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DSST Business Ethics And Society

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1. What is best ex. of point secure pollution?
Oil spill
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

2. A virus is?
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time
Non-renewal resources
A piece of code which spreads from computer to computer & can disrupt computer functions.
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)

3. What term is synonymous with philanthropy?
Misstating financial statements
Immanuel Kant
Altruism (refers to placing the needs of another above oneself)
Non-renewal resources

4. Corporate governance?
A system of accountability - oversight - & control within the company
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Prevent international trade crisis
No - grease payments are not considered bribes & are therefore not illegal under the FCPA

5. What aid employers in keeping information private?
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
NDA (non-disclosure agreements are legal & binding)
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Democratic leadership style

6. What is NOT a type of imperative considered under Kantian ethics?
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
Universal imperative
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser

7. What statement is TRUE?
All are examples of corporate espionage
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Board of Directors
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

8. Why did Supreme Court rule in favor of Walmart in the case of Dukes vs Walmart?
Non-point source contributions
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Decide the benefits of releasing the software now outweight the costs - & present the product as finished
A maxim must be specific (should be generalized)

9. The purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Logos - jingles - & brand names can all be ex. of trademarks
Prevent international trade crisis
All are conflicts of interest

10. What is true about spam?
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 correct guidelines
Nepotism (considering the interests of family ahead of what is best for the business)
Environmental equilibrium

11. What best describes in kind contribution?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Fidiciary
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

12. What is regulated by FDA?
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)

13. Noisy withdrawal is?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
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
When a lawyer withdraws legal representation for their client & notifies the proper authorities

14. An employer who posted a list of weekly resonsibilities for employees to fulfill would best be described by which leadership style?
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group

15. What is the stakeholder model of corporate governance?
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
A person has the right to remove documents about themselves from government records
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.

16. A business practices underhanded accounting practices to raise stock prices & make money. Which type of ethics does this fall under?
Economical
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Corporate intelligence involves legally gathering information about a co. & corporate espionage involves illegally gathering information about a co.
All are concerns about outsourcing

17. What BEST describes the old social contract?
All are stakeholders
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
If workers were loyal - punctual - & had at least decently efficient they could expect to keep their jobs & perhaps even advance over time.
Help developing countries stregthen their economics

18. What is a way in which government interventions in the economy can be beneficial to consumers?
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
Product safety regulations - Import tariffs
NIMBY (not in my backyard)

19. What statement is NOT true?
Fidiciary
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.
Outside employment where a person has 2 jobs which conflict with each other

20. The term glass ceiling related to which employer-employee relations issue?
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Allows an orgin site to send information to a computers browser
Discrimination
All would be addressed in an NDA

21. What is NOT a regulation for insiders trading stock?
All are possible benefits
Although video surveillance is essentially unrestricted there are limits to an employers use of audio surveillance
Legal
They can only sell stock amounting to a 10 M value at a time

22. Lobbying is?
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
OSHA

23. What is NOT an agency responsible for protecting workers health?
KPCS (they work to reduce circulation of conflict diamonds)
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
To lower greenhouse gas emissions
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

24. What statement about Corporate Social Responsibility is FALSE?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
The WTO is governed by a conference of Secretariats with one Secretariat from each country
Outsourcing is often criticized however it can have many economic benefits because it allows companies to produce at a lower cost.
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society

25. What is NOT a form of marketing fraud?
Misstating financial statements
Utilitarianism (focus on considering the benefit & costs & if benefits are greater than costs then action is moral)
Act utilitarianism
Universal Ethics Protocol organization

26. What would NOT be illegal under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
Stage 1 (person most concerned with avoiding punishment)
If a co. pays a low level official to ensure that their employees receive work visas more quickly than normal
Immanuel Kant
Outsourcing is unanimously agreed to be a beneficial process.

