Deck 4: Ethics and Social Responsibility: Part A

Question 1

Under the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines, companies can be prosecuted and punished for the illegal or unethical actions of employees, even if management didn't know about the unethical behavior.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is social responsibility?

A) a business's obligation to pursue policies, make decisions, and take actions that benefit society
B) a business tactic used to create relationship bonds with customers
C) what companies are obliged legally to do to protect their external environments
D) a business's responsibility to its shareholders
E) the fact businesses are responsible for monitoring their social environments so they can satisfy the needs of their customers

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is the term used to describe the degree of concern people have about an ethical issue?

A) Ethical intensity
B) Social consensus
C) Temporal immediacy
D) Magnitude of consequences
E) Ethical valence

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.

Question 5

The categories of social responsibility for a company are economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary

Question 6

According to Kohlberg's model of moral development, people at the __________ make decisions that conform to societal expectations.

A) unconventional level
B) preconventional level
C) conventional level
D) postconventional level
E) amoral level

Question 7

The stakeholder model holds that the only social responsibility that businesses have is to maximize profits.

Question 8

The __________ determined that companies can be prosecuted and punished for the illegal or unethical actions of employees, even if management didn't know about the unethical behavior.

A) U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines
B) U.S. Supreme Court
C) U.S. Department of Labor
D) U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
E) Federal Trade Commission

Question 9

Traditional college students who think about their parents' and grandparents' reactions to their decisions before putting the decision into action are more than likely operating according to which principle of ethical decision making?

A) the principle of long-term self-interest
B) the principle of utilitarian requirements
C) the principle of distributive justice
D) the principle of community injunctions
E) the principle of personal virtue

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT an example of a stakeholder group that an organization must satisfy to assure long-term survival?

A) investors
B) customers
C) the media
D) employees
E) governments

Question 11

Workplace deviance can be categorized by how deviant the behavior is and:

A) how the behavior was motivated
B) where the motivation occurred
C) the target of the deviant behavior
D) the intent of the violator
E) organizational norms