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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. What does EEOC stand for?
Self reference criterion
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Non-point source contributions
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2. Which act makes it illegal for US citizens to participate in bribes?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Enquiring about off duty activities
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

3. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Discrimination
Donated to a candidates campaign
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive

4. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
Act utilitarianism
Prevent international trade crisis
Pay raises
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

5. In the case of Watson vs. Fort Worth Bank & Trust the court ruled?
Education
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment

6. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
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
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

7. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

8. 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)
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards

9. What is the responsibility of the FDA?
Donated to a candidates campaign
Philanthropic
Enquiring about off duty activities
To ensure & protect public health & safety

10. Noisy withdrawal is?
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

11. What are conflict diamonds?
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
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Legal
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.

12. What best describes soft money?
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Education
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities

13. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Act utilitarianism
Enquiring about off duty activities

14. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

15. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
Ad hoc (means for this)
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
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.
Fidiciary

16. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Oil spill
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time

17. What is more typical of a values oriented ethical program that a compliance oriented ethics program?
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
Non-point source contributions
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
A strong focus on developing core values

18. Who is best known for creating the categorical imperative?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Environmental equilibrium
Immanuel Kant

19. What is NOT a right outlined in the Privacy Act of 1974?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

20. A grease payment can also be called?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Facilitating payment
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Patriot Act

21. A conflict of interest?
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Philanthropic
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit

22. Corporate governance?
Through PACS
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)

23. What statement is TRUE?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)

24. Implied falsity?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities

25. What is the purpose of the WARN Act?
Facilitating payment
All are examples of corporate espionage
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
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

26. 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
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters

27. How many days of notice does the WARN Act require employers to give employees?
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
60 days
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

28. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Conflict diamonds
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources

29. What statement is TRUE?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

30. In what situation would an NDA NOT be used?
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Reputation

31. What agency does not relate in some manner to international trade?
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
All are related to government & business interactions
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

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
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Lawyers
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Sexual discrimination

33. Business ethics is?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
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
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

34. What is NOT an example of an in kind contribution?
Pump & dump
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets

35. What is NOT related to the interactions that occur between government & business?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
All are related to government & business interactions
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Comparable worth

36. What BEST describes the old social contract?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US

37. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
All are stakeholders
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional

38. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
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
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.

39. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
All are stakeholders
Hard money
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)

40. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
Laws regulating consumer protection
Hard money
Price cancellation
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

41. What BEST describes affirmative action?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Economical
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

42. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

43. What statement is FALSE?
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Non-renewal resources

44. Ergonomics is?
All are possible benefits
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)

45. If a person owns a cupcake business & works in a cupcake factory - what type of conflict of interest is it considered?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Civil Rights Act of 1964
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other

46. The Tyco scandal is associated with which ACT?
Restore stakeholder confidence in the securities market after a series of scandals in the early 2000s
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Pump & dump

47. Corporate citizenship?
Pump & dump
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Price cancellation
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

48. Protections for workers from workplace hazard are regulated & mandated by what agency?
OSHA
Act utilitarianism
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

49. What is NOT a guideline set forth by Supreme court to be used in creating affirmative action programs?
All are related to government & business interactions
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
All are correct guidelines
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.

50. What is true about spam?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
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
Board of Directors
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)