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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. OSHA was created to?
Ensure worker safety
Facilitating payment
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser

2. What statement is FALSE?
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
Dumpster diving
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

3. The Dukes vs. Walmart case involves which issue?
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.
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Sexual discrimination
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

4. Arable land is used for?
A strong focus on developing core values
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Non-renewal resources
Environmental equilibrium

5. What is NOT an ex. of social engineering?
Self reference criterion
Non-point source contributions
60 days
Dumpster diving

6. What of the following is TRUE?
Laws regulating consumer protection
Fidiciary
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

7. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Conflict diamonds
All are correct guidelines
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

8. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Immanuel Kant
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Lawyers
Misstating financial statements

9. What is NOT an unethical pricing strategy?
Patriot Act
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Price cancellation

10. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Fidiciary
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Price cancellation
Environmental equilibrium

11. What is NOT concern relative to outsourcing?
All are concerns about outsourcing
All are possible benefits
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
All are related to government & business interactions

12. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Non-point source contributions
Sarbanes-Oxley Act

13. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
All are stakeholders
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Lawyers
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.

14. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Act utilitarianism
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

15. What is the purpose of the WARN Act?
Act utilitarianism
Sexual discrimination
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)

16. What type of responsibility is the LEAST regulated?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Philanthropic

17. An ombudsman is?
Ensure worker safety
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Civil Rights Act of 1964

18. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
A strong focus on developing core values
Prevent international trade crisis
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

19. Protections for workers from workplace hazard are regulated & mandated by what agency?
OSHA
Oil spill
The act did all
All are conflicts of interest

20. What is NOT a reason clinton's attempt at healthcare reform in the early 1990s failed?
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Democratic leadership style
Reputation
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

21. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Laws regulating consumer protection

22. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Laws regulating consumer protection
Conflict diamonds
All would be addressed in an NDA
Discrimination

23. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

24. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Sexual discrimination
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

25. What is NOT a right outlined in the Privacy Act of 1974?
Legal
Universal imperative
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
All are ways businesses are regulated

26. The Fair Labor Standards Act?
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Environmental equilibrium
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

27. What is true about spam?
Price cancellation
All are conflicts of interest
Misstating financial statements
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

28. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Lawyers
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Monopolies
Oil spill

29. A grease payment can also be called?
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Facilitating payment
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

30. Corporate citizenship?
Philanthropic
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
All are stakeholders

31. What moral theory considers the action resulting in the greatest benefit to all people as the most moral action?
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)

32. The perceived 'us' vs. 'them' mentality that emerges when doing business with different cultures is referred to?
OSHA
Self reference criterion
Price cancellation
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser

33. Hard money is?
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Donated to a candidates campaign
All are possible benefits
Conflict diamonds

34. Cost benefit considerations would be most typical of what type of ethics?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
All are possible benefits
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Self reference criterion

35. If a person were to sue a co. for not fulfilling a contractual obligation it would be?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

36. If a resource is used at the same rate at which it can be replenished it is describes as?
Environmental equilibrium
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

37. What is NOT true of NAFTA?
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

38. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
Conflict diamonds
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
To lower greenhouse gas emissions

39. A person is given the opportunity to volunteer at local food bank. They consider the other things they could do with that time. Decide to do volunteer work. What type of ethical theory does their thought process & decision follow?
Education
Act utilitarianism
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s
Environmental equilibrium

40. 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?
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
Pump & dump
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)

41. What is the four P's of advertising?
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically

42. What is NOT illegal?
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Philanthropic

43. What best describes soft money?
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Price cancellation
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities

44. What BEST describes the old social contract?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Legal

45. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s
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
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Education

46. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Education
All are stakeholders

47. Which act makes it illegal for US citizens to participate in bribes?
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Non-renewal resources

48. What is NOT a conflict of interest?
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
All are conflicts of interest
Help developing countries stregthen their economics

49. What types of contributions to a political campaign have donations limits imposed by law?
OSHA
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Hard money

50. What statement is TRUE?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Act utilitarianism
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary