Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal Integrity & Social Responsibility 4th Edition Test ban
A. Stipulative ethics
B. Existential ethics
C. Virtue ethics
D. Social ethics
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
42. Which of the following is a way of saying that a corporation has a set of identifiable values that establish the expectations for what is normal within the firm?
A. Organizational culture
B. Organizational policy
C. Organizational code
D. Organizational structure
43. Ethics requires that the promotion of human welfare be done:
A. based on the personal opinions of the decision maker.
B. based on the level of need of the beneficiaries.
C. understanding the religious beliefs of the beneficiary.
D. in a manner that is acceptable and reasonable from all relevant points of view.
44. Dramatic examples of tyrannical regimes in history demonstrate that:
A. societies valuing freedom welcome laws that require more than the ethical minimum.
B. just societies can only be achieved through strict enforcement of ethical codes.
C. obedience to the law almost always makes people apathetic towards their ethical duties.
D. one's ethical responsibility may run counter to the law.
45. Telling organizations that their ethical responsibilities end with obedience to the law:
A. is just inviting more legal regulation.
B. is enough to maintain an ethical business environment.
C. reduces the frequency of corporate scandals.
D. eliminates ambiguity while making personal ethics-related decisions.
46. The failure of personal ethics among companies like Enron and WorldCom led to the creation of the:
A. Brooks Act.
B. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
C. Clinger-Cohen Act.
D. Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
47. Which of the following observations is true?
A. Obedience to the law is sufficient to fulfill one's ethical duties.
B. The law is very effective at promoting "goods."
C. The law cannot anticipate every new dilemma that businesses might face.
D. An individual's ethical responsibility can never run counter to the law.
48. Which of the following is a true statement about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
A. What counts as a disability remains ambiguous under the law.