Question 1

Studies have found that facilitating payments ultimately increase the cost of doing business and as a result some companies have

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A)   embraced a "wait and see" approach.
B)   made such payments a part of normal business practice.
C)   adopted a zero-tolerance approach.
D)   agreed that such payments should only be used in the home country.
E)   asked the United Nations to legalize these payments.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 2

John Rawls argues that all economic goods and services should be distributed equally except when an unequal distribution would work to everyone's advantage.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Rawls would agree with the idea that inequalities can be justified if they

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A)   are based on home-country values.
B)   redistribute wealth and property
C)   benefit those in the highest position.
D)   are used to the advantage of everyone.
E)   benefit those in the worst position.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

When an employee says no to a supervisor because what he or she was asked to do was unethical, it exhibits the employee's

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A)   moral courage.
B)   organizational citizenship.
C)   ethical dilemma.
D)   cross-cultural literacy.
E)   cultural relativism.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 5

Silver Meteorite Inc. is a multinational company whose home country considers grease payments illegal and unethical. The company has a zero-tolerance approach toward grease payments irrespective of any of its host nations' perspectives toward such payments. In this context, Silver Meteorite Inc. is following the approach to ethics known as

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A)   naive immoralist.
B)   righteous moralist.
C)   cultural pluralist.
D)   cultural relativist.
E)   ethnocentric.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

A multinational corporation that adopts the naive immoralist approach to ethics will most likely

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A)   lack cultural sensitivity.
B)   demonstrate moral imperialism.
C)   be highly ethical in its business in a host nation irrespective of the ethical standards followed by other corporations in that host nation.
D)   believe that, in a host country, any action is ethically justified if everyone is doing it.
E)   demonstrate a high degree of ethnocentrism.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

An ethical dilemma occurs when neither of the choices in a situation seem appropriate or right.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

While making a business decision, a manager who believes in rights theories is most likely to focus on

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A)   respecting fundamental human privileges.
B)   achieving collective goals, even if that involves violating fundamental rights.
C)   propagating home-country standards of ethics.
D)   weighing the associated social benefits, costs, and risks.
E)   maximizing stockholders' wealth and profits.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 9

Jonathan is the expatriate manager of his company's facility in Indonesia. He expects the exact same standards of working conditions, wages, and labor management in the Indonesian facility as practiced by the corporate office in the United States. His policy does not always lead to profits because of the vast cultural differences between the two nations. What straw men approach to ethics is Jonathan using?

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A)   naive immoralism
B)   cultural relativism
C)   righteous moralism
D)   Sullivan principles
E)   just distributionF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 10

Jaxon Furnishings Company is considering logging opportunities in Alaska to obtain wood for their products. The market analysis team is busy comparing the benefits of increased wood production to the costs of deforestation and resulting environmental conditions. The company is using the ________ approach to make this ethical decision.

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A)   naive immoralism
B)   Friedman doctrine
C)   ethnocentrism
D)   utilitarianism
E)   righteous moralismF) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 11

The ________ supports the idea that everyone is imagined to be oblivious to all of his or her particular characteristics, such as, race, sex, intelligence, nationality, family background, and special talents.

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A)   tragedy of the commons
B)   naive immoralism
C)   Universal Declaration of Human Rights
D)   veil of ignorance
E)   difference principleF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

The social rules that provide guidelines for appropriate behavior in a particular situation are known as values.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Jalen is the ethics officer at TurboLife. His responsibilities would include

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A)   auditing decisions to make sure they are consistent with the company's moral principles.
B)   implementing ethnocentric principles.
C)   ensuring that the economic interest of stakeholders is given prime importance.
D)   training managers to avoid moral imagination and veil of ignorance.
E)   informing external stakeholders about the moral consequences of a decision.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 14

The Sullivan principles resulted from Leon Sullivan's response to

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A)   globalization.
B)   apartheid laws.
C)   grease payments.
D)   deforestation.
E)   anti-dumping laws.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 15

The utilitarian philosophy for business ethics primarily focuses on

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A)   applying home-country standards of ethics in foreign countries.
B)   adopting the ethics of the culture in which a business operates.
C)   maximizing business profits by increasing employee productivity.
D)   ensuring justified treatment of any minority.
E)   weighing the benefits, costs, and risks associated with a course of action.F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

GreenPlace is a manufacturing company that makes plant fertilizers. It has customers, investors, vendors, and competitors from all across the globe. Which of these GreenPlace business associates would be an internal stakeholder?

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A)   Ace Globe Inc., a firm that supplies machinery to GreenPlace
B)   Selena, a prominent member of the top management of GreenPlace
C)   Gamma Creators, a competing firm that produces similar products
D)   the government of the home country where GreenPlace operates
E)   Jarrett, a major buyer of GreenPlace productsF) D) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

Discuss the utilitarian approach to business ethics and examine its weaknesses.

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Question 18

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to the idea that businesspeople should consider the social consequences of economic actions when making business decisions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights would agree that

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A)   there should not be different sets of fundamental rights and privileges for different cultures.
B)   it is unethical to employ child labor in sweatshops even if that happens to be common in some countries.
C)   it is ethical to treat people as means to the ends of others.
D)   citizens of a nation have no duties to their community.
E)   people do not have a right to join trade unions for protection of their interests.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

The biggest criticism of the righteous moralist approach to an ethical situation is that it

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A)   ignores home-country standards rather than factoring them into a situation.
B)   relies on standards set in individual cultures regardless of living conditions.
C)   opposes ethnocentric beliefs.
D)   goes too far and not every situation can be approached relying on home-country standards.
E)   leans too much on cultural relativism.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

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