilar in
_________.
A) earnings
B) frequency of work-family conflict
C) leadership style
D) all of the above
2) Women executives seem to be better than their male counterparts at __________.
A) bureaucratic leadership
B) transactional leadership
C) transformational leadership
D) management leadership
3) Interactive leadership does not include ____________.
A) encouraging participation
B) sharing information
C) letting subordinates make all decisions
D) enhancing the self-worth of others
4) Women-run businesses tend not to ____________.
A) be medium-sized companies
B) be large companies
C) experience fast growth
D) experience fast change
5) 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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6) Oppression is often ___________.
A) deliberately practiced in the workplace
B) easy to overcome
C) deliberately taught to the next generation
D) embedded in the view of society
7) Women executives’ families ____________.
A) often go without dinner
B) do not eat waffles as often as other families
C) often have much higher household incomes than those of male executives
D) have to do their own laundry
8) White privilege is ____________.
A) a myth
B) always noticed
C) generally reflected in American society
D) well understood by all white people
9) 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
10) 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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True/False Quiz for Chapter 10. Indicate whether each of the following is True or False:
1) All foreign countries have gender role consistent with U.S. law.
2) Latin America tends to recognize the equality of men and women more than European
society.
3) Current female executives usually strictly adhere to the so-called “rules of conduct” that
spelled success for men.
4) Male bosses tend to encourage participation more than female bosses.
5) Participation increases support for decisions.
6) Soliciting input from other people suggests a flow of information from employees to the
“boss.”
7) One of the by-products of sharing information and encouraging participation is that
employees feel important.
8) White privilege and male privilege both can be found in the workplace.
9) Peggy McIntosh believes whites are carefully taught to recognize white privilege.
10) White privilege allows white people to worry about racism (if they are so inclined) without
being seen as self-interested.
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Multiple Choice Quiz for Chapter 11.
1) Nambu and Chikorpan are __________.
A) fictional countries
B) Asian nations where Motorola does business
C) countries whose culture differs from our own
D) African nations where Motorola does business
2) Striking a subordinate merely to get him or her to comply with company policy _________.
A) may be proper depending on the country you are in
B) is proper if it is a woman doing the hitting
C) is proper if it is a man being struck
D) should never be tolerated
3) Some societies allow infanticide. This is an example of ___________.
A) culture relativism
B) stupidity
C) lawlessness
D) abortion
4) “Right and wrong are only matters of cultural opinion,” is perhaps the strongest statement of
the theory known as ____________.
A) ethical extremism
B) moral abhorrence
C) moral absolutism
D) cultural relativism
5) Under the Integrative Social Contracts Theory, ___________.
A) economic factors are all that matter
B) contracts for illegal acts are also valid
C) all contracts must respect human individualism
D) repressive labor practices, if agreed to, become valid
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6) 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
7) The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights __________.
A) enumerates less rights than the U.S. Bill of Rights
B) is copied directly from the U.S. Bill of Rights
C) enumerates more rights than the U.S. Bill of Rights
D) none of these
A) the strong western intrusions upon their culture
B) their harsh living conditions
C) the ease of living off the land
D) common values with all Asian societies
9) The macrosocial contract does not include the idea that __________.
A) local economic communities may generate ethical norms
B) microsocial contracts must be grounded in consent
C) rules are necessary to resolve conflict
D) lack of profit invalidates the macrosocial contract
10) “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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True/False Quiz for Chapter 11. Tell whether each of the following is True or False.
1) It is possible to vacation in Nambu.
2) Ancient Greeks practiced the same morality as ancient Callatians.
3) Eskimos practice “marriage” in a different form than is typical of Western society.
4) Cultural relativism is itself absolute.
5) Some people believe that tradition is its own warrant.
6) We can always determine whether actions are right or wrong by measuring them against the
standards of our own society.
7) Many factors work together to produce the customs of a society.
8) There are some cultures that never care for infants.
9) The Integrative Social Contracts Theory explains how contracts can be interpreted across
cultural difference and still remain binding.
10) The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is legally binding on all people.
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Multiple Choice Quiz for Chapter 12.
1) Business ethics is a type of __________.
A) applied ethics
B) relative ethics
C) false ethics
D) incomplete ethics
2) Moral relativism exists __________.
A) only in business ethics
B) in most, if not all, Ethical fields
C) in ancient Persia but not in modern times
D) in the Theory of the Forms
3) Government regulation of free enterprise should not ___________.
A) protect the public interest
B) promote health and safety
C) encourage monopoly pricing
D) keep competition fair
3) Modern day Russia presents perhaps a unique example of ____________.
A) a long tradition of business ethics
B) business ethics under monarchy, dictatorship, and Democracy
C) the interplay between Eastern and Western business ethics
D) business with little or no existing background institutions
5) Host country and home country often have ___________.
A) no ethical difference
B) no legal differences
C) different laws governing business activities
D) an acknowledgment that “legal” equals “ethical”
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6. Host country and home country often have __________.
A) no ethical difference
B) different ethical standards
C) committees to decide what is mutually ethical
D) clearly similar understandings of the same cultural events
7. A U.S. manager in Saudi Arabia asking Saudi training participants about a hypothetical case
in which a manager makes sexually explicit remarks to a new employee of the same gender
in a bar is likely to face:
A) Shock
B) Silence
C) A lack of understanding about what a “bar” is
D) All of the above
8. Ethical imperialism holds that ethical standards should be __________.
A) absolute
B) amorphous
C) relative
D) non-existent
9. Which should not guide companies in shaping ethical behaviors?
A) The desire to discipline employees
B) Respect for local traditions
C) The belief that context matters
D) Respect for core human values
10) Ethical business leaders __________.
A) A) seek to engage suppliers and customers as well as employees
B) allow for foreign interpretation
C) exercise moral imagination
D) all of the above