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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. A person helps an old lady across the street because they think that it is the right thing to do - & makes them feel useful & happy. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)

2. In what situation would an NDA NOT be used?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

3. What is NOT an ex. of social engineering?
Dumpster diving
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
A strong focus on developing core values
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

4. The Alien Tort Claims Act?
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)

5. What type of responsibility is the LEAST regulated?
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Pay raises
Philanthropic
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)

6. What statement BEST describes attitudes toward outsourcing?
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Legal

7. What is NOT a conflict of interest?
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
All are conflicts of interest

8. What agency does not relate in some manner to international trade?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

9. Ethical & philanthropic responsibilities are important in building?
Reputation
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Prevent international trade crisis
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

10. According to teleological ethics an action's morality is determined based on its consequences?
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Sexual discrimination
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)

11. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
Education
A strong focus on developing core values
To ensure & protect public health & safety
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)

12. Business ethics is?
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
All would be addressed in an NDA
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions

13. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Act utilitarianism
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)

14. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Education
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

15. 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?
Pump & dump
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities

16. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Misstating financial statements

17. Utilitarianism is a type of?
All are ways businesses are regulated
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

18. What is NOT related to the interactions that occur between government & business?
Ensure worker safety
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
All are related to government & business interactions

19. What does EEOC stand for?
Board of Directors
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
All are ways businesses are regulated

20. OSHA was created to?
Ensure worker safety
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
All are stakeholders
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

21. Cost benefit considerations would be most typical of what type of ethics?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

22. A virus is?
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
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
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

23. Does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act include grease payments?
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
All are concerns about outsourcing
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

24. Corporate citizenship?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

25. What is true about spam?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Pay raises
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

26. What does NOT focus on increasing the ethical awareness of employees & strengthening the ethical culture of a workplace?
Sexual harassment
Lawyers
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Democratic leadership style

27. A software designer knows there are some minor problems with the software they are develoing. However - if they wait to declare the product finished - it will not be released before another similar products - which would be highly damaging to its suc
Sexual harassment
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished

28. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Board of Directors
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)

29. If a person were to sue a co. for not fulfilling a contractual obligation it would be?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Act utilitarianism

30. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Fidiciary
All are correct guidelines
Sexual harassment

31. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Monopolies
All are ways businesses are regulated
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

32. A stable state economy is in a state of?
Price cancellation
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
Environmental equilibrium
Conflict diamonds

33. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
All are stakeholders
Discrimination
Sexual discrimination
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s

34. What is NOT a benefit which can come to companies as a result of substainable business practices?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
All are possible benefits
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time

35. What statement is TRUE?
Economical
Environmental equilibrium
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.

36. What is more typical of a values oriented ethical program that a compliance oriented ethics program?
A strong focus on developing core values
The act did all
Sexual harassment
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society

37. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
OSHA
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations

38. What is the four P's of advertising?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Environmental equilibrium

39. What type of information is complied to answer a specific question?
Ad hoc (means for this)
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
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
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country

40. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
All are conflicts of interest
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Discrimination

41. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Act utilitarianism
Non-renewal resources
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)

42. Who has legal responsibility for a company's actions in a corporation?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Board of Directors
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

43. What moral theory is NOT consequentialist?
All are conflicts of interest
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

44. What is the responsibility of the FDA?
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices

45. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
All are stakeholders
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate

46. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Universal imperative
Pump & dump
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
All are ways businesses are regulated

47. The president of the co must decide whethere to continue to sell textbooks that he knows have incorrect information in them or not. Considered from standpoint of Kantian ethics the president would most likely?
Sexual harassment
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional

48. What is a standard that aides companies in improving their environmental practices?
Immanuel Kant
Discrimination
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

49. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
All are examples of corporate espionage
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Self reference criterion
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

50. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Legal

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