BA 300 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What is the role of formal systems in organizational culture? - ✔✔They include
selection, training, performance management, and authority structures that shape
ethical behavior.
✔✔Moral decision-making process - ✔✔Process that involves ethical awareness,
judgment, and behavior.
✔✔Cognitive Biases - ✔✔Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in
judgment.
✔✔Individual Differences - ✔✔Variations among individuals in their ethical decision-
making.
✔✔Group and Organizational Pressures - ✔✔Influences that affect individual ethical
decisions within organizations.
✔✔Organizational Culture - ✔✔Shared values, beliefs, and norms that shape behavior
within an organization.
✔✔Utilitarianism - ✔✔Decision rule to maximize the common good.
✔✔Rights - ✔✔Decision rule ensuring freedom from force and fraud.
✔✔Justice - ✔✔Decision rule to provide the greatest benefit to the least advantaged.
✔✔Objectivism - ✔✔Decision rule advocating rationality and individual potential.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - ✔✔Decision rule that actions do not violate
global hypernorms or local authentic norms.
✔✔Ethic of Care - ✔✔Decision rule focusing on relationships and responsibilities.
✔✔Utilitarianism - Biggest pro - ✔✔Replaces partiality with science.
✔✔Utilitarianism - Biggest con - ✔✔The means don't matter.
✔✔Robert Nozick's Rights Theory - Biggest pro - ✔✔Virtually complete freedom of
action with minimal government intrusion.
✔✔Robert Nozick's Rights Theory - Biggest con - ✔✔Disregard for the interests of
others.
, ✔✔John Rawls' Theory of Justice - Biggest pro - ✔✔Unbiased approach to social
justice.
✔✔John Rawls' Theory of Justice - Biggest con - ✔✔Denies free will, meritocracy.
✔✔Objectivism - Biggest pro - ✔✔Reinforces personal responsibility.
✔✔Objectivism - Biggest con - ✔✔Individualistic and judgmental.
✔✔Ethic of Care - Biggest pro - ✔✔Protects the weak and dependent.
✔✔Ethic of Care - Biggest con - ✔✔Neglects justice.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - Biggest pro - ✔✔Adapts to variations in local
norms within some global limits.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - Biggest con - ✔✔Local norms are vague and
may give actors too much flexibility.
✔✔What is a corporation? - ✔✔A legal entity chartered by the state with rights and
responsibilities apart from the persons running or working for it.
✔✔What is the separation of ownership and control in a corporation? - ✔✔It refers to
the distinction between the shareholders who own the corporation and the managers
who run it.
✔✔What is the primary goal of the Shareholder Value perspective? - ✔✔To maximize
profits within the law and morality.
✔✔What do shareholders own when they invest in a corporation at IPO? - ✔✔They
invest in the promise of maximum shareholder value within legal and moral constraints.
✔✔What are the three arguments for Shareholder Value? - ✔✔Legal argument,
economic imperative, and ethical justifications.
✔✔What is a challenge to the Shareholder Value perspective? - ✔✔It is difficult to rely
on self-interested businesspeople to act on others' behalf.
✔✔What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? - ✔✔A commitment to corporate
actions beyond maximizing profits within the law and morality.
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔What is the role of formal systems in organizational culture? - ✔✔They include
selection, training, performance management, and authority structures that shape
ethical behavior.
✔✔Moral decision-making process - ✔✔Process that involves ethical awareness,
judgment, and behavior.
✔✔Cognitive Biases - ✔✔Systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in
judgment.
✔✔Individual Differences - ✔✔Variations among individuals in their ethical decision-
making.
✔✔Group and Organizational Pressures - ✔✔Influences that affect individual ethical
decisions within organizations.
✔✔Organizational Culture - ✔✔Shared values, beliefs, and norms that shape behavior
within an organization.
✔✔Utilitarianism - ✔✔Decision rule to maximize the common good.
✔✔Rights - ✔✔Decision rule ensuring freedom from force and fraud.
✔✔Justice - ✔✔Decision rule to provide the greatest benefit to the least advantaged.
✔✔Objectivism - ✔✔Decision rule advocating rationality and individual potential.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - ✔✔Decision rule that actions do not violate
global hypernorms or local authentic norms.
✔✔Ethic of Care - ✔✔Decision rule focusing on relationships and responsibilities.
✔✔Utilitarianism - Biggest pro - ✔✔Replaces partiality with science.
✔✔Utilitarianism - Biggest con - ✔✔The means don't matter.
✔✔Robert Nozick's Rights Theory - Biggest pro - ✔✔Virtually complete freedom of
action with minimal government intrusion.
✔✔Robert Nozick's Rights Theory - Biggest con - ✔✔Disregard for the interests of
others.
, ✔✔John Rawls' Theory of Justice - Biggest pro - ✔✔Unbiased approach to social
justice.
✔✔John Rawls' Theory of Justice - Biggest con - ✔✔Denies free will, meritocracy.
✔✔Objectivism - Biggest pro - ✔✔Reinforces personal responsibility.
✔✔Objectivism - Biggest con - ✔✔Individualistic and judgmental.
✔✔Ethic of Care - Biggest pro - ✔✔Protects the weak and dependent.
✔✔Ethic of Care - Biggest con - ✔✔Neglects justice.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - Biggest pro - ✔✔Adapts to variations in local
norms within some global limits.
✔✔Integrative Social Contract Theory - Biggest con - ✔✔Local norms are vague and
may give actors too much flexibility.
✔✔What is a corporation? - ✔✔A legal entity chartered by the state with rights and
responsibilities apart from the persons running or working for it.
✔✔What is the separation of ownership and control in a corporation? - ✔✔It refers to
the distinction between the shareholders who own the corporation and the managers
who run it.
✔✔What is the primary goal of the Shareholder Value perspective? - ✔✔To maximize
profits within the law and morality.
✔✔What do shareholders own when they invest in a corporation at IPO? - ✔✔They
invest in the promise of maximum shareholder value within legal and moral constraints.
✔✔What are the three arguments for Shareholder Value? - ✔✔Legal argument,
economic imperative, and ethical justifications.
✔✔What is a challenge to the Shareholder Value perspective? - ✔✔It is difficult to rely
on self-interested businesspeople to act on others' behalf.
✔✔What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? - ✔✔A commitment to corporate
actions beyond maximizing profits within the law and morality.
