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

 
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
 
 
36. _____ establish the guidelines or standards for determining what one should do, how one should act, what type of person one should be.
 
A. Roles
 
B. Attitudes
 
C. Norms
 
D. Laws
 
Norms establish the guidelines or standards for determining what we should do, how we should act, what type of person we should be.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-04 Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related norms and values.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
 
37. Which of the following is a true statement about norms?
 
A. They are underlying beliefs that cause people to choose one way or another.
 
B. They are standards of appropriate and proper behavior.
 
C. They provide benchmarks of desirable societal conditions.
 
D. They consist of guidelines for bringing about positive behavioral change.
 
Norms are standards of appropriate and proper (or "normal") behavior. They establish the guidelines or standards for determining what we should do, how we should act, what type of person we should be.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-04 Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related norms and values.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
38. The crux of normative ethics is that these disciplines:
 
A. presuppose some underlying values.
 
B. describe what people do.
 
C. should always involve the study or discipline of ethics.
 
D. branch away from social ethics to personal ethics.
 
Normative disciplines presuppose some underlying values.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-04 Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related norms and values.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
39. Which of the following refers to an underlying belief that causes people to choose between plausible courses of action?
 
A. Norms
 
B. Paradigms
 
C. Protocols
 
D. Values
 
We can think of values as the underlying beliefs that cause us to act or to decide one way rather than another. Thus, the value that someone places on an education leads him or her to make the decision to study rather than indulge in some less productive activity.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-04 Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related norms and values.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
40. Which of the following is true about values?
 
A. Values are the highest standards of appropriate and proper behavior.
 
B. Corporate scandals prove the fact that individuals have personal values, but institutions lack values.
 
C. Values cannot lead to unethical results.
 
D. Values are underlying beliefs that cause us to act or to decide in a certain way.
 
We can think of values as the underlying beliefs that cause us to act or to decide one way rather than another.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Understand
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-04 Distinguish ethical norms and values from other business-related norms and values.
Topic: Business Ethics as Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility
 
 
41. _____ are beliefs and principles that provide the ultimate guide to a company's decision making?
 
A. Mission statements
 
B. Core values
 
C. Historical milestones
 
D. Vision statements
 
A company's core values are those beliefs and principles that provide the ultimate guide to its decision making.