Module Quiz 3

By law, the financial records of publicly held companies are required to be:

Audited by a certified professional accounting firm.

Mature adults typically base their ethical reasoning on broad principles and relationships such as:

Human rights and constitutional guarantees of human dignity. Universal principles of justice. Customs and traditions show by their peers.

Scholars found that spirituality:

Positively affects employee and organizational performance

A giant step is taken toward improving ethical performance throughout the company when:

Senior-level managers signal to employees that they believe ethics is a high priority.

A conception of right and wrong is:

The definition of ethics.

The critical component in installing an effective ethics program is:

The integration of various ethics safeguards into a comprehensive program.

When the benefits of an action outweigh its costs, the action is considered ethically preferred according to:

Utilitarian reasoning

The reason(s) behind the uncertainty of an ethical or unethical decision is (are) that different people and groups:

May honestly and genuinely use different sources of information. May rank various rights in different ways. May not share the same meaning of justice.

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

Ethical climate.

Which of the following examples best illustrate an ethics issue based on cross-cultural contradictions?

Legally marketing a pesticide abroad that has been banned in the U.S