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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?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Universal imperative
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
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

2. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
Ensure worker safety
All are concerns about outsourcing
Economical
Pay raises

3. What statement is NOT true?
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
Conflict diamonds
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.

4. Fossil fuels are?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Board of Directors
Non-renewal resources
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive

5. Who is best known for creating the categorical imperative?
Education
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Immanuel Kant

6. What correctly describes the legality of camera surveillance methods in a workplace?
Environmental equilibrium
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Ad hoc (means for this)
Oil spill

7. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Reputation
All are stakeholders

8. The Dukes vs. Walmart case involves which issue?
Sexual discrimination
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

9. What is the responsibility of the FDA?
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
To ensure & protect public health & safety
All are stakeholders
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

10. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Ensure worker safety
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Oil spill

11. What statement best describes the difference between corporate intelligence & corpirate espionage?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting

12. What statement is NOT true?
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Non-point source contributions
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.

13. What statement BEST describes attitudes toward outsourcing?
Discrimination
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Ad hoc (means for this)

14. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
Through PACS
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Conflict diamonds

15. 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)
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Prevent international trade crisis
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

16. A cookie?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Oil spill
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
A strong focus on developing core values

17. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
All are stakeholders
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Pump & dump

18. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Fidiciary

19. Hiring family members would be considered which type of conflict of interest?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Education
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

20. Lobbying is?
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions

21. What is NOT a result of a shift to the new social contract?
Pay raises
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)

22. Some people believe that women earn less than men because female held jobs have been historically devalued - & that women should be given equal pay for equal work. This belief called?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Comparable worth
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks

23. A manager implements new safety procedures because they feel obligated to protect the safety of their employees. Which of Kolhbergs stages does this describe?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities

24. The president of the co must decide whethere to continue to sell textbooks that he knows have incorrect information in them or not. Considered from standpoint of Kantian ethics the president would most likely?
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Monopolies
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

25. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
OSHA
All are examples of corporate espionage
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

26. What types of contributions to a political campaign have donations limits imposed by law?
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Hard money
Education
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.

27. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Education
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)

28. What statement is FALSE?
All are examples of corporate espionage
Democratic leadership style
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

29. OSHA was created to?
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Education
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Ensure worker safety

30. What are conflict diamonds?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Ensure worker safety

31. What aid employers in keeping information private?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)

32. An ombudsman is?
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
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Price cancellation

33. Implied falsity?
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Dumpster diving
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.

34. What is the four P's of advertising?
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Education

35. 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
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
Universal imperative

36. What situation would be considered moral under Kantian theory?
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Ad hoc (means for this)
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

37. What is NOT related to the interactions that occur between government & business?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
All are related to government & business interactions
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

38. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
All are concerns about outsourcing
Laws regulating consumer protection
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Donated to a candidates campaign

39. If a person owns a cupcake business & works in a cupcake factory - what type of conflict of interest is it considered?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting

40. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Prevent international trade crisis

41. A conflict of interest?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Patriot Act
Immanuel Kant

42. The EEOC investiges violations of the?
The act did all
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Philanthropic
Monopolies

43. Cost benefit considerations would be most typical of what type of ethics?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over 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
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

44. What is NOT an ex. of social engineering?
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Environmental equilibrium
Dumpster diving

45. 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?
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards

46. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Enquiring about off duty activities
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

47. What is a standard that aides companies in improving their environmental practices?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Sexual discrimination
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

48. In what situation would an NDA NOT be used?
Sexual harassment
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)

49. If people object to something being built near their homes it is referred to as?
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Economical
Pump & dump
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

50. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
Pump & dump
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Education