MGMT 487: CH9

Quick Brakes has a person designated to test its products to ensure that they are safe. This person is an example of which standard of due care? -Design -Quality control -Production -Notification

-Quality control

Kinzu Motors take great care in testing cars before putting them on the market. What theory does Kinzu have regarding an employer's liability for product safety? -Utilitarian -Contractual -Due care -Strict liability

Due care

The ruling in the Johnson Controls case determined which of the following? -Employers have the right to make the decision about risks to their employee's fetuses -Only the courts are able to determine whether fetal protection policies are justified -Employees have the right to make their own decisions about the risk to their fetuses -Only a jury can determine whether fetal policies are justified

Employees have the right to make their own decisions about the risk to their fetuses

What is a key difference between health hazards and safety hazards? -Health hazards cause illness; safety hazards cause bodily harm -Health hazards are compensable; safety hazards are not compensatable -Health hazards involve machinery; safety hazards involve dangerous substances -Health hazards are the employer's responsibility; safety hazards are the employee's responsibility

Health hazards cause illness; safety hazards cause bodily harm

Which substances can damage genetic material before conception takes place? -Mutagens -Fetotoxins -Teratogens -Carcinogens

Mutagens

Kristin is injured in an accident when the brakes in her car fail. She sues the car manufacturer, and the courts rule in her favor. This situation is an example of which theory of product safety? -Strict liability -Due care -Contractual -Kantian

Strict liability

What is a key difference between the argument that a sex-based policy is serving a legitimate business purpose and the argument that a person's sex is bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)? -The BFOQ argument may only be used for female employees, and a legitimate business purpose can apply to either sex -The BFOQ argument concerns possible harm to a fetus, and a legitimate business purpose concerns the ability to work -The BFOQ argument is harder to prove than serving a legitimate business purpose -The BFOQ is a stronger argument than serving a legitimate business purpose

The BFOQ is a stronger argument than serving a legitimate business purpose

When Sheila takes a job at an auto parts warehouse, she undergoes an intensive training about workplace safety. By providing this training, which duty is the employer fulfilling in order to uphold employees' right to know? -The duty to produce new information -The duty to communicate information -The duty to seek out existing information -The duty to reveal information

The duty to communicate information

What is the relationship between the right to refuse hazardous work and the right to a safe and health workplace? The right to refuse hazardous work... -can substitute for the right for a safe and healthy workplace -is defined only by what employers consider to be a safe and health workplace -is not a true right, unlike the right for a safe and healthy workplace -must be in place to have the right for a safe and healthy workplace

The right to refuse hazardous work must be in place to have the right for a safe and healthy workplace

Before the passage of the Occupational Safety Act, who was primarily responsible for regulating occupational health and safety? -Municipalities -The federal government -The states -Employers

The states

Theo cannot pay his bills with a minimum wage job, so he accepts a dangerous job as a coal miner, which is the highest-paying job he can find near where he lives. This decision represents which criticism of the voluntary risk assumption? -The mining company lacked the ability to effectively reduce harm -Theo lacked information about the job hazards -The pay for dangerous work does not always the risks -Theo's choice was not truly free

Theo's choice was not truly free

When do employees have the right to refuse hazardous work? -When employees believe there is a high risk of harm -When the safety of the worker has not been proven -When employees they will be terminated -When employees believe there is a chance of harm

When the employees believe there is a high risk of harm

Which statement about worker notification, or employees' right to know about workplace hazards, is true? -Workers do not need to know about all hazards in order to free choose to accept risks -Bargaining over information is likely to result in improving worker health and safety -Workers who are educated about hazards will be better able to protect themselves -Employers must make the workplace safer to attract workers willing to accept risks

Workers who are educated about hazards will be better able to protect themselves

Big Donut Tires has a policy that prohibits women from working in the rubber factory due to the risk of harm to fetuses. If Salina sues Big Donut Tires, what is the likely result, and why? -No change policy, does not force female employees to be sterilize -No change policy, under Title VII is not considered discriminatory -Yes change policy, discriminatory under Title VII -Yes change policy, only higher women who agree to be sterilized

Yes change policy, discriminatory under Title VII

The __________ theory views buyers and sellers as having both a defined and understood relationship. -Kantian -contractual -strict liability -due care

contractual