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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many days of notice does the WARN Act require employers to give employees?
60 days
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Conflict diamonds
Environmental equilibrium

2. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
A strong focus on developing core values
All are conflicts of interest
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)

3. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
All are related to government & business interactions

4. What correctly describes the legality of camera surveillance methods in a workplace?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Environmental equilibrium
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

5. What is NOT regulated by the FDA?
Diamonds which are sold with the purpose of funding insurrection or war.
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
Education
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

6. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Education
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare
All are possible benefits
All are conflicts of interest

7. What statement is TRUE?
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically

8. What best describes in kind contribution?
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional

9. What is NOT a rule for creating maxims under Kantian ethics?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Prevent international trade crisis
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

10. Does the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act include grease payments?
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
All are possible benefits
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)

11. A noisy withdrawal would be done by?
Lawyers
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

12. A grease payment can also be called?
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
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Legal
Facilitating payment

13. The Fair Labor Standards Act?
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
Legal
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions

14. What term is synonymous with philanthropy?
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Environmental equilibrium
All are possible benefits
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society

15. What statement is FALSE?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.

16. What type of information is complied to answer a specific question?
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Ad hoc (means for this)
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to

17. If a person were to sue a co. for not fulfilling a contractual obligation it would be?
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

18. The term quid pro quo related to what issue?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)
All are ways businesses are regulated
Sexual harassment

19. What is NOT a legal way for employers to monitor employees?
Reputation
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Enquiring about off duty activities

20. What is NOT true of NAFTA?
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Government regulations are always detrimental because the economy is self-correcting
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc

21. What BEST describes affirmative action?
Philanthropic
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.

22. A cookie?
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Non-renewal resources
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other

23. OSHA was created to?
Ensure worker safety
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Universal imperative

24. Who has legal responsibility for a company's actions in a corporation?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Ethics. Most people felt the program (which charged more for the middle class people) was highly unethical & would not support it.
Board of Directors
Hard money

25. 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)
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions

26. Ethical & philanthropic responsibilities are important in building?
Reputation
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)

27. What moral theory is NOT consequentialist?
Universal imperative
Kantian ethics (is deontological determines morality based on the morality of the action itself)
Allows foreign citizens to bring a citizen of the US to trial in the US
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

28. Oversight refers to?
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price

29. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
Comparable worth
Fidiciary
All are stakeholders
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)

30. Cost benefit considerations would be most typical of what type of ethics?
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Pay raises

31. 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?
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
Illegal drugs (drugs are monitored by DEA)
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
Sexual discrimination

32. The origins of the FDA can be traces to what ACT?
Prevent international trade crisis
Education
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
It requires employers to give workers notice before mass layoffs so that they can prepare

33. Arable land is used for?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Non-point source contributions
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

34. What would NOT be addressed in a Non-disclosure agreement?
Non-point source contributions
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
All would be addressed in an NDA

35. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Board of Directors
Misstating financial statements
Price cancellation

36. A conflict of interest?
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions

37. What types of contributions to a political campaign have donations limits imposed by law?
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
Hard money
Economical
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action

38. The fact that in many cases a company's worth is greater than the value of its tangible assets is referred to as?
All are examples of corporate espionage
Goodwill (good reputation makes co. worth more)
Sexual discrimination
Prevent international trade crisis

39. What is NOT legally required in management relations with labor unions?
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Ad hoc (means for this)

40. Implied falsity?
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
60 days
Economical

41. What statement is NOT true?
All would be addressed in an NDA
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.
Donating money to a humanitarian organizaiton for the purchase of blankets
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)

42. What best describes soft money?
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Money that is donated to political parties for the purpose of party building activities
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Board of Directors

43. What is NOT related to the interactions that occur between government & business?
The considerations of large co about the well being of society when they make business decisions
Dumpster diving
All are related to government & business interactions
Sets forth standards for management in relations with labor unions

44. An employer who posted a list of weekly resonsibilities for employees to fulfill would best be described by which leadership style?
Environmental equilibrium
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Enquiring about off duty activities

45. Command & control regulations?
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

46. What term describes a moral theory which derives morality from actions?
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)
OSHA
All would be addressed in an NDA
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)

47. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
Facilitating payment
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Economical
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

48. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Product - Place - Promotion - & Price
Ad hoc (means for this)
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Conflict diamonds

49. What is NOT a regulation for insiders trading stock?
Discontinue the sale of the textbooks because as a general rule the practice is not unconditional
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Employers may use subjective considerations for hiring as long as they do not produce a discriminatory environment
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

50. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Comparable worth
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Ethical egosim (states if it benefits the person then it is the right thing to do)
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)