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Which of the following refers to the code of moral principles and values that govern behaviors with respect to what is right and wrong?

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Ethics

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An organization's decision to produce a new product is in the

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domain of free choice.

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A new drug has not been approved by the FDA to sell in the U.S. because further testing is needed. The company has a chance to sell its product in another country immediately to start recovering the costs of R & D and production three years ahead of time. This example places the decision in which of the categories from the text?

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The ethical domain

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Which of the following is a(n) is the individual who must make an ethical choice in an organization?

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The moral agent

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Sharon is a manager at Softest Tissue Corporation. She is faced with an interesting problem. One of her employees has been cheating the company out of expense money. Sharon must decide whether or not to fire this employee. In this role, Sharon is acting as

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a moral agent.

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The assumption that "If it's not illegal, it must be ethical," ignores which of the following?

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Domain of ethics

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A normative approach to ethical decision making

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uses various approaches to describe guiding values for decisions.

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Which approach is the ethical concept that moral behaviors produce the greatest good for the greatest number?

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Utilitarian

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Robbie's Robots decided to continue operations at one plant while shutting down another. The decision was justified on the basis of what was best for the total corporation. This is an example of the

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utilitarian approach.

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Caleb is a manager at Computer-Care Company. He is expected to consider the effort of each decision alternative on all parties and select the one that optimizes the satisfaction for the greatest number of people. This is an example of the

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utilitarian approach.

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Which ethical approach are companies citing to justify their policing of employee's personal habits on and off the job, such as alcohol and tobacco consumption?

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Utilitarian approach

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The ____ ethic was the basis for the state of Oregon's decision to extend Medicaid to 400,000 previously ineligible recipients by refusing to pay for high-cost, high-risk procedures.

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utilitarian

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When everyone is pursuing self-direction, the greater good is ultimately served because people learn to accommodate each other in their own long-term interest is an example of ____.

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individualism approach

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Which of the following is NOT a normative ethics approach?

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Social responsibility approach

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The golden rule "do unto others as they would do unto you" is

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an example of the values that guide the individualism approach to ethical behavior.

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Human beings have fundamental rights and liberties that cannot be taken away by another individual's decision. This ethical decision making approach is known as the

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moral-rights approach.

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The ____ refers to the ethical concept that moral decisions are those that best maintain the rights of those people affected by them.

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moral-rights approach

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Which of the following is NOT one of the moral rights that could be considered during decision-making?

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The right to invade privacy

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____ refers to the concept that different treatment of people should not be based on arbitrary characteristics.

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Distributive justice

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Individualism is most closely related to

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free choice.

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____ to ethical decision-making is consistent with due process, free consent, privacy, freedom of conscience and free speech.

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Moral-rights approach

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Sexual harassment is unethical because it violates an important part of which approach to ethical behavior?

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The moral-rights approach

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The ethical decision approach that requires persons to be guided by standards of equity, fairness and impartiality is the

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justice approach.

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A situation that arises when all alternative choices or behaviors have been deemed undesirable because of the potentially negative ethical consequences, making it difficult to distinguish right from wrong, is considered

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an ethical dilemma.

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The moral rights approach that deals with performing experimental treatment on unconscience trauma patient is the

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right of free consent.

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Which of the following is not a concern to managers under the justice approach?

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Obstructive justice

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Disk Replacement Services has just completed a procedure manual to handle employee grievances. One of the main criteria is to make it clear to employees that rules will be administered fairly and consistently. Disk Replacement operates on

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the procedural justice approach.

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Which of these refers to procedural justice?

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The concept that rules should be clearly stated and consistently and impartially enforced

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The concept that the party responsible should compensate individuals for the cost of their injuries is referred to as

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compensatory justice.

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The thinking underlying the domain of ____ is the closest to the justice approach.

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law

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Most of the laws guiding human resource management are based on the

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justice approach.

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____ is NOT included in the model of personal moral development described in your text

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All of these are included in the model

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In what stage of personal moral development is a person mostly concerned with external rewards and personal consequences of an action?

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Preconventional

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Most people have learned to conform to expectations of good behavior expected by colleagues, family, friends, and society. They are in what stage of moral development?

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Conventional

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Which of these best illustrates the preconventional stage of moral development?

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What am I going to get from making this decision?

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The conventional stage of moral development is best described by which of the following statements?

