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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. What is NOT a type of imperative considered under Kantian ethics?
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Universal imperative
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive

2. 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)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

3. Hiring family members would be considered which type of conflict of interest?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

4. What is NOT true of the WTO?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Enquiring about off duty activities

5. What BEST describes the old social contract?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)

6. What is environmental justice?
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Fidiciary
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Non-point source contributions

7. OSHA was created to?
Dumpster diving
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
Ensure worker safety
Environmental equilibrium

8. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
Through PACS
Dumpster diving
To lower greenhouse gas emissions

9. Arable land is used for?
Patriot Act
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Environmental equilibrium
All are correct guidelines

10. Noisy withdrawal is?
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Democratic leadership style
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
All are related to government & business interactions

11. What is the four P's of advertising?
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
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

12. What is NOT an unethical pricing strategy?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Economical
Price cancellation

13. 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.
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Price cancellation

14. A grease payment can also be called?
Facilitating payment
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
All are possible benefits

15. What types of contributions to a political campaign have donations limits imposed by law?
All are examples of corporate espionage
Hard money
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s

16. The EEOC investiges violations of the?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Misstating financial statements

17. 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?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Act utilitarianism
All are stakeholders
Environmental equilibrium

18. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
All are ways businesses are regulated
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
Board of Directors

19. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Discrimination
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Ad hoc (means for this)

20. What is a standard that aides companies in improving their environmental practices?
All are correct guidelines
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
All would be addressed in an NDA
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

21. What best describes in kind contribution?
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Sexual discrimination
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

22. What is NOT a type of loophole that developed in response to limitations placed on hard money contributions?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Oil spill
Non-point source contributions
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

23. What best describes rule utilitarianism?
A person considers an action independently of a situation & determines whether it is more often moral or immoral to determine how to classify it in all situations
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Dumpster diving
Conflict diamonds

24. What statement is TRUE?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Immanuel Kant
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary

25. According to teleological ethics an action's morality is determined based on its consequences?
All are possible benefits
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
All are related to government & business interactions
Reputation

26. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Education
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance

27. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
All are concerns about outsourcing
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Fidiciary

28. What term describes a moral theory which derives morality from actions?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)

29. What is a way in which government interventions in the economy can be beneficial to consumers?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
All would be addressed in an NDA
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price

30. What is regulated by FDA?
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Fidiciary
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
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)

31. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Lawyers
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.

32. 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
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters

33. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Education
All are stakeholders

34. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
All are stakeholders

35. What is NOT a guideline set forth by Supreme court to be used in creating affirmative action programs?
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
All are correct guidelines
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

36. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
Lawyers
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters

37. What is NOT true of sexual harassment?
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)

38. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
All would be addressed in an NDA
Facilitating payment
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)

39. What is NOT a rule for creating maxims under Kantian ethics?
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities

40. What statement is FALSE?
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Dumpster diving

41. If a person were to sue a co. for not fulfilling a contractual obligation it would be?
Immanuel Kant
Democratic leadership style
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
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

42. The fact that in many cases a company's worth is greater than the value of its tangible assets is referred to as?
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities

43. A manager implements new safety procedures because they feel obligated to protect the safety of their employees. Which of Kolhbergs stages does this describe?
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.
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Monopolies
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

44. A stable state economy is in a state of?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Prevent international trade crisis
Environmental equilibrium

45. What term is synonymous with philanthropy?
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)

46. A cookie?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
To lower greenhouse gas emissions

47. If a person owns a cupcake business & works in a cupcake factory - what type of conflict of interest is it considered?
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)

48. What best describes soft money?
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Through PACS
All are possible benefits
Ad hoc (means for this)

49. What would NOT be addressed in a Non-disclosure agreement?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
All would be addressed in an NDA
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
All are stakeholders

50. What is NOT a way that government can influence businesses?
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
All are concerns about outsourcing
Through PACS
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment