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

 
A. Religion
 
B. Customs
 
C. Science
 
D. Norms
 
According to the tradition of theoretical reason, science is the great arbiter of truth. Thus, theoretical reason is the pursuit of truth, which is the highest standard for what we should believe.
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-07 Describe ethical decision making as a form of practical reasoning.
Topic: Ethics as Practical Reason
 
 
55. Which of the following can be thought of as the answer to the fundamental questions of theoretical reason?
 
A. The scientific method
 
B. The practical approach
 
C. The contingency approach
 
D. The normative model
 
Theoretical reason is the pursuit of truth, which is the highest standard for what we should believe. According to this tradition, science is the great arbiter of truth. Thus, the scientific method can be thought of as the answer to the fundamental questions of theoretical reason: What should we believe?
 
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
AACSB: Ethics
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 01-07 Describe ethical decision making as a form of practical reasoning.
Topic: Ethics as Practical Reason





Fill in the Blank Questions
 
56. A _____ is anyone affected, for better or for worse, by the decisions made within a particular firm.
 
Ans: stakeholder
 
In a general sense, a business stakeholder will be anyone who affects or is affected by decisions made within the firm, for better or worse.
AACSB: Ethics
Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Explain why ethics is important in the business environment.
Topic: Introduction: Making the Case for Business Ethics
 
 
57. In an organizational context, _____ is the skill of creating a circumstance in which good people are able to do good, and bad people are prevented from doing bad.
 
Ans: ethical business leadership
 
Ethical business leadership is the skill to create the circumstances within which good people are able to do good, and bad people are prevented from doing bad.
AACSB: Ethics
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
 
 
58. _____ is the aspect of ethics that is referred to by the phrase "personal integrity."
 
Ans: Morality
 
Morality is the aspect of ethics that we refer to by the phrase "personal integrity."
AACSB: Ethics
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
 
 
59. _____ ethics asks us to simply step back from implicit everyday decisions to examine and evaluate them.
 
Ans: Philosophical
 
Philosophical ethics merely asks us to step back from implicit everyday decisions to examine and evaluate them.
AACSB: Ethics
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
 
 
60. To say that ethics is a _____ discipline is to say that it deals with standards of appropriate and proper behavior.
 
Ans: normative
 
To say that ethics is a normative discipline is to say that it deals with norms: those standards of appropriate and proper (or "normal") behavior.
AACSB: Ethics
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
 
 
61. Normative disciplines presuppose some underlying _____.
 
Ans: values
 
Normative disciplines presuppose some underlying values.
AACSB: Ethics
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
 
 
62. Acts and decisions that seek to promote human welfare are based on _____.