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Everybody else is doing it, so it must be okay.

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The ____ leadership style matches with the preconventional level of personal moral development.

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autocratic

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____ matches with the preconventional level of personal moral development.

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Task accomplishment

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Which of these employee behaviors matches with the conventional level of personal moral development?

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Work group collaboration

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Which of the following stages is the stage of personal moral development in which an individual develops an internal set of standards and values?

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Principled

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People making decisions based on an internal set of beliefs that has more meaning to them than the expectations of others

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are in the principled level of moral development.

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____ matches with the postconventional level of personal moral development.

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Servant leadership

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Which of these employee behaviors matches with the postconventional level of personal moral development?

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Empowered employees, full participation

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The great majority of managers operate at the

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conventional level.

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Only about ____ percent of American adults reach the level-three stage of moral development.

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twenty

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Regarding the levels of personal moral development, the majority of managers operate at the ____ level.

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conventional

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MANAGER'S SHOPTALK in Chapter 5 suggests all of the following when challenging the boss on ethical issues EXCEPT:

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begin the meeting by taking the floor

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The obligation of organization management to make decisions and take actions that will enhance the welfare and interests of society as well as the organization is referred to as

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social responsibility.

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Which of these is true about the policy a bank adopts toward its investing of depositor's money?

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It is an expression of its philosophy of social responsibility.

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Any group within or outside the organization that has a stake in the organization's performance is called

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a stakeholder.

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Primary stakeholders of an organization include

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all of these.

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All of the following are examples of special interest groups EXCEPT

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courts

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What type of a stakeholder would a nature conservation group be for a paper manufacturing company?

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Special interest group

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With a philosophy of ____, managers weave environmental and social concerns into every strategic decision, revise policies and procedures to support these efforts and goals.

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sustainability

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____ is economic development that generates wealth and meets the needs of their current generation while focusing on future generations.

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Sustainability

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Which of the following concepts argues that organizations can find innovative ways to create wealth at the same time they are preserving natural resources

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Sustainability

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According to the book's model for judging corporate social performance, social responsibility is divided into what into four sections?

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Discretionary, legal, economic, and ethical

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____ is considered a decision that enables an individual or company to benefit at society's expense.

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An unethical behavior

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____ includes behavior that is not always written down and may actually not serve an organization's bottom-line.

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Ethical responsibility

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With respect to appropriate corporate behavior, what society deems ____ as important.

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legal responsibility

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Which of the following responsibilities is purely voluntary and is guided by a company's desire to make social contributions not mandated by economics, law, or ethics?

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Discretionary

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____ is the responsibility that goes beyond societal expectations to contribute to the community welfare.

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Discretionary responsibility

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____ means that managers are honest and trustworthy, fair in their dealings with employees and customers, and behave ethically in both their personal and professional lives.

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Ethical leadership

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A code of ____ is a formal statement of the company's values concerning ethics and social issues.

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ethics

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Statements that define fundamental values and reference organizational responsibilities, products and employees are often called ____.

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principle-based

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An example of an ethical structure is

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chief ethics officer.

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When an official is given the responsibility of overseeing all aspects of ethics and legal compliance. S/he is referred to as

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a chief ethics officer.

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Which of these is the disclosure by an employee of an illegal activity?

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Whistle-blowing

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____ is not part of the structures and systems pillar of an ethical organization.

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Rewarding ethical behavior

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The relationship between social responsibility and financial performance has been shown to be ____.

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positive

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Anne Chinoda, top executive at Florida Blood Centers, is under pressure to resign because she took a $71,000 pay increase just months before she laid off 42 employees. Chinoda's decision lies in the

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domain of ethics.

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A recent poll found that ________ percent of people surveyed say corporate America's moral compass is pointing in the wrong direction.

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76

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When the USS Indianapolis sank after being torpedoed, one Navy pilot disobeyed orders and risked is life to save men who were being picked off by land sharks. The Navy pilot was operating from the ________ level of moral development.

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postconventional

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The profit-maximizing view of economic responsibility is advocated by ________.

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Milton Friedman

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Of the following, which may whistle-blowers suffer?

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All of the above

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Examples of unethical behavior toward ________ include a hostile work environment and violations of health and safety rules.

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employees

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The decision by ABC International to downsize and reduce its labor force is in the

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domain of free choice.

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