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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. What is NOT a rule for creating maxims under Kantian ethics?
Laws regulating consumer protection
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Self reference criterion

2. What best describes in kind contribution?
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary

3. What is NOT a type of discrimination investigated by the EEOC?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Education
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination

4. What is NOT a type of loophole that developed in response to limitations placed on hard money contributions?
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Economical
Non-point source contributions

5. Lobbying is?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

6. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Through PACS

7. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Conflict diamonds
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

8. Corporate governance?
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company

9. What statement is NOT true?
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Oil spill
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.
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

10. What is NOT an ex. of social engineering?
Dumpster diving
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
All are ways businesses are regulated

11. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
Conflict diamonds
Prevent international trade crisis
All are examples of corporate espionage
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

12. What is NOT true of sexual harassment?
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Ensure worker safety
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Education

13. Utilitarianism is a type of?
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Immanuel Kant
Donated to a candidates campaign

14. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Discrimination
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Environmental equilibrium
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.

15. Who has legal responsibility for a company's actions in a corporation?
Board of Directors
All are correct guidelines
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

16. 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?
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Philanthropic
Oil spill

17. What statement about Corporate Social Responsibility is FALSE?
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Environmental equilibrium
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary

18. What is NOT true of the WTO?
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)

19. A conflict of interest?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
Facilitating payment

20. 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?
Donated to a candidates campaign
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Lawyers
Pump & dump

21. What is NOT a regulation for insiders trading stock?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
All are ways businesses are regulated
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
60 days

22. What statement is TRUE?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Comparable worth

23. According to teleological ethics an action's morality is determined based on its consequences?
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 are ways businesses are regulated
True statement teleological ethics an actions morality is determined based on its consequences. type of consequentialism.
Sexual harassment

24. Karen Silkwood is associated with?
Fidiciary
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

25. Implied falsity?
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
All are correct guidelines
60 days

26. What statement is NOT true?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)

27. What term is synonymous with philanthropy?
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
All are stakeholders
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)

28. the merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines raised concerns about what?
Ensure worker safety
Monopolies
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Education

29. What situation would be considered moral under Kantian theory?
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
The only ethical regulation s businesses follow are mandated by the government
Hard money
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do

30. What type of responsibility is the LEAST regulated?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Philanthropic

31. The purpose of the World Bank is?
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Donated to a candidates campaign
Help developing countries stregthen their economics

32. What is NOT true of NAFTA?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
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

33. What type of information is complied to answer a specific question?
Ad hoc (means for this)
Reputation
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Non-point source contributions

34. What statement is FALSE?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
All are related to government & business interactions
Non-point source contributions
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases

35. What is NOT an unethical pricing strategy?
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
Price cancellation
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

36. What theory claims that ethical beliefs are determined by the society in which one lives?
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Legal
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Ethical relativism (no universal set of moral they are determined by the state & opinion in which one lives)

37. What statement is TRUE?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Democratic leadership style
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Ad hoc (means for this)

38. What act conflicts with the Privacy Act of 1974?
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
Patriot Act
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)

39. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
Misstating financial statements
All are conflicts of interest
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)

40. The Dukes vs. Walmart case involves which issue?
Consequentialism (considers the consequences of an action & the extent to which they benefit society in determining morality)
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
Sexual discrimination

41. What statement is TRUE?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
60 days

42. What is NOT a way in which business's are regulated?
All are ways businesses are regulated
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting

43. A stable state economy is in a state of?
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
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Environmental equilibrium
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal

44. What statement would be the most correct under a classical view of business?
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Hard money

45. What is NOT an attempt at creating a universal ethical standard?
Donated to a candidates campaign
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

46. 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?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Dumpster diving
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other
Act utilitarianism

47. What is the purpose of the Kyoto Protocol?
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
EEOC (has to do with employment in US)
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Pump & dump

48. 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?
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Price cancellation
All are related to government & business interactions

49. Hiring family members would be considered which type of conflict of interest?
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
The act did all
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records

50. What correctly describes the legality of camera surveillance methods in a workplace?
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
Sexual harassment
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance