Social Resp & Ethics Ch 5

All of the following values are present in most ethical decisions except:

Be kind

A purchasing agent directing her company's orders to a firm from which she received a valuable gift, is an example of:

Conflict of interest

A conception of right and wrong is:

The definition of ethics

Which statement characterizes the moral reasoning typically found in a child?

"I'll let you play with my toy if I play with yours."

According to a 2017 survey, Americans hold a dim view of:

Business executives.

As an additional employee benefit to promote spirituality, companies have begun to provide employees with the services of:

Chaplains.

As business becomes increasingly global:

Cross-cultural contradictions will increase.

Cross-cultural contradictions arise due to

Differences between home and host countries' ethical standards.

n the case LafargeHolcim and ISIS in Syria, a utilitarian benefit of keeping the plant open was:

Employees received paychecks.

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporations are required to:

Have executives vouch for the accuracy of a firm's financial reports.

Why should business be ethical, according to Figure 5.1?

Most people want to act in ways that are consistent with their own sense of right and wrong. Ethical behavior protects business firms from abuse by unethical employees and competitors. Society's stakeholders expect it from businesses.

According to an annual Gallup poll, which occupation was consistently ranked the highest for honesty and ethics?

Nurses

At the core of rights reasoning is the belief that:

Respecting others is the essence of human rights.

People everywhere depend on ethical systems to tell them whether their actions are:

Right or wrong.

A recent study found that, compared to the 1980s, managers today place what importance on moral values, such as honesty and forgiveness?

Slightly more important.

Businesses are expected to be ethical in their relationships with:

Stockholders. Customers Competitors

One factor in determining the moral intensity of an ethical issue is how quickly the consequences take effect, a factor that is known as:

Temporal immediacy.

Which of the following is not true about justice reasoning?

The reasoner is interested in the net value of benefits.

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

Utilitarian reasoning.

People ethical beliefs come from

their religious background, family, education

A high magnitude of consequences that increases the moral intensity of an ethical issue is best exemplified by which of the following?

A food product contaminated with salmonella was distributed to stores.

A just or fair ethical decision occurs when

Benefits and burdens are distributed in fair proportions

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

Both of these answers are correct: Human rights and constitutional guarantees of human dignity; and universal principles of justice.

An ethics issue based on cross-cultural contradictions is best illustrated by which example?

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

Aristotle argued

Moral virtue is a mean between two virtues

Scholars found that spirituality affects employee and organizational performance in what way?

Positively

Under the U.S. Corporate Sentencing Guidelines, if a firm has developed a strong ethics program, corporate executives found guilty of criminal activity may have their sentence:

Reduced.

The main drawback to utilitarian reasoning is that:

It is difficulty to accurately measure both costs and benefits.