TEST BANK FOR BUSINESS ESSENTIALS 6TH
CANADIAN EDITION BY EBERT 2025 – 2026
UPDATE
CHAPTER 3
CONDUCTING BUSINESS ETHICALLY AND RESPONSIBLY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers
the question.
1)Which of the following is correct regarding the Livent situation as described in the opening case?
A)Founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were never brought to trial because prosecutors couldn’t
find enough evidence against them
B)Livent continues to be financially successful company even though it received a lot of bad publicity about
alleged financial manipulation at the company
C)Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of unethical, but not illegal, behaviour
D)the defence lawyers successfully attacked the credibility of the prosecution witnesses against
Drabinsky and Gottlieb
E)Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of fraud and forgery
ANSWER : - 2
Diff: 2
Skill: RecallObjective: 3 2
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
,2)________ are beliefs about what is right and wrong or good and bad.
A)Motivators
B)Ethics
C)Cultures
D)Emotional intelligence
E)Mores
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
3)Ethics are
A)standards or moral values regarding what is right and wrong.
B)avoiding doing things that, if everyone did it, we would have a real mess.
C)believing what’s right for one person is wrong for another.
D)the command to love one another.
E)standards by how we treat one another.
ANSWER : - A
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
4)Which of the following is accurate regarding the E-Business and Social Media Solutions boxed insert
entitled “Ethics in the YouTube Age?”
A)There is very little material on YouTube that does not meet legal requirements
B)Students are often critical of the unethical behaviour of corporations, but many students have no qualms
about illegally downloading songs and movies
C)Downloading music is ethical because the artists that make the songs and movies make so much money
D)Aspiring artists are hurt less by illegal downloading than established stars
E)All of these are correct
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 3
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
5)Behavior that individual beliefs and social norms define as being wrong and bad is called A)ethical
behavior.
B)business ethics.
C)unethical behavior.
D)price gouging.
,E)motivation.
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
6)Behavior that conforms to individual beliefs and social norms about what is right and good is referred to as
A)social reaction behaviour.
B)ethical behaviour.
C)generally accepted behaviour.
D)collusional behaviour.
E)motivational behaviour.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
7)________ refers to ethical or unethical behaviors by a manager or employee of an organization. A)Social
ethics
B)Social responsibility
C)Business ethics
D)Collusion
E)Cartelling
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
8)The beliefs about what is right or wrong is termed A)social
obligation.
B)ethics.
C)social responsibility.
D)social consciousness.
E)employee empowerment.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
, 9)Ethical and unethical behaviour is determined partly by the ________ and partly by ________. A)society;
culture
B)society; values
C)individual; culture
D)person; religion
E)culture; society
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
10)Beliefs about what is right or wrong are called A)social
responsibility.
B)social consciousness.
C)employee empowerment.
D)social obligation.
E)ethics.
ANSWER : - E
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
11)People start to develop views about ethical behavior as A)infants.
B)children.
C)toddlers.
D)young adults.
E)adults.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
12)The practice of jeitinho is a hallmark of business activity in which country?
A)Canada
B)Japan
C)Indonesia
D)Brazil
E)The Czech Republic
ANSWER : - D
Diff: 1
CANADIAN EDITION BY EBERT 2025 – 2026
UPDATE
CHAPTER 3
CONDUCTING BUSINESS ETHICALLY AND RESPONSIBLY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers
the question.
1)Which of the following is correct regarding the Livent situation as described in the opening case?
A)Founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were never brought to trial because prosecutors couldn’t
find enough evidence against them
B)Livent continues to be financially successful company even though it received a lot of bad publicity about
alleged financial manipulation at the company
C)Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of unethical, but not illegal, behaviour
D)the defence lawyers successfully attacked the credibility of the prosecution witnesses against
Drabinsky and Gottlieb
E)Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of fraud and forgery
ANSWER : - 2
Diff: 2
Skill: RecallObjective: 3 2
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
,2)________ are beliefs about what is right and wrong or good and bad.
A)Motivators
B)Ethics
C)Cultures
D)Emotional intelligence
E)Mores
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
3)Ethics are
A)standards or moral values regarding what is right and wrong.
B)avoiding doing things that, if everyone did it, we would have a real mess.
C)believing what’s right for one person is wrong for another.
D)the command to love one another.
E)standards by how we treat one another.
ANSWER : - A
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
4)Which of the following is accurate regarding the E-Business and Social Media Solutions boxed insert
entitled “Ethics in the YouTube Age?”
A)There is very little material on YouTube that does not meet legal requirements
B)Students are often critical of the unethical behaviour of corporations, but many students have no qualms
about illegally downloading songs and movies
C)Downloading music is ethical because the artists that make the songs and movies make so much money
D)Aspiring artists are hