Ch 6. Quiz -Leadership

responsibility to society

Corporate social responsibility centers on a firm's

vehicle for putting values into action.

Ethics can be considered the

corporate social performance and corporate financial performance feed and reinforce each other.

The virtuous cycle in relation to social responsibility suggests that

work with the supplier to improve working conditions.

When faced with a supplier who uses unsafe working conditions, a socially responsible alternative is to

senior managers become ethics leaders.

When senior management provides strategic leadership for ethics,

Creating a pleasant workplace

Which one of the following is the clearest example of socially responsible behavior on the part of a business firm?

use as much renewable energy as possible at the company.

An example of an executive leader helping sustain the environment would be to

attempt to do the most good for the most people.

A leader at the postconventional level of moral development is likely to

all of these choices.

A major problem noted with extreme unethical behavior in the executive suite is that such behavior has

the leader's level of greed, gluttony, and avarice.

A major source of individual differences in ethics and morality among leaders is

place company interests over personal interests.

A practical suggestions for business leaders to behave ethically is to

pay attention to all stakeholders.

A principle of ethical and moral leadership is to

reward people who have performed well and behaved ethically.

A recommended approach to promoting ethical behavior throughout the organization is to

make public highly unethical behavior by government employees.

A unit of the U. S. Federal Government publishes on the Internet an Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure. The purpose of the document is to

wants everybody to benefit.

An authority cited in the leadership text argues that ethics is at the center of leadership because the ethical leader

is not obviously ethical or blatantly unethical.

An ethical screen is used primarily when facing a decision that

bookkeeper who told a journalist about fraudulent accounting in the company

An example of a whistleblower (in relation to ethics) would be a(n)

rationalizing.

Chief financial officer Justin takes himself and his family on an Asian vacation using the company jet. He excuses his behavior by stating, "My family and I were spreading good will around the world for the company." Justin appears to be

separating right from wrong.

Ethics deals mostly with

What would you tell your child, sibling, or young relative to do?

Which one of the following questions in an ethical screen deals with the principle of reversibility?