Deck 15: Ethics at Work

Question 1

Management's inappropriate beliefs have caused disasters and exploitation of workers.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following are organizational stakeholders?

A)Competitors
B)Employees
C)Politicians
D)Shareholders

Answer 2

B AND D

Question 3

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) promotes the idea that organizations have responsibilities to the public, customers, the environment and other stakeholders.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Utilitarianism understands the ethical value of an act to be based on its consequences.

Question 5

'Good business ethics' is always synonymous with 'good business'.

Question 6

Which of the following are possible in situations where organizational members are subordinate to the authority of another?

A)Disobedience
B)Conflict
C)Inhumanity
D)Loss of ethical responsibility

Question 7

Which of the following is a feature of 'whistle blowing'?

A)Disclosure by an organizational member of unethical practices
B)Anonymous quality suggestions
C)Disclosure by an organizational member of illegal practices
D)Internal memoranda

Question 8

We should always question any organizational members' subordination to another authority as there is potential for loss or abdication of ethical responsibility

Question 9

Redundancies and poor working conditions apparently do not affect a corporation's ability to brand itself as 'ethical'.

Question 10

Critical approaches just give you more 'theories' to think about and learn.

Question 11

Which of the following is a feature of the deregulation of markets?

A)Greater competition
B)Reduction in regulations
C)Improved ethics
D)Improved Corporate Social Responsibility

Question 12

Which of the following are unethical actions by multi-national corporations?

A)Bonus schemes
B)Coercion
C)Acceptance of unsafe working conditions
D)Profits

Question 13

Which of the following are features of Corporate Social Responsibility?

A)Making well-publicized donations to 'good causes'
B)Higher employee motivation
C)Developing and publicizing ethical statements
D)Higher profits

Question 14

Business ethics is the academic study and promotion of ethical practice in business.

Question 15

Which of the following are assumptions of ethical businesses?

A)Managerial authority is good
B)Ethics and profits are compatible
C)Stakeholder know best
D)Managers generally act ethically

Question 16

Management practices are not necessarily those that lead to the most ethical outcome.

Question 17

Marxist's view employee resistance to management control as unethical.

Question 18

Business ethics commonly incorporates which of the following?

A)An endorsement of the self-regulation of industry
B)A belief in the compatibility of profits and ethics
C)An admission of the scope for ethical improvement
D)A rejection of the need for efficiency

Question 19

Which of the following are 'macro-problems' of business ethics?

A)Conscience
B)Translation
C)Relevance
D)Unintended consequences

Question 20

Which of the following according to Milton Friedman, is the only social responsibility of business?

A)To support local communities
B)To improve the standard of living of employees
C)To be fair to employees
D)To increase profits