Exam 1: An Overview of Ethics

Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee's performance appraisal.

Lawrence Kohlberg found that the most crucial factor that stimulates a person's moral development is monetary reward for good behavior.

In the decision-making process of implementing the decision, what plan must be defined to explain to people how they will move from the old way of doing things to the new way?

A mission statement is a clear, concise description of the issue that needs to be addressed.

The countries with the highest software piracy rate in the world include Luxembourg, Japan, and New Zealand.

Stakeholders who stand to lose or gain from a situation should be kept out of the decision making process as they will simply introduce their personal biases.

Consistency means that shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the community know what they can expect of an organization-that it will behave in the future much as it has in the past.

A set of beliefs about right and wrong behavior within a society is known as which of the following?

Multinational and global organizations must not present a consistent face to their shareholders, customers, and suppliers but instead must operate with a different value system in each country they do business in.

A discrepancy between employee's own values and an organization's actions:

Setting corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals encourages an organization to achieve higher moral and ethical standards.

Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.

Which of the following identifies the concept that an organization should act ethically by taking accountability for the impact of its actions on the environment, the community, and the welfare of its employees?

If the desired results are not achieved upon implementation of a solution, one should return to the "identify alternatives" step of the decision making process and rework the decision.

The board of directors of an organization is normally responsible for day-to-day management and operations of the organization.

Standards or codes of behavior expected of an individual by a group (nation, organization, profession) to which an individual belongs is known as which of the following?

In an environment where employees are encouraged to do "whatever it takes" to get the job done, employees may feel pressure to act in which of the following ways?

What term is used to describe a habit of unacceptable behavior?

The piracy rate is nearly 80 percent across which continent?

A statement that highlights an organization's key ethical issues and identifies the overarching values and principles that are important to the organization and its decision making is known as which of the following?