BOMI - Ethics Is Good Business Questions A

BOMI - Ethics Is Good Business (Questions & A+ Answers)

All of the following were major ethical dilemmas of the 1990s except:

• unsafe work practices in third world countries.
• increased corporate liability for personal damage.
• financial mismanagement and fraud.
• employee militancy. Right Ans - employee militancy

All of the following are major ethical dilemmas of the 2000s except:

• cybercrime.
• privacy issues/data mining.
• deceptive advertising.
• intellectual property theft. Right Ans - deceptive advertising

In response to ethical breaches by organizations, the U.S. federal government

in 1991 added a chapter to the:

• Legal Code of Business Ethics.
• Corporate Interest in Ethics Guidelines.
• Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
• U.S. Code of Ethics for Government Service. Right Ans - Federal

Sentencing Guidelines All of the following are potential outcomes of unethical business decisions

except:

• bad public relations.
• increased corporate transparency.
• increased government scrutiny.
• public reluctance to use a company's products or services. Right Ans -

increased corporate transparency By valuing ethics, an organization promotes and rewards all of the following

except:

• honesty.
• punctuality.
• fairness
• integrity. Right Ans - punctuality 1 / 2

(True/ False) The role of civil rights in the workplace was a major ethical dilemma faced in the 1960s. Right Ans - True (True/ False) Research, newspaper, and magazine articles have suggested that an organization's bottom line is strengthened when the business acts in an ethical, legal, and socially responsible manner. Right Ans - True (True/ False) Boards of directors and managers are not expected to take responsibility for overseeing and managing compliance and ethics programs.Right Ans - False (True/ False) Federal guidelines are the only reason that an organization needs to consider its ethical practices. Right Ans - False (True/ False) According to the National Business Ethics Survey, ethical problems have been basically eradicated from the workplace by the 1991 Federal Sentencing Guidelines. Right Ans - False

The foundation of the Western ethical tradition is the:

• Torah.
• New Testament.
• Ten Commandments.
• works of Socrates. Right Ans - Ten Commandments.

All of the following are distinctions that can be drawn between religion and

morality except:

• people do good for nonreligious reasons such as altruism or a fear of

punishment.

• moral instructions allow for bad deeds as long as they are done in the name

of religion.

• people do good out of habit, or as a result of their upbringing.

moral instructions from religions can be general and vague. Right Ans - moral instructions allow for bad deeds as long as they are done in the name of religion

A system or code of morals that provides a code for living is referred to as:

• values.
• integrity.
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