Deck 3: Communication Ethics

Question 1

What is the difference between moral norms and moral principles?

Answer 1

Answers will vary.

Question 2

Why is it important for an organization's top officials to demonstrate ethical leadership?

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Business ethics deals exclusively with the relationships between business organizations and their external constituencies.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Explain the "Front Page" test.

Question 5

Most business ethicists suggest the use of a decision-making process that includes these three viewpoints:

A) Economic, Moral, and Political
B) Environmental, Moral, and Social
C) Economic, Political and Social
D) Economic, Legal, and Moral
E) Environmental, Legal, and Social

Question 6

Publishing a formal ethics statement will ensure the ethical behavior of all corporate employees.

Question 7

Once an ethics statement is written, it should never be revised.

Question 8

According to the table, "Four Resources for Decision Making," which of the following resources is action-oriented?

A) Observations
B) Assumptions
C) Value Judgments
D) Descriptions
E) None of the above

Question 9

The discipline in which matters of right and wrong are systematically examined is known as:

A) Morality
B) Ethics
C) Intuition
D) A and B
E) B and C