Exam 3: Managing Ethics and Diversity

Sam has been a manager for six months. At his performance review, his manager suggests that Sam do more to manage diversity in the disseminator role. Which of these approaches should Sam suggest to improve his effectiveness in this role?

Greg is a middle manager at an accounting firm. When one of his employees emails him a series of racist jokes, Greg tells the employee to stop. Greg also goes to human resources and encourages the staffers there to send out a general reminder that racist, sexist, or otherwise inappropriate jokes are inappropriate for the workplace. Taking quick action to correct inequalities and curtailing discriminatory behavior is the duty of a manager in a ________ role.

Which of the following are the result of differences in personalities, values, and attitudes?

Explain why customers are considered to be the most critical stakeholder group. In your opinion, is this fair? Provide reasons for your answer.

To help managers and employees make ethical decisions and behave in ways that benefit their stakeholders, they can use four ethical rules or principles to analyze the effects of their business decisions on stakeholders, the ________ rules.

Describe the four ethical rules or principles and discuss their managerial implications. Then provide an example of one of the rules or principles. Your example can be from your own experience, or it can be something that you have heard or read about.

The ethics ombudsman's authority in monitoring ethical practices and procedures applies within which of these?

Which of the following is true of women and minorities when they start work in an organization staffed mostly by white men?

Which of the following emanate from a particular community's unwritten attitudes, values, and norms that influence how people interact with each other?

Bruce is a manager seeking new employees. As he looks through applicants' resumes, he decides he wants to hire only women for these positions because he believes that women are much less trouble and will do as he tells them. But then he decides that it would be wrong to exclude people he hasn't even met based on his notions of how men and women behave. Bruce's thoughts and feelings that tell him what is right or wrong are an example of

The stakeholder group with the most responsibility for deciding the goals of the organization is the

Which of these statements accurately reflects the results of research on diversity in the workplace?

Betty works in a software firm as a programming officer. During her appraisal, Ben, the floor manager, asks for sexual favors from Betty in return for her promotion and pay raise. Which form of sexual harassment has occurred?

List and give examples of any three managerial roles that could be exercised to effectively manage diversity.

Although a slight bias toward a particular group can seem unimportant, it can lead to very large differences between groups over time.

The practical rule ensures that managers are taking into account the interests of all stakeholders.

Bernadette reports to her manager that a coworker in another group insisted that she have sex with him or he would ruin her chances of promotion. Bernadette slept with him, and now she is very upset and is having difficulty concentrating at work. Does she have a valid claim of quid pro quo sexual harassment?

Dissimilarities among people due to age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, education, experience, physical appearance, capabilities/disabilities, and any other characteristic that is used to distinguish between people defines

From a moral rights perspective, managers should compare alternative courses of action on the basis of how each will affect the rights of each stakeholder group.

If two female managers exchange a lewd sexual joke in the presence of a male manager, these female managers have exhibited