Business Ethics Final
The law treats sexual harassment as a form of
sexual discrimination
according to the philosopher Joel Feinberg,
the rights of future generations are contingent upon those people coming into existence.
an early 1970's government study (work in america) identified three chief sources of worker dissatisfaction. which of the following is one of those sources?
the rigidity of rules and regulations
groups of 18th century skilled artisans formed secret societies for two basic reasons. which of the following is one of those reasons?
to equalize their relationship with their employees.
a trade secret
can be almost any info not generally known if it is valuable to its possessor and treated confidentially
Poly Graph Tests
can produce false positives
many major employers routinely monitor the performance of their employees through the computers and telephones they use. The one check they can do is
check the number of keystrokes that word processors enter during the day.
fair personnel policies and decisions must be based on criteria that are clear, job related, and
equally applied
as they try and fit into a work world dominated by white men, women and minorities can be disadcanteged by
falce preconceptions, sterotypes, and prejudiced attitudes
chose the factual precept concerning wages:
a fair wage is whatever an employee is willing to accept
U.S. companies have a history of paying off foregn officials for business favors. such acts were declared illigal by the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
which act provides sweeping new legal protection for employees who report possible securities fraud, making it unlawful for companies to discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against" them?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
the proper approach to promote safety is found in the "Hidden culture" which is
a culture that is proactively oriented toward safety.
Since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1994, employers must make "______ ______" for disabled workers.
Reasonable accomodation
in 1997 case US v.s. Hagan, the supreme court found that hagan
had misappropriated confidential information
True statment concerning court cases about discrimination
in the U of Mich cases (gratz and Grutter) the supreme court upheld moderate, flexible affirmative action programs
Ecology refers to the science of
interrelationships among organisms and their environments
cost benefit analysis
involves value judgments and factual uncetainties
some environmental regulations (like forbidding the burning of coal in cities) benefit each and every one of us because the air we all breathe is cleaner. if a company ignores the regulation and burns coal, while others obey the regulation, then the company
is being a freerider
William F. Baxter addresses environmental ethics by noting
judgments about environmental problems ought to be people-oriented.
which of these is a valid reasoning for not hiring a potenital employee?
lac of experience
According to the textbook a ---- vegetarian rejects eating meat based on moral grounds
moral
conflicts of interest are what kind of problem
moral
privacy
must be respected if we are to function as completer, self-governing agents
per the textbook, what is the most comon reason that people leave their jobs
poor relationship with supervising manager
according to professor norman bowie, which of the following factors is primarily relevant to the motivation of whistle blower?
public interest morally outweighs loyalty to the organization.
when investigators sent equally qualified young white and blaeck men- all of them articulate and conventionally dresesd- to apply for entry level jobs in chicago and D.C. the resultw clearly showed
racial discriminination against young african american men
today most large corporations not only accept the necessity of affirmative action but also find that ____ benefits whey they make themselves more diverse
the bottom line
according to david ewing
the corporate invasion of employees'civil rights is rampant