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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. A lawyer knows their client is guilty but defends them anyway. This falls under which type of ethics?
Legal
Oil spill
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)

2. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

3. 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.
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
All are ways businesses are regulated
Reputation

4. What BEST describes the old social contract?
All are related to government & business interactions
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Economical

5. 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)
Universal imperative
All are conflicts of interest
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)

6. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

7. What is NOT an example of an in kind contribution?
To ensure & protect public health & safety
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
To lower greenhouse gas emissions

8. What is NOT a way in which business's are regulated?
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
All are ways businesses are regulated
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society

9. What is NOT legally required in management relations with labor unions?
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
All are concerns about outsourcing
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

10. Ethical & philanthropic responsibilities are important in building?
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Reputation
Facilitating payment
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary

11. What best describes in kind contribution?
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)

12. 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
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Conflict diamonds
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions

13. What is NOT a rule for creating maxims under Kantian ethics?
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
The act did all
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
All are concerns about outsourcing

14. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
All are examples of corporate espionage
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

15. What situation would be considered moral under Kantian theory?
Patriot Act
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
Facilitating payment
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

16. What is NOT a benefit which can come to companies as a result of substainable business practices?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
All are possible benefits
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance

17. What aid employers in keeping information private?
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Immanuel Kant
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
A strong focus on developing core values

18. What is NOT a type of loophole that developed in response to limitations placed on hard money contributions?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Non-point source contributions
Facilitating payment
Laws regulating consumer protection

19. Who is best known for creating the categorical imperative?
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Enquiring about off duty activities
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Immanuel Kant

20. Ergonomics is?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Universal imperative
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

21. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Economical
The act did all
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices

22. What of the following is TRUE?
All are concerns about outsourcing
Self reference criterion
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Philanthropic

23. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Environmental equilibrium
Sexual harassment

24. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Misstating financial statements

25. What is NOT a conflict of interest?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Dumpster diving
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
All are conflicts of interest

26. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.

27. Noisy withdrawal 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
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

28. The origins of the FDA can be traces to what ACT?
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country

29. 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.
Self reference criterion
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Pay raises

30. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Monopolies
Non-point source contributions
All would be addressed in an NDA

31. What statement is FALSE?
Enquiring about off duty activities
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Sarbanes-Oxley Act

32. 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?
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
Patriot Act
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

33. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Non-point source contributions
Environmental equilibrium
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Oil spill

34. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
Education
Laws regulating consumer protection
Environmental equilibrium
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards

35. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
Misstating financial statements
Enquiring about off duty activities
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

36. What types of contributions to a political campaign have donations limits imposed by law?
60 days
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Hard money

37. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Self reference criterion
Enquiring about off duty activities

38. Arable land is used for?
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
60 days
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
The act did all

39. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Education

40. The Alien Tort Claims Act?
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Hard money
Environmental equilibrium

41. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Prevent international trade crisis
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

42. What moral theory is NOT consequentialist?
OSHA
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

43. If people object to something being built near their homes it is referred to as?
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Facilitating payment
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

44. What moral theory considers the action resulting in the greatest benefit to all people as the most moral action?
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

45. Which co was NOT implicated in the early 2000s?
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
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 were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

46. An employee of a donut shop does not steal donuts because they are afraid they would get fired if they did. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
To lower greenhouse gas emissions

47. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
Laws regulating consumer protection
All are examples of corporate espionage
Lawyers
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

48. Cost benefit considerations would be most typical of what type of ethics?
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
All are examples of corporate espionage
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

49. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
All are stakeholders
All are possible benefits

50. What agency does not relate in some manner to international trade?
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
All are ways businesses are regulated
All would be addressed in an NDA