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Sometimes companies find that in order to behave ethically, it is necessary to go beyond the requirements of the law. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Differences in economic development, politics, legal systems, and culture across countries can contribute to ethical issues for companies. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Thanks to the establishment of global environmental standards, monitoring environmental issues has become a non-issue for companies. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was ultimately proved to be disadvantageous to American firms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Business ethics and personal ethics are independent of each other. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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A(n) _______ is a course of action that does not violate accepted principles governing the conduct of businesspeople. |
| | A) | business strategy |
| | B) | ethical strategy |
| | C) | acceptable strategy |
| | D) | moral strategy |
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A company that simply follows local laws in a country where there are inadequate safeguards for employees can be said to be acting |
| | A) | according to local business norms |
| | B) | ethically |
| | C) | in a morally responsible manner |
| | D) | in a ethically irresponsible manner |
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Which of the following is not a means of ensuring that ethical abuses do not occur with regard to a company's employment practices? |
| | A) | auditing a foreign subsidiary or subcontractor on a regular basis to ensure they are meeting established standards of behavior |
| | B) | establishing minimal acceptable standards that safeguards the basic rights and dignity of an employee |
| | C) | following all local business practices to ensure compliance with local regulations |
| | D) | taking corrective action when a standards are not met by subcontractors or subsidiaries |
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The _______ failed to break down South Africa's apartheid regime in the late 1970s and 1980s. |
| | A) | ethics standards of 1972 |
| | B) | antiapartheid laws |
| | C) | New South Africa Policy |
| | D) | Sullivan principles |
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When a resource that is held in common by all, but owned by no one, is overused by individuals, resulting in its degradation is a phenomenon known as |
| | A) | Hardin's obloquy |
| | B) | environmental tragedy |
| | C) | the tragedy of the commons |
| | D) | environmental degradation |
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
| | A) | outlaws the paying of bribes to foreign government officials to gain business |
| | B) | amended the law of the Tragedy of the Commons |
| | C) | was accepted by the OECD |
| | D) | obliged member states to make the bribery of a foreign public official a criminal offense |
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The Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions |
| | A) | outlaws the paying of bribes to foreign government officials to gain business |
| | B) | amended the law of the Tragedy of the Commons |
| | C) | was rejected by the OECD |
| | D) | obliged member states to make the bribery of a foreign public official a criminal offense |
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
| | A) | excludes speed money, but incorporates facilitating payments |
| | B) | was rejected by the OECD |
| | C) | has proved to be detrimental for many small businesses that are now at a competitive disadvantage |
| | D) | disallows the use of bribes to gain business |
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A company that considers the social consequences of economic actions when it makes its business decisions, and tries to make decisions that will have positive social and economic consequences is said to have |
| | A) | moral responsibility |
| | B) | social responsibility |
| | C) | social morals |
| | D) | business ethics |
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When a firm faces a situation in which none of the available alternatives seems ethically acceptable, the firm is facing |
| | A) | an ethical question |
| | B) | the Sullivan principle |
| | C) | an ethical dilemma |
| | D) | moral uncertainty |
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Ethical behavior is determined by |
| | A) | personal ethics, organization culture, realistic performance goals, leadership, decision-making processes |
| | B) | unrealistic performance goals, personal ethics, organization culture, leadership, decision-making processes |
| | C) | decision-making processes, national culture, unrealistic performance goals, personal ethics, leadership |
| | D) | national culture, realistic performance goals, leadership, decision-making processes, personal ethics |
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Expatriate managers often experience _______ to violate their personal ethics. |
| | A) | greater pressure than usual |
| | B) | about the same pressure as usual |
| | C) | less pressure than usual |
| | D) | no pressure |
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______ is not a common approach to business ethics. |
| | A) | the naïve immoralist |
| | B) | the Friedman doctrine |
| | C) | Hardin's tragedy |
| | D) | cultural relativism |
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_________ rejects the idea that universal notions of morality transcend different cultures. |
| | A) | the Friedman doctrine |
| | B) | cultural relativism |
| | C) | the naïve immoralist |
| | D) | the righteous moralist |
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An American firm that pays the same wages to its employees in Bangladesh as it does its employees in Spokane is probably following the _______ approach to business ethics. |
| | A) | righteous moralist |
| | B) | Friedman doctrine |
| | C) | naïve immoralist |
| | D) | cultural relativism |
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The utilitarian and Kantian approaches to business ethics were developed in |
| | A) | the 16th and 17th centuries |
| | B) | the 17th and 18th centuries |
| | C) | the 18th and 19th centuries |
| | D) | the 20th and 21st centuries |
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Utilitarianism is committed to the ______ of the good and the ______ of harm. |
| | A) | minimization, minimization |
| | B) | minimization, maximization |
| | C) | maximization, minimization |
| | D) | maximization, maximization |
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Managers that are weighing the costs and benefits of an action before deciding whether to pursue it are probably following a ______ approach to business ethics. |
| | A) | Kantian |
| | B) | righteous moralist |
| | C) | naïve immoralist |
| | D) | utilitarian |
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According to _______, employing people in sweatshops, making them work long hours for low pay in poor work conditions, is a violation of ethics. |
| | A) | Kantian ethics |
| | B) | utilitarianism |
| | C) | the Friedman doctrine |
| | D) | cultural relativism |
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A company that has explicitly articulated values that emphasize ethical behavior has drafted |
| | A) | an ethics statement |
| | B) | a code of ethics |
| | C) | a policy on corporate ethics |
| | D) | a corporate ethics mission statement |
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