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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

2. Oversight refers to?
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Fidiciary
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)

3. What is NOT legally required in management relations with labor unions?
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.

4. Command & control regulations?
Economical
Environmental equilibrium
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

5. According to teleological ethics an action's morality is determined based on its consequences?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Fidiciary

6. What describes a type of conflict of interest where a broker owns securities & spreads rumors about them to make the price go up - then sells them before the price goes back down?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Pump & dump

7. What is NOT an unethical pricing strategy?
Prevent international trade crisis
Price cancellation
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

8. What is the responsibility of the FDA?
Ensure worker safety
Hard money
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
To ensure & protect public health & safety

9. Which act makes it illegal for US citizens to participate in bribes?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
Environmental equilibrium
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

10. OSHA was created to?
Price cancellation
Through PACS
Economical
Ensure worker safety

11. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Oil spill
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

12. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
All are examples of corporate espionage
All are related to government & business interactions
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

13. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
Any company that is caught bluffing in negotiations for government contracts is immediately brought under investigation by the SEC & those involved may face criminal charges.
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

14. A conflict of interest?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
Democratic leadership style
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)

15. Implied falsity?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Patriot Act
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

16. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Pay raises
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)

17. A stable state economy is in a state of?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
Environmental equilibrium

18. Ergonomics is?
Pay raises
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Non-point source contributions

19. What is the four P's of advertising?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Universal imperative
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.

20. A grease payment can also be called?
Economical
A manager must consider which group of stakeholders is the most important to please & then work towards developing positive long term relationships with that group
Facilitating payment
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)

21. Corporate citizenship?
Self reference criterion
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions
Act utilitarianism
Sexual discrimination

22. A virus is?
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
Through PACS

23. Hiring family members would be considered which type of conflict of interest?
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Dumpster diving
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

24. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
All are correct guidelines
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices

25. Does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act include grease payments?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records

26. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
Non-renewal resources
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Education
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets

27. A manager implements new safety procedures because they feel obligated to protect the safety of their employees. Which of Kolhbergs stages does this describe?
Non-point source contributions
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Any company that is caught bluffing in negotiations for government contracts is immediately brought under investigation by the SEC & those involved may face criminal charges.

28. What statement is TRUE?
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Price cancellation
Immanuel Kant

29. What is NOT a guideline set forth by Supreme court to be used in creating affirmative action programs?
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
All are correct guidelines
All are related to government & business interactions

30. What situation would be considered moral under Kantian theory?
Pay raises
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

31. What term describes a moral theory which derives morality from actions?
Board of Directors
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
All are related to government & business interactions
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

32. What is the purpose of the WARN Act?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
All are examples of corporate espionage
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

33. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Democratic leadership style
Monopolies

34. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Discrimination

35. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
Price cancellation
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
All are concerns about outsourcing
Lawyers

36. What is NOT a benefit which can come to companies as a result of substainable business practices?
All are possible benefits
Lawyers
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

37. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
Board of Directors
Legal
Discrimination
Laws regulating consumer protection

38. The fact that in many cases a company's worth is greater than the value of its tangible assets is referred to as?
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
Non-point source contributions

39. The origins of the FDA can be traces to what ACT?
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Universal imperative
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)

40. What is NOT related to the interactions that occur between government & business?
Lawyers
All are related to government & business interactions
Pay raises
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

41. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
All are related to government & business interactions
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment

42. What is NOT true of the WTO?
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Environmental equilibrium
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets

43. An employee of a donut shop does not steal donuts because they are afraid they would get fired if they did. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
OSHA
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)

44. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Patriot Act
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

45. A lawyer knows their client is guilty but defends them anyway. This falls under which type of ethics?
Legal
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Prevent international trade crisis
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country

46. What is true about spam?
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
It is messages sent electronicaly to a large # of people - it is unsolicited - It can be send through mail - instant messaging - blogs - & other electronic methods
Non-point source contributions

47. Hard money is?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Donated to a candidates campaign
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

48. What statement is TRUE?
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Comparable worth
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate

49. What correctly describes the legality of camera surveillance methods in a workplace?
Patriot Act
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

50. What is NOT a type of imperative considered under Kantian ethics?
Universal imperative
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)