Multiple choice question:
Question 1
________ responsibilities relate to a business's contributions to stakeholders.
Economic
Legal
Ethical
Voluntary
Social responsiveness
Question 2
Which of the following is not a benefit to businesses of engaging in voluntary responsibilities?
Help create an ethical culture and values that can act as a buffer to organizational misconduct
Reduce government involvement by providing assistance to stakeholders
Develop employee leadership skills
Improve employee compensation and retention
Improve the quality of life in communities
Question 3
The primary objective of U.S. antitrust laws is to
protect consumers from high prices and foreign products.
protect domestic businesses.
protect employees.
promote strategies that enhance business welfare over consumer welfare.
distinguish competitive strategies that enhance consumer welfare from those that reduce it.
Question 4
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.
penalizes the top executives in an organization for misconduct.
is basically the same as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
discourages whistle-blowers from reporting misconduct.
prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of gender.
Question 5
Which of the following acts, passed in response to public outrage over conditions described in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, was the first consumer protection legislation?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1974
Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972
Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Question 6
Which is not one of the four sources of criminal and civil laws?
Judicial law
Common law
Constitutional law
Administrative law
Statutory law
Question 7
________ tie(s) an organization's product(s) directly to a social concern through a marketing program.
Voluntary contributions
Cause-related marketing
Strategic philanthropy
Corporate giving
Employee benefits
Question 8
Cause related marketing can affect consumer ________, if consumers are sympathetic to the cause and the brand and cause are seen as a good fit.
individual ethics
tastes
perceptions
budgets
buying patterns
Question 9
Companies take basic ________ and translate them into core ________.
Customs, values
Values, principles
Cultures, principles
Cultures, customs
Principles, values
Question 10
Which of the following is not considered a significant other group in the workplace?
Peers
Managers
Spouses
Coworkers
Subordinates
Question 11
Those who have influence in a work group are referred to as significant others and include
peers, managers, coworkers, and subordinates.
family members, peers, and coworkers.
spouses and friends.
employees in similar job situations.
employees who hold the same job.
Question 12
Which of the following is not an issue that helps in business ethics evaluations and decisions?
Ethical issue intensity
Individual factors
Organizational factors
Personal guilt
Opportunity
Question 13
Which of the following is not one of the six "spheres of influence" to which individuals are subject when confronted with an ethical issue?
Educational attainment
Workplace
Family
Legal system
Community
Question 14
The ________ includes the motivational "carrots and sticks" superiors use to influence employee behavior.
Obedience to authority
Immediate job context
Locus of control
Normative approach
Descriptive approach
Question 15
Normative business ethics takes into account the ________ realities outside the legal realm in the form of industry standards.
Descriptive
Political
Social
Economic
Normative
Question 16
Following the ethical directives of a superior relates to
an internal locus of control.
obedience to authority.
moral intensity.
gender.
ethical issue intensity
Question 17
When a person defines right and wrong on the basis of legal contracts, he or she is using which of Kohlberg's stages of development?
Punishment and obedience (1st stage)
Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity (3rd stage)
Social system and conscience maintenance (4th stage)
Prior rights, social contract, or utility (5th stage)
Universal ethical principles (6th stage)
Question 18
Which moral philosophy is based on the premise that equal respect must be given to all persons?
The relativist perspective
Deontology
Egoism
Teleology
Utilitarianism
Question 19
An individual who emphasizes others rather than himself or herself in making decisions is in which of the following of Kohlberg's stages of development?
Universal ethical principles (6th stage)
Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity (3rd stage)
Social system and conscience maintenance (4th stage)
Punishment and obedience (1st stage)
Prior rights, social contract, or utility (5th stage)
Question 20
Which is the last of Kohlberg's stages of cognitive moral development?
Individual instrumental purpose and exchange
Need achievement
Social system and conscience maintenance
Punishment and obedience
Universal ethical principles
Question 21
________ justice is based on the evaluation of outcomes or results of the business relationship.
Procedural
Interactional
Distributive
Ethical
Egotistical
Question 22
________ justice considers the processes and activities that produce the outcome or results.
Disruptive
Procedural
Interactional
Communications
Evaluative
Question 23
A central problem with relativism is
that it emphasizes people's differences, not similarities.
that few people believe that these principles are important.
that they are very complicated.
that they represent unattainable goals.
that many feel that virtue ethics only works in theory.
Question 24
________ deals with the issue of what individuals feel they are due based on their rights and performance in the workplace, and therefore is more likely to be based on deontological moral philosophies than on teleological or utilitarian ones.
Rights
Virtue ethics
Justice
Relativism
Egoism
Question 25
Enlightened egoism
is when an individual puts spiritual feelings above all others.
centers completely on the short-term well-being of others.
centers on one's short-term self-interest.
centers on one's long-term self-interest but takes others' well-being into account.
centers on the long-term well-being of others
Question 1
The ________ was called "a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system...on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."
Equal Pay Act
Americans with Disabilities Act
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
VII of the Civil Rights Act
Question 2
________ law not only prohibits specific actions in business such as fraud, theft, or securities trading violations, but also imposes fines or imprisonment as punishment for breaking the law.
