MBA 740 Final

Which of the following is the most plausible argument FOR affirmative action?

It's necessary to breaks the cycle of keeping women and minorities locked in low paying jobs

Which of the following is the most plausible argument AGAINST affirmative action?

Violates the rights of white men to equal treatment.

Based on guidelines of employer/employee relations, which statement is true?

the traditional law of agency obliges employees to act loyally and in good faith and to carry out lawful instructions

Companies clearly have what kind of obligation to provide a work environment in which employees are free from sexual harassment?

Moral

In the videos on behavior ethics this semester one of the ideas that came up was that people tend to rationalize in order to allow themselves to lie and cheat.

Moral intent stage of process

Opponents of comparable worth insist which one of these ideas support their position?

Most women have freely chosen the lower paying occupations.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding the use of email?

Can be archived and filed for easy access

One of the best ways to get messages out to our audiences is through ___ media which is free and tends to be more credible

Earned media

Which is the best argument for legally protecting trade secrets?

Employees who disclose trade secrets violate confidentiality

"Puffery" is an example of which of the following deceptive or misleading advertising techniques?

Exaggeration

The appropriate guidelines for testing potential employees is

Griggs v. Duke Power Company, which prohibits employers from requiring a high school education as a prerequisite for employment or promotion without demonstrable evidence that the associated skills relate directly to job performance

Which of the following is an example of price gouging?

New York hotel tripling its room prices after 9/11

Which of the following is an example of sexual harassment?

a female employer suggesting sexual offers to a male employee

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

a law that prohibits U.S. corporations from making illegal payments to public officials of foreign governments to obtain business rights or to enhance their business dealings in those countries

According to the legal doctrine of strict product liability

a manufacturer need not be negligent to be held liable for a defective product.

To answer the question of who determines what is objectionable or offensive in sexual harassment, the courts use what kind of hypothetical person?

a reasonable person

Which of the following is a correct statement about union activities?

a sympathetic strike occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others

Which statement is true about the hiring and employment process?

according to common law, unless there is an explicit contractual provision to the contrary, every employment is employment "at will"

Critics of advertising contend that

advertising rarely gives consumers much useful information.

Inside traders orginarily defend their actions by claiming that they don't injure

anyone

Male managers frequently assume that women

are too emotional to be good managers• lack the necessary drive to success in business• place family demands above work considerations

Employers have the right to fire an employee who perform inadequately, but they should do so

as painless as possible

A "trade secret"

can be apart of employees technical knowledge and experience skill

According to common law, to legally terminate an employee, an employer

can have any reason or no reason.

Intelligence test are designed to measure the applicants abilities in the verbal, quantitative, and ______ domains

cognitive ability test

Some writers deny that employees have any obligation to loyalty to the company, because

companies are not the kind of things that are properly objects of loalty

For years Bayer aspirin advertised that it contained "the ingredient doctors recommend most." This is an example of:

concealment of facts.

In 1987, the supreme court affirmed, in the case of Johnson v. Transportation Agency, that

considerations of sex are permissible

Before sending an email

copy your boss

A study published in the journal of the american medical association showed that postal workers who tested positive for drug use in pre-employment urine test were at least 50 percent more likely to be

fired injured, disciplined, or absent than those who tested negative

In our case study of tylenol, the company took several measures to ensure

gently encourage

Based on the video how to get serious about diversity

idk

Choose the statement that is accurate in the workplace

idk

Conflicts of interest are what kind of problem?

idk

Which of the following is FALSE?

idk

Which of the following is a good way of using an email?

idk

Whistle-blowing involves exposing activities that are

immoral

Which of these statements is true concerning court cases about discrimination?

in the University of Michigan cases (Gratz and Grutter), the Supreme Court upheld moderate, flexible affirmative action programs

Which of the following is an accurate statement about employment law in the workplace?

it's illegal to fire workers because of union membership

Which of theses is a valid reasoning for not hiring a potential employee?

lack of experience

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

makes it illegal for consecutive to retaliate against an employee who reports violations of the law

Legal paternalism is the doctrine that the law

may justifiably restrict the freedom of the individual for his or her own good.

Internal communications is an important tool for maintaining connections and helping people/organizations accomplish their goals. Unfortunately communication often overlook this step

measuring results

Which of the following is TRUE?

media sensationalism and political posturing can get in the way of sensible answers to the drug problem

Conflict of interest

occur when employees' private interests are substantial enough to potentially interfere with their job duties.

The use of one's official position for what always raises moral concerns and questions?

personal gain

Advertising

persuasion to purchase, subsidize the media

Unions employ two kinds of boycotts to enforce their demands. These two kinds of boycotts are

primary and secondary

According to Galbraith's "dependence effect,"

producers use advertising to shape consumer wants.

When investigators sent equally qualified young white and black men

radical discrimination against AA men

According to David Ewing, two factors explain the absence of civil liberties and the prevalence of authoritarianism in the workplace.

rise of personal engineering and professional development

Based on the article why do we consume so much?

self-explanatory

Whistle-blowers are only human beings, not saints, and they sometimes have their own

self-serving agenda

What should a female employee do if she encounters sexual harassment?

she should try to document it by keeping a record of what has occurred, who was involved, and when it happened

Which statement is accurate in its description of consumer protection?

the Consumer Product Safety Commission has the power to order recalls.

Today most large corporations not only accept the necessity of affirmative action but also find that _____ benefits when they make themselves more diverse?

the bottom line

Which of the following statements is accurate?

the law treats sexual harassment as a form of sexual discrimination

In determining the morality of giving and receiving gifts in a business situation, which of the following factors is MOST relevant?

the purpose of the gift

According to the supreme court

there's nothing improper about outsiders using information

To resolve difficult moral dilemmas, the better we understand the exact ramifications of the alternatives-the more likely we are

to make a sound moral decision

Social media is very valuable in getting messages out to our audiences. Guidelines for using it include all of the following except:

using a "hard sell"

To be successful any test used by a corporation must be

valid

Advocates of "comparable worth"

want women to be paid as much as men for jobs involving equivalent skill, effort and responsibility which of the following is an

In union terms, a direct strike occurs

when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force the employer to comply with its demands

Based on the article "are emily and brendan more employable than lakisha and jamal?" and online discussion which of the following is true

white and men are "more employable"

There are two types of sexual harassment

"quid pro quo" and "hostile work environment"

Crisis communication, by definition, means you have a problem and will have to include this group in your efforts to overcome it

Media

Insider trading is

buying and selling of stocks by business "insiders"

A whistle-blower

far from being disloyal, may be acting in the best interest of the organization.

Many americans oppose what issue because they fear it will mean in practice, illegal quotas, preferential treatment of African Americans and women, and even reverse discrimination against white men?

Affirmative action

When an employee's interest are likely to interfere with the employee's ability to exercise proper judgement

Conflict of interest

Conflicts of interest may exist when employees have financial investments

financial investments; Company policy usually determines the permissible limits of such financial interests.

A historical view indicates which of the following is correct?

Woman and Blacks are sometimes victimized

BP CEO Tony Hayward was fired a few months after the Deep Horizon Oil spill in 2010.

Wrong answer: did not plan for the oil spill

From the behavior ethics video: speaking of rationalizations

denial of victim

Of the four types of discharge, firing...

dismissal for cause( theft, breaking confidence)

Often employees and other organization members at companies like Enron or Volkswagen don't speak up because

efficacy

Since congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990

employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers

In the Harvard Business review article

engage their emotions

Fair personnel policies and decisions must be based on criteria that are clear, job related, and

equally applied