Chapter 5 Ethics Homework

________ arguments suggest that improving working conditions beyond the level required by the law and necessary to maximize employee productivity will reduce profits and are therefore not appropriate.

Friedman's

Which of the following persons believed that people should be treated as ends and never purely as means to the ends of others?

Immanuel Kant

________ approaches to business ethics are raised by business ethics scholars primarily to demonstrate that they offer inappropriate ethical decision making in a multinational enterprise.

Straw Man

Which of the following was designed to allow GM to operate ethically in South Africa as long as the company did not obey the apartheid laws in its own South African operations?

Sullivan Principles

Expatriate managers may experience more than the usual degree of pressure to violate their personal ethics because of which of the following?

They may be based in a culture that does not place the same value on ethical norms important in the manager's home country.

The products of Carmen Stores, an international sports apparel chain, are manufactured in sweatshop factories in China. According to the company president, using sweatshop labor offers a means of livelihood to children and young adults, as well as supplies good quality apparel to customers at a lower cost. She asserts that the actions of the company are justified because it results in the benefit of the maximum number of people. The company president's argument is based on which of the following ethical viewpoints?

utilitarian approach to business ethics

An international U.S.-based company sets up a production unit in a developing country with poor environmental regulations. This contributes to the

global tragedy of the commons.

A British firm that sets up production units in China is accused of releasing untreated chemical waste into water bodies. The manager of the firm defends the firm stating that, factories in China set up by French and American firms also release untreated chemical waste into water bodies. What approach to business ethics is the manager using?

naive immoralist

Child labor is permitted and widely employed in Country X. A multinational company entering Country X decides to employ minors in its subsidiary, even though it is against the multinational's home-country ethics. Which of the following approaches to business ethics would justify the actions of the multinational company?

cultural relativism

According to the ________, even if a manager of a multinational sees that firms from other nations are not following ethical norms in a host nation, that manager should maintain the standards of the company's home country.

righteous moralist