Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility 4th Edition Test ban

Social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, examine human decision making and actions; but, unlike ethics, these sciences are descriptive rather than normative. When we say that they are descriptive, we refer to the fact that they provide an account of how and why people do act the way they do—they describe.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
31. Individual codes of conduct based on one's value structures regarding how one should live, how one should act, what one should do, and what kind of a person should one be is sometimes referred to as _____.
 
A. morality
 
B. independence
 
C. leadership
 
D. rationality
 
How should we live? This fundamental question of ethics can be interpreted in two ways. "We" can mean each one of us individually, or it might mean all of us collectively. In the first sense, this is a question about how I should live my life, how I should act, what I should do, and what kind of person I should be. This meaning of ethics is based on our value structures, defined by our moral systems; and, therefore, it is sometimes referred to as morality.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
32. Morality is the aspect of ethics that we can refer to by the phrase "_____."
 
A. personal freedom
 
B. individual rationality
 
C. personal integrity
 
D. persuasive rationality
 
Morality is the aspect of ethics that we refer to by the phrase "personal integrity."
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
33. Ethics refers to the applications of _____ on which people's decisions are based.
 
A. values
 
B. morals
 
C. etiquettes
 
D. norms
 
There will be many times within a business setting where an individual will need to step back and ask: What should I do? How should I act? If morals refer to the underlying values on which our decisions are based, ethics refers to the applications of those morals to the decisions themselves. So, an individual could have a moral value of honesty, which, when applied to her or his decisions, results in a refusal to lie on an expense report.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
34. Identify the area of ethics that raises questions about justice, law, civic virtues, and political philosophy.
 
A. Stipulative ethics
 
B. Existential ethics
 
C. Virtue ethics
 
D. Social ethics
 
Social ethics raises questions of justice, public policy, law, civic virtues, organizational structure, and political philosophy. It delves into questions on how a society and social institutions, such as corporations, ought to be structured and about how we ought to live together.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-03 Distinguish the ethics of personal integrity from the ethics of social responsibility.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
35. 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. organizational ethical responsibility.
 
D. institutional morality.
 
Business ethics is concerned with how business institutions ought to be structured, about whether they have a responsibility to the greater society (corporate social responsibility or CSR), and about making decisions that will impact many people other than the individual decision maker. This aspect of business ethics asks people to examine business institutions from a social rather than from an individual perspective. This broader social aspect of ethics is referred to as decision making for social responsibility.