Question 1

The unspoken understanding among employees of what is and is not acceptable behavior is called:

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Ethical climate

Question 2

Which ethical criterion is described by the idea that a company should strive for efficiency?

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Egoism

Question 3

All of the following are commitments of the Principles of the Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants except:

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Due Process

Question 4

Building ethical safeguards into a company\'s everyday routines is called:

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Institutionalizing ethics

Question 5

A company that channels employee behavior in a lawful direction by emphasizing the threat of detection and punishment is:

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Operating under the compliance-based approach

Question 6

Integrity-based ethics programs:

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Combines concern for the law with an emphasis on employee responsibility.

Question 7

Ethics policies typically cover all of the following issues except:

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Encouraging discriminatory personnel practices.

Question 8

Typically, ethics training is offered to:

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Managers

Question 9

The critical component in installing an effective ethics program is:

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The integration of various ethics safeguards into a comprehensive program.

Question 10

Recipients of the corporate ethics awards show that:

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Firms can be financially successful and ethically focused.

Question 11

refers to putting an organization\'s commitment to social and environmental responsibility into practice worldwide, not only locally or regionally.

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Global Corporate Citizenship

Question 12

Good corporate citizens:

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AOB Strive, balance and protect

Question 13

Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility gives awards for excellence in:

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AOB Environmental, Poverty, and Education

Question 14

According to Philip H. Mirvis\' and Bradley K. Googins\' model, how many stages are there of global corporate citizenship?

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Five

Question 15

Companies see the need to build more coherent initiatives as they move into the:

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Integrated stage

Question 16

Managers responding to the needs of the local education system as a normal or routine aspect of its operations is an example of an organization in the:

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Transforming stage

Question 17

Which of the following organizations have developed standards to judge corporate performance?

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International Organisation for Standards

Question 18

Global audit social standards concentrate on:

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AOB Internally Firm, Externally environment, Externally stakeholders

Question 19

Financial, social and environmental results are reported together in a firm\'s:

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Triple bottom line report

Question 20

Government\'s role is to create and enforce laws that:

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Balance the relationship between business and society.

Question 21

Governments hold the power to:

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Grant or refuse permission for many types of business activity.

Question 22

Cooperation between business and government often occurs when:

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They encounter a common problem or enemy.

Question 23

When a government orders companies not to conduct business in another country because of a war, human rights violations, or lack of a legitimate government; these orders are called:

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Economic sanctions.

Question 24

Public policy is a basic set of goals, plans and actions undertaken by:

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A government.

Question 25

Past decisions of the courts, the original basis for the U.S. legal system, are called:

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Common laws.

Question 26

Public policy tools involve a combination of:

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Incentives and penalties

Question 27

By raising and lowering the interest rates at which private banks borrow money from the government, the Federal Reserve Bank:

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AB Influences money supply and size of dollar

Question 28

The primary way of accomplishing public policy is through:

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Regulation

Question 29

Deregulation is often:

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A politically popular idea

Question 30

Public backlash in the Treyvon Martin case in which a black teenager was shot to death and his assailant defended his actions by claiming protection under Florida\'s \"stand your ground\" law prompted:

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Businesses to distance themselves from the American Legislative Exchange Council

Question 31

Public policies and government regulations are shaped by:

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AOB Business, Special Interest, Government

Question 32

A corporate political strategy does not:

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Determine the legal limits allowed for campaign financing.

Question 33

To influence government policymakers\' actions, an information strategy involves:

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Business leaders speaking before government policymakers.

Question 34

A common tactic in a financial-incentive political strategy is:

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Political contributions.

Question 35

The information strategy tool most used by business is:

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Lobbying

Question 36

Businesses promote an information strategy by inviting government leaders to:

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AOB Visit, attend, speeches

Question 37

According to the textbook, under the existing U.S. campaign contributions law, individuals can contribute:

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Up to $2,500 to any candidate per election.

Question 38

According to the textbook, under the existing U.S. campaign contribution law, individuals:

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Can give more to PACs, and PACs can give more to each candidate depending on their number of contributors.

Question 39

Trade associations are:

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Coalitions of companies in the same or related industries.

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