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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 environmental justice?
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
All are possible benefits
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks

2. Corporate citizenship?
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Misstating financial statements
Self reference criterion
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

3. What is true about spam?
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
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Environmental equilibrium

4. What is NOT a rule for creating maxims under Kantian ethics?
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Discrimination
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)

5. What BEST describes the old social contract?
Reputation
All would be addressed in an NDA
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act

6. What theory claims that ethical beliefs are determined by the society in which one lives?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Facilitating payment
Education
Patriot Act

7. What statement BEST describes attitudes toward outsourcing?
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Conflict diamonds
Monopolies
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)

8. What is a way in which government interventions in the economy can be beneficial to consumers?
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Patriot Act

9. 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
Ensure worker safety
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Price cancellation

10. Protections for workers from workplace hazard are regulated & mandated by what agency?
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
OSHA
Pay raises

11. What statement best describes the difference between corporate intelligence & corpirate espionage?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Fidiciary
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

12. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
All are conflicts of interest

13. Fossil fuels are?
Universal imperative
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Non-renewal resources

14. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Environmental equilibrium

15. What statement about Corporate Social Responsibility is FALSE?
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
To ensure & protect public health & safety

16. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

17. What are conflict diamonds?
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Discrimination

18. Hard money is?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Donated to a candidates campaign
All are correct guidelines
Conflict diamonds

19. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Legal
Misstating financial statements
Dumpster diving

20. A lawyer knows their client is guilty but defends them anyway. This falls under which type of ethics?
Legal
Ad hoc (means for this)
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks

21. What BEST describes affirmative action?
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Sexual discrimination
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

22. What is NOT a right outlined in the Privacy Act of 1974?
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
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 person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

23. What statement is NOT true?
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Through PACS
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

24. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
All are examples of corporate espionage
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

25. Who has legal responsibility for a company's actions in a corporation?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Board of Directors

26. Hiring family members would be considered which type of conflict of interest?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
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)
Pump & dump

27. What is NOT a regulation for insiders trading stock?
Pay raises
All are related to government & business interactions
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time

28. What act conflicts with the Privacy Act of 1974?
Oil spill
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Patriot Act
Price cancellation

29. What is a standard that aides companies in improving their environmental practices?
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Oil spill
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

30. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Conflict diamonds
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

31. How many days of notice does the WARN Act require employers to give employees?
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
60 days
A strong focus on developing core values
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

32. What does EEOC stand for?
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Sexual harassment

33. What is NOT a way that government can influence businesses?
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Through PACS
OSHA

34. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
To ensure & protect public health & safety
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Economical
All are related to government & business interactions

35. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Education
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations

36. What type of information is complied to answer a specific question?
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Ad hoc (means for this)
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment

37. What aid employers in keeping information private?
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Self reference criterion
Economical
Pay raises

38. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Comparable worth
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Education

39. What is NOT concern relative to outsourcing?
All are concerns about outsourcing
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

40. The Alien Tort Claims Act?
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)

41. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
Laws regulating consumer protection
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
All are correct guidelines

42. What would NOT be addressed in a Non-disclosure agreement?
Lawyers
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
All would be addressed in an NDA
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

43. Utilitarianism is a type of?
Ad hoc (means for this)
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)

44. OSHA was created to?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Enquiring about off duty activities
Ensure worker safety
Democratic leadership style

45. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
All are ways businesses are regulated
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit

46. What statement is TRUE?
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
Comparable worth
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.

47. What is the purpose of the WARN Act?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Through PACS
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

48. What is NOT a result of a shift to the new social contract?
Pay raises
Act utilitarianism
Environmental equilibrium
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

49. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Patriot Act
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)

50. 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)
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Hard money