27. Business ethics is?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
Help developing countries stregthen their economics
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

28. 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?
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Pump & dump
Reputation
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive

29. 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?
Sexual discrimination
Stage 4 (people are motivated primarily by authority such as law)
Non-point source contributions
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices

30. What is NOT a way that government can influence businesses?
Meeting with senators - representative - staff members or other important people to persuade them to vote how you wish them to
Random drug testing of employees is allowed in all cases
Through PACS
Pay raises

31. Business with a mindset of the customer is always right often find themselves subject to more of which type of fraud?
Stage 5 People act because they feel an obligation to society
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Universal Ethics Protocol organization
Pay raises

32. If a resource is used at the same rate at which it can be replenished it is describes as?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
NIMBY (not in my backyard)
Environmental equilibrium
Pay raises

33. The Dukes vs. Walmart case involves which issue?
A grease payment make things that would normally occur happen at a faster rate
Sexual discrimination
Telling the truth because you think it is the right thing to do
Sexual harassment

34. 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?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Advertising which involves technically true claims which are misleading by nature.
Post conventional (person is ruled by conscience instead of society)
OSHA

35. What case established that is was how actions were interpreted that matter in sexual harassment cases?
Consumer (gives customeres more room to manipulate or deceive the business)
Sexual discrimination
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Monopolies

36. Which co was NOT implicated in the early 2000s?
The study of designing more comfortably or easily used equipment
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Pay raises

37. What statement is TRUE?
It is unanimously agreed that there is a dire need for it in todays society
Harris vs. Forklife Systems - Inc
Taxes negatively impact efficient economic operations by driving a wedge between businesses & customers. However - they are often necessary
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group

38. What is NOT a responsibility that should be considreed by businesses?
An intermediary who investigates complaints against a group
Civil case (feel their rights have been violated)
Fidiciary
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment

39. What statement is FALSE about merger between Delta Air Lines & Northwest Airlines in 2008?
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
Because Dukes could not proves all women employees faced discrimination practices
Because Delta & Northwest are not the only airlines there is not way the merge could be considered anticompetitive
All are possible benefits

40. Protections for workers from workplace hazard are regulated & mandated by what agency?
OSHA
Patriot Act
Pure Food & Drug Act (in 1906 to force food producing industries to practice sanitation)
ISO 14001 (voluntary standard which attempts to aid co in creating continually improving practices)

41. The term quid pro quo related to what issue?
An attempt to apply moral & ethical principles to business actions
An NDA would be appropriate in all situations
Sexual harassment
Kerr-McGee (plutonium tampering)

42. Considered from an ethical standpoint - MNCs should?
Facilitating payment
The primary factor in sexual harassment cases is the intent of the action
Finding ways to eliminate the opportunities for employees to act unethically
Conform to the highest standards in all businesses whether overseas or not

43. What is NOT a result of a shift to the new social contract?
Non-point source contributions
Pay raises
Act utilitarianism
Statistical discrimination - Unintentional discrimination

44. What group would not be considered a stakeholder?
All are stakeholders
OSHA
A move toward equality among all races in issues related to environmental hazards
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)

45. What does NOT focus on increasing the ethical awareness of employees & strengthening the ethical culture of a workplace?
An effective leader should be able to switch between transformational & transactional leadership styles.
That management agrees to terms set forth by labor unions
Deontological ethics (claims the morality of an action is determined by the morality of the action itself regardless of the consequences)
Democratic leadership style

46. Arable land is used for?
PACS are organized by SIGs (special interest groups)
Sustainable development emphasizes the development of new & innovative technologies to reduce the overuse of natural resources
Through PACS
Farming (suitable for agricultural use)

47. A conflict of interest?
When a person is in a position to exploit their power for their own benefit
All were implicated in scandals (Enron - Coca-Cola - Tyco International)
Radioactive products (threat to public safety)
When a person or co. trades goods or services in place of money.

48. What is NOT true of NAFTA?
Any program which seeks to reverse the effects of any form of discrimination
Conflict diamonds
As part of NAFTA - Canada & US agree to help Mexico in trade matters
Pre-conventional (main goal of a person is survival. justification of actions comes from understanding punishment & reward system)

49. Command & control regulations?
Stage 2 people are concerned with obtaining rewards
Authoritative (leader makes decisions & tells employees what their responsibilities are)
Regulate how a co should manage certain processes that pollute the environment
Act utilitarianism (called maximizing utility)

50. What is NOT an illegal basis of discrimination?
Self reference criterion
Education
Economical
To lower greenhouse gas emissions