Exam 2: Ethics and Social Responsibility: Doing the Right Thing

To establish and maintain the highest level of ethical standards,the company's owner should hand down the company's ethical standards and require managers to enforce them.

The best way to handle sexual harassment is to educate the employees and thereby prevent sexual harassment.

Regarding sexual harassment,employers should realize that they:

Entrepreneurs must create an environment in which all types of workers-men,women,Hispanic,African American,white,disabled,homosexual,elderly,and others-can flourish and can give top performances to their companies.

The use of random drug testing by small businesses is on the rise.

One of the most important groups of stakeholders that a business must satisfy is its customers.

The small business owner can successfully manage diversity in his/her business by:

Companies have the responsibility to provide investors with an attractive return on their investment.

A company "Code of Ethics" refers to:

Decisions based on assumptions are bound to be flawless.

When it comes to carrying out its social responsibility,one of the most important constituencies to the small business is its employees.

Doing what is "right" as opposed to what is "wrong" is:

Stakeholders are the individuals and groups affected by a decision.

Your authors suggest a five-step process for developing an ethical framework.Identify and explain each of the five steps.

The ultimate decision on whether to abide by ethical principles in any given situation rests with:

The most effective way of diminishing moral blindness is through training.

________ is any unwelcome sexual advance,request for sexual favors,and other verbal or physical sexual conduct made explicitly or implicitly as a condition of employment.

A small business's responsibility to its customers includes the customers' right to honest communication and a right to choose among competing products.

Which one of the following is a company's stakeholder?

Businesses with less than 50 employees are not subject to ADA and therefore may deal with HIV-positive and AIDS-infected employees without fear of government action.