Business Ethics & Social
Responsibility Test questions with
answers
ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔beliefs about what is right
and wrong or good and bad in actions that affect others.
ethical behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔behavior
conforming to generally accepted social norms
concerning beneficial and harmful actions
unethical behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔behavior that
does not conform to generally accepted social norms
concerning beneficial and harmful actions
business ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ethical or
unethical behaviors by employees in the context of their
jobs
What are ethical and unethical behaviors determined by?
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔partly by the individual and
partly by the culture.
,True or False: Without violating general standard, people
may develop personal codes of ethics reflecting a wide
range of attitudes and beliefs. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔True
What types of laws do societies generally adopt? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔formal laws that reflect prevailing
and ethical standards or social norms.
How should we deal with business behavior that we
regard as unethical, especially when its legally
ambiguous? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔We have to start
with the individuals in a business-its managers,
employees, and other legal representatives.
What is each person's code of ethics determined by? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a combination of factors. We form
ethical standards as children in response to our
perceptions of the behavior of parents and other adults.
Soon we enter school, where we are influenced by our
peers, and as we grow into adulthood, experience shapes
our lives and contributes to our ethical beliefs and our
behavior.
What do people also develop which contribute to their
ethical standards? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔values and
morals
, Managerial ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔standards of
behavior that guide individual managers in their work.
What does the category of behavior towards employees
cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔hiring and firing, wages
and working conditions, and privacy and respect.
What do ethical and legal guidelines suggest that hiring
and firing decisions should be solely based on? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔solely on the ability to perform a
job.
In what areas do ethical issues rise in from employee
behavior towards employers? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔confidentiality, and honesty
conflict of interest - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔occurs when
an activity may benefit the individual to the determinant
of his or her employer.
primary agents of interest - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔customers, competitors, stockholders, suppliers,
dealers, and unions.
Responsibility Test questions with
answers
ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔beliefs about what is right
and wrong or good and bad in actions that affect others.
ethical behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔behavior
conforming to generally accepted social norms
concerning beneficial and harmful actions
unethical behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔behavior that
does not conform to generally accepted social norms
concerning beneficial and harmful actions
business ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ethical or
unethical behaviors by employees in the context of their
jobs
What are ethical and unethical behaviors determined by?
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔partly by the individual and
partly by the culture.
,True or False: Without violating general standard, people
may develop personal codes of ethics reflecting a wide
range of attitudes and beliefs. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔True
What types of laws do societies generally adopt? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔formal laws that reflect prevailing
and ethical standards or social norms.
How should we deal with business behavior that we
regard as unethical, especially when its legally
ambiguous? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔We have to start
with the individuals in a business-its managers,
employees, and other legal representatives.
What is each person's code of ethics determined by? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a combination of factors. We form
ethical standards as children in response to our
perceptions of the behavior of parents and other adults.
Soon we enter school, where we are influenced by our
peers, and as we grow into adulthood, experience shapes
our lives and contributes to our ethical beliefs and our
behavior.
What do people also develop which contribute to their
ethical standards? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔values and
morals
, Managerial ethics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔standards of
behavior that guide individual managers in their work.
What does the category of behavior towards employees
cover? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔hiring and firing, wages
and working conditions, and privacy and respect.
What do ethical and legal guidelines suggest that hiring
and firing decisions should be solely based on? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔solely on the ability to perform a
job.
In what areas do ethical issues rise in from employee
behavior towards employers? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔confidentiality, and honesty
conflict of interest - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔occurs when
an activity may benefit the individual to the determinant
of his or her employer.
primary agents of interest - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔customers, competitors, stockholders, suppliers,
dealers, and unions.
