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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was created to stop the circulation of?
Conflict diamonds
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs

2. Lobbying is?
Environmental equilibrium
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

3. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Environmental equilibrium
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Prevent international trade crisis

4. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

5. Noisy withdrawal is?
Self reference criterion
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

6. A child cleans their room so they will be allowed to go to a friends house. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
All are concerns about outsourcing
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
All are stakeholders
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)

7. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Facilitating payment

8. The Tyco scandal is associated with which ACT?
Patriot Act
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Sarbanes-Oxley Act

9. 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?
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser

10. What is NOT a type of loophole that developed in response to limitations placed on hard money contributions?
Non-point source contributions
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Ensure worker safety
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary

11. The Alien Tort Claims Act?
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Democratic leadership style
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance

12. What of the following is TRUE?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Ad hoc (means for this)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

13. What statement is TRUE?
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Democratic leadership style

14. In the case of Watson vs. Fort Worth Bank & Trust the court ruled?
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs

15. What statement is TRUE?
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
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.
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.

16. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Oil spill
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)

17. Fossil fuels are?
Non-renewal resources
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

18. What type of information is complied to answer a specific question?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Ad hoc (means for this)
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.

19. The purpose of the World Bank is?
Education
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

20. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)
Patriot Act
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

21. Protections for workers from workplace hazard are regulated & mandated by what agency?
All are examples of corporate espionage
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
OSHA

22. Which co was NOT implicated in the early 2000s?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

23. What statement is TRUE?
All are related to government & business interactions
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Sexual harassment

24. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Pay raises
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

25. What act conflicts with the Privacy Act of 1974?
All are conflicts of interest
Patriot Act
Immanuel Kant
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

26. 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?
Pump & dump
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

27. 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?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Education
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting

28. What does NOT focus on increasing the ethical awareness of employees & strengthening the ethical culture of a workplace?
Self reference criterion
Economical
Philanthropic
Democratic leadership style

29. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
Monopolies
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
Prevent international trade crisis

30. The EEOC investiges violations of the?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
A strong focus on developing core values
Misstating financial statements

31. What is regulated by FDA?
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)

32. What is NOT a guideline set forth by Supreme court to be used in creating affirmative action programs?
Philanthropic
Hard money
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
All are correct guidelines

33. What theory claims that ethical beliefs are determined by the society in which one lives?
Oil spill
All are correct guidelines
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)

34. What is environmental justice?
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

35. A conflict of interest?
Pay raises
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit

36. What is the purpose of the WARN Act?
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
60 days
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

37. What statement would be the most correct under a classical view of business?
Pay raises
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Comparable worth
Economical

38. Utilitarianism is a type of?
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government

39. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
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
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

40. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

41. Corporate citizenship?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Act utilitarianism
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions

42. What statement is TRUE?
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
All are concerns about outsourcing
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price

43. A person helps an old lady across the street because they think that it is the right thing to do - & makes them feel useful & happy. Which of Kohlbergs stages are they in?
All are examples of corporate espionage
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance

44. What statement is FALSE?
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
All would be addressed in an NDA
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

45. If a resource is used at the same rate at which it can be replenished it is describes as?
Environmental equilibrium
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Pay raises
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.

46. What is NOT an ex. of social engineering?
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Dumpster diving
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Monopolies

47. What would NOT be addressed in a Non-disclosure agreement?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
All would be addressed in an NDA
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs

48. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Education
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations

49. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Environmental equilibrium
Self reference criterion
Lawyers

50. What does EEOC stand for?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions