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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. According to teleological ethics an action's morality is determined based on its consequences?
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional

2. What is the stakeholder model of corporate governance?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
All are examples of corporate espionage
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
60 days

3. OSHA was created to?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Ensure worker safety

4. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
All are concerns about outsourcing
Laws regulating consumer protection
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

5. What is the four P's of advertising?
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Through PACS

6. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Act utilitarianism
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Discrimination

7. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
All are ways businesses are regulated
Education

8. What act conflicts with the Privacy Act of 1974?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Patriot Act
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

9. Arable land is used for?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
All are correct guidelines

10. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Prevent international trade crisis
Help developing countries stregthen their economics

11. Hard money is?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Donated to a candidates campaign
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

12. What is the responsibility of the FDA?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
To ensure & protect public health & safety
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

13. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
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
All are stakeholders
Facilitating payment

14. What statement is TRUE?
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

15. What statement is TRUE?
Oil spill
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
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.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

16. What is NOT a reason clinton's attempt at healthcare reform in the early 1990s failed?
Board of Directors
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

17. The Fair Labor Standards Act?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
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

18. Fossil fuels are?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Non-renewal resources
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment

19. What is NOT a way in which business's are regulated?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Reputation
All are ways businesses are regulated

20. A stable state economy is in a state of?
The act did all
Environmental equilibrium
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices

21. What moral theory considers the action resulting in the greatest benefit to all people as the most moral action?
The act did all
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Fidiciary
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)

22. What statement is NOT true?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
To ensure & protect public health & safety
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.

23. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Misstating financial statements
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Price cancellation

24. 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?
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
60 days
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Pump & dump

25. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
Price cancellation
All are examples of corporate espionage
Environmental equilibrium
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

26. The purpose of the World Bank is?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Oil spill
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Immanuel Kant

27. Fast food places do not pay their workers less than minimum wage because it is against the law. Which of Kohlbergs stages does this describe?
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
All are concerns about outsourcing

28. Ethical & philanthropic responsibilities are important in building?
Oil spill
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Reputation
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.

29. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Misstating financial statements
Economical
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.

30. The EEOC investiges violations of the?
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
Sexual harassment
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Civil Rights Act of 1964

31. The perceived 'us' vs. 'them' mentality that emerges when doing business with different cultures is referred to?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
Board of Directors
Self reference criterion
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

32. Lobbying is?
Enquiring about off duty activities
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to

33. What statement BEST describes attitudes toward outsourcing?
Ad hoc (means for this)
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
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
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

34. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

35. What agency does not relate in some manner to international trade?
Immanuel Kant
All are concerns about outsourcing
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
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

36. A manager implements new safety procedures because they feel obligated to protect the safety of their employees. Which of Kolhbergs stages does this describe?
All are ways businesses are regulated
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

37. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
Education
Enquiring about off duty activities
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)

38. What theiry claims that person should only act in their own best interst?
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Monopolies
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions

39. In the case of Watson vs. Fort Worth Bank & Trust the court ruled?
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
All are correct guidelines
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment

40. Oversight refers to?
Democratic leadership style
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically

41. The CEO of a co works to raise stock prices because they will get a bonus if the stock prices increases by a certain %. Which of Kohlberg's stages are they in?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
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
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting

42. What situation would be considered moral under Kantian theory?
Self reference criterion
Enquiring about off duty activities
Hard money
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

43. What is NOT a conflict of interest?
Oil spill
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
All are conflicts of interest
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished

44. What statement is FALSE?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Help developing countries stregthen their economics

45. The Dukes vs. Walmart case involves which issue?
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)
Sexual discrimination
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country

46. Business ethics is?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Self reference criterion
Education
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions

47. What best describes soft money?
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Misstating financial statements
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

48. 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?
Act utilitarianism
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

49. What is NOT true of the WTO?
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)

50. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
Philanthropic
Monopolies
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases