Exam 2: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Leaders should do all of the following to promote ethical policies in their organizations except:

Procter & Gamble uses a measure of worker safety called "total misconduct rate per employee."

The rights identified by the consumer bill of rights include all of the following except _____.

Five months after the fraud at WorldCom was exposed, new CEO Michael Cappellas delivered a pep talk on the company's future while the senior management team led the audience in a rousing rendition of what song

Betty Vinson believed that her superiors at WorldCom would take full responsibility for the accounting fraud in which she participated.

The federal government has set a minimum wage.

If you work for a company that expects you to deceive customers about the quality of your product, you should:

Martin Marietta serves as a good example of the principle of _____.

Because it occurs naturally, deforestation through burning is not a major source of air pollution.

Investigators determined that the 1982 tampering with Tylenol bottles occurred in the factory in which the capsules were manufactured.

Most of the contaminants in our oceans, rivers, and lakes come from _____.

When companies find that responding to public needs gives them a competitive edge and enhances long-term success, they have moved to which stage of corporate responsibility

Explain corporate social responsibility.

Which of the following criteria are not helpful in distinguishing a bribe from a gift

Which of the following statements about business ethics is false

Although Cynthia Cooper did the right thing in exposing fraud at WorldCom, many coworkers _____ her.

According to one whistle-blower, whistle-blowers are usually treated like_____ by some coworkers.

Executives at Johns Manville tried to suppress evidence that;

Managers have a(n) _____ responsibility to owners to safeguard a company's assets and handle its funds in a trustworthy manner.

Bonita and Samuel are concerned about some workplace activities on the part of four coworkers. One employee, for example, makes frequent personal long distance phone calls, and all four take home office supplies that they don’t replace. Because management hasn’t stopped them (and even seems to be turning a blind eye), other employees are beginning to think that such activities are quite acceptable. -The activities of the four employees are unethical because they're illegal.