Civil
Criminal
Competitive
Administrative
Regulatory
Question 3
________ is the synergistic and mutually beneficial use of an organization's core competencies and resources to deal with key stakeholders so as to bring about organizational and societal benefits.
Social responsibility
Business ethics
Corporate philanthropy
Strategic philanthropy
Cause-related marketing
Question 4
The ________ of ethics involves embedding values, norms, and artifacts in organizations, industries, and society.
institutionalization
rationalization
commercialization
mobilization
enforcement
Question 5
The ________ regulates tobacco, dietary supplements, vaccines, veterinary drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, products that give off radiation, and biological products.
World Trade Organization
Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Department of Justice
Environmental Protection Agency
The Food and Drug Administration
Question 6
Which is not one of the four sources of criminal and civil laws?
Judicial law
Common law
Constitutional law
Administrative law
Statutory law
Question 7
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.
penalizes the top executives in an organization for misconduct.
is basically the same as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
discourages whistle-blowers from reporting misconduct.
prohibits pay discrimination on the basis of gender
Question 8
Companies that ________ will most likely be found in violation of procompetitive legislation.
pollute waterways
knowingly harm consumers
contract with sweatshops
establish monopolies
help consumers
Question 9
The ________can be defined as a set of values, norms, and artifacts, including ways of solving problems shared by members of an organization.
corporate culture
intentions of a corporate
ethical issue awareness
determination of a corporation
individual factors
Question 10
Which of the following is not considered a significant other group in the workplace?
Peers
Managers
Spouses
Coworkers
Subordinates
Question 11
______ have been found to decrease unethical practices and increase positive work behavior.
High educational attainment levels
High levels of community involvement
Charismatic leaders
Strong religious beliefs
Good personal values
Question 12
For people who begin the value shift that leads to unethical decisions, which of the following is not a usual justification to reduce and eliminate guilt?
I need a paycheck and can't afford to quit right now.
Those around me are doing it so why shouldn't I?
If I don't do this, I might not be able to get a good reference from my boss when I leave.
If I don't do this, I might never be promoted.
This is in keeping with my personal morals and the code of conduct, so it is okay.
Question 13
Which of the following is the first step in the ethical decision making process?
Being socialized into the firm's corporate culture
Applying a personal moral philosophy in order to individualize the ethical decision making process
Recognizing that an issue requires an individual or work group to make a choice that ultimately will be judged by stakeholders as right or wrong
Soliciting the opinions of others in a work group or in the overall business in order to gain feedback
Enforcing the firm's ethical standards with rewards and punishment
Question 14
The ________ includes the motivational "carrots and sticks" superiors use to influence employee behavior.
Obedience to authority
Immediate job context
Locus of control
Normative approach
Descriptive approach
Question 15
Employees that see themselves as going with the flow because that's all they can do have a(n)
external locus of control.
moral intensity
obedience to authority
opportunity
internal locus of control
Question 16
________ is the ability to perceive whether a situation or decision has an ethical dimension.
Ethical issue intensity
Locus of control
Ethical awareness
Moral intensity
Opportunity
Question 17
________ have lower ethical issue sensitivity, meaning they are less likely to detect ethical issues. They may be more committed to completing projects and more dedicated to group values and objectives.
Relativists
Hedonists
Pragmatists
Deontologists
Teleologists
Question 18
Enlightened egoism
is when an individual puts spiritual feelings above all others.
centers completely on the short-term well-being of others.
centers on one's short-term self-interest.
centers on one's long-term self-interest but takes others' well-being into account.
centers on the long-term well-being of others
Question 19
________ believe that no one thing is intrinsically good.
Hedonists
Pluralists
Relativists
Deontologists
Teleologists
Question 20
An individual who emphasizes others rather than himself or herself in making decisions is in which of the following of Kohlberg's stages of development?
Universal ethical principles (6th stage)
Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity (3rd stage)
Social system and conscience maintenance (4th stage)
Punishment and obedience (1st stage)
Prior rights, social contract, or utility (5th stage
Question 21
Which moral philosophy evaluates the morality of an action on the basis of its conformity to general moral principles and respect for individual rights?
The relativist perspective
Act utilitarianism
Rule utilitarianism
Act deontology
Rule deontology
Question 22
Which is the last of Kohlberg's stages of cognitive moral development?
Individual instrumental purpose and exchange
Need achievement
Social system and conscience maintenance
Punishment and obedience
Universal ethical principles
Question 23
An individual who believes that an action is ethical because others within his or her company and industry regularly engage in the activity is probably a(n)
utilitarian.
relativist.
teleologist.
deontologist.
egoist.
Question 24
________ justice considers the processes and activities that produce the outcome or results.
Disruptive
Procedural
Interactional
Communications
Evaluative
Question 25
According to Kohlberg's model, as a person progresses through the stages of moral development, and with time, education, and experience, he/she
is unlikely to change his/her values and ethical behavior.
may change his/her values and ethical behavior.
will likely be promoted.
will depend more on the input of significant others in ethical decision making.
will experience less opportunity to behave unethically.