BA 300, SDSU Business Ethics EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) according to the authors of the text, which of the following statements is or are true about the norms governing ethical behavior in business - Correct Answers ✅a. there is more agreement than disagreement about what the ethical norms governing business behaviors should be
Z: On May 23, 2013, The Wall Street Journal published an
article entitled "How Could a .. That School Exams?" about how parents should address cheating by their young children.One parent was quoted as saying she discouraged her children from cheating by telling them that "cheating files in the face of values of our family and the rules of the school". If her children do not cheat, based on what she told them, the children would be behaving in line with - Correct Answers ✅a. level II (conventional) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Z: In the context of ethical decision-making in business, the
authors of the text argue that the decision-maker: - Correct
Answers ✅c. should take into consideration the broad interests of all of those affected by the decision, including the community in which the company does business
Z: In an April 1, 2012 interview in the New York Times,
Charlotte Beers, former head of advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather, said she has observed that people can change when
they become managers: "When you have some power, you
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BA 300, SDSU Business Ethics EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) and you don't want to do that. It's dangerous. It's very addictive to be given some power," Ms. Beers observation is
confirmed by: - Correct Answers ✅b. the central lesson of
the Zimbardo Prison Experiment
Z: In a May 2013 interview, in Inc. Magazine, Tim Westergren,
the founder of Pandora Radio was asked what kind of political party he would start if he could. Mr. Westergren answered "A party based on the 'veil of ignorance' theory". According to Dr. Lori Ryan, how did John Rawls use the veil of ignorance, which Rawls conceived, in his theory of justice? - Correct Answers ✅a. as a thought experiment that explains why someone unaware of the characteristics he would choose an ethical decision-making rule favoring the least advantaged
Z: One of the eight steps in ethical decision making is to think
creatively about potential actions. The text cites the example of Cummins Engine Company which resolved the problem of local children cutting through a wire fence on company
property and stealing valuable equipment by: - Correct
Answers ✅d. making classrooms available on the company site since there weren't enough classrooms at the local school according to the text, in the age of social networking, a
person's reputation for integrity in business is: - Correct
Answers ✅c. especially important since news of bad business can reach a broad audience in seconds 2 / 4
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Z: One scholar has observed that some people believe that it
is ethically appropriate for business executives to have lots of freedom to make high-risk business decisions without too much government interference. "Their view is that the fraudulent executives are bad apples in a basically sweet barrel", according to the scholar, what ethical decision-rule most closely matches this view? - Correct Answers ✅d.Nozick's Rights Theory
Z: The text says the culpability score assigned by the Federal
Organizational Sentencing Guidelines in a given case: -
Correct Answers ✅a. is designed to reflect the level of moral blameworthiness of an organization for its conduct and influences the level of punishment the organization will receive.
Z: On Oct. 6, 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a
recent study in which hundreds on financial planners were asked to evaluate conflict-of-interest rules for doctors. The financial planners favored barring doctors from accepting free meals and expensive educational trips from drug companies, yet said restricting financial planners from receiving the same kinds of benefits from investment companies that sought to do business with the planners would be unecessarily burdensome. One of the study researchers said "Each of us tends to think that we are much more fair and impartial than 3 / 4
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other people are". the study illustrated: - Correct Answers
✅b. the illusion of superiority
Z: the text says that a supervisor who tries to get
subordinates to follow the ethical standards expected in the
workplace: - Correct Answers ✅d. should be viewed as a
part of natural management process of providing clear and international guidance on what is considered appropriate behavior in the paric workplace
Z: On Jan. 20, 2013, the NY times ran a story about a new
kind of beer hall where the proceeds go to charity instead of the owner. In one such pub in Houston, patrons got one vote per drink as to which charity should get the following month's profits. One group in Portland is considering opening a worker-run collectively managed pub run by and for "people who resist oppression on all levels" and fight for "unrepresented and unwaged workers". the ethical philosophy in business decision-making driving the opening
of the portland pub is MOST in line with: - Correct Answers
✅c. Rawls' Theory of Justice
Z: Most adults will carry out an authority figure's orders, in
business and other settings, even if these orders are contrary to their personal beliefs about what's right. That is the central
message of: - Correct Answers ✅c. The Milgram
experiment
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