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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. What is more typical of a values oriented ethical program that a compliance oriented ethics program?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
A strong focus on developing core values

2. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Ensure worker safety
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically

3. Business ethics is?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Ensure worker safety

4. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
All are ways businesses are regulated
Oil spill
All are concerns about outsourcing

5. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically

6. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Hard money

7. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
Universal imperative
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
Donated to a candidates campaign

8. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
Enquiring about off duty activities
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
All are stakeholders
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

9. What is NOT a regulation for insiders trading stock?
Environmental equilibrium
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other

10. 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?
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)

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.
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
The act did all

12. The term quid pro quo related to what issue?
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Sexual harassment
Education
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions

13. What is NOT a way in which business's are regulated?
Education
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
All are ways businesses are regulated

14. If people object to something being built near their homes it is referred to as?
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Comparable worth
Patriot Act
Sexual discrimination

15. Noisy withdrawal is?
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
OSHA
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
Education

16. What is a standard that aides companies in improving their environmental practices?
Pump & dump
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards

17. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Education
Board of Directors
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)

18. Hard money is?
Donated to a candidates campaign
Hard money
Misstating financial statements
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards

19. The origins of the FDA can be traces to what ACT?
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Non-renewal resources
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
Sexual harassment

20. What is NOT an example of how corporate espionage can occur?
All are examples of corporate espionage
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Enquiring about off duty activities
Immanuel Kant

21. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Misstating financial statements
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Discrimination

22. The FTC was created to monitor which type of regulation?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Laws regulating consumer protection
All are stakeholders
Donated to a candidates campaign

23. What agency does not relate in some manner to international trade?
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Education

24. What is NOT true of NAFTA?
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Non-renewal resources
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
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance

25. A virus is?
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
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

26. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

27. What statement is TRUE?
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Price cancellation
All are concerns about outsourcing

28. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Economical
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

29. Who has legal responsibility for a company's actions in a corporation?
Board of Directors
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
All are ways businesses are regulated
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

30. A conflict of interest?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
All are related to government & business interactions
Self reference criterion
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.

31. What does EEOC stand for?
Pump & dump
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)

32. Which co was NOT implicated in the early 2000s?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Pump & dump
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

33. What is regulated by FDA?
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Environmental equilibrium
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)

34. What is NOT a type of imperative considered under Kantian ethics?
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Oil spill
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Universal imperative

35. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)

36. What BEST describes the old social contract?
Universal imperative
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Sexual harassment
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

37. What is NOT true of sexual harassment?
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Education
Board of Directors

38. What best describes soft money?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Non-renewal resources
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional

39. A stable state economy is in a state of?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Through PACS
Environmental equilibrium
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)

40. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
All are concerns about outsourcing
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Conflict diamonds

41. What does NOT focus on increasing the ethical awareness of employees & strengthening the ethical culture of a workplace?
Democratic leadership style
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Pump & dump

42. What of the following is TRUE?
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Act utilitarianism

43. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Lawyers
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society

44. What aid employers in keeping information private?
Philanthropic
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.

45. What best describes in kind contribution?
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
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.
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser

46. What would NOT be addressed in a Non-disclosure agreement?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
All would be addressed in an NDA
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.

47. Who is best known for creating the categorical 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
Immanuel Kant
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

48. What is the four P's of advertising?
Education
Legal
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price

49. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
All are possible benefits
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

50. Command & control regulations?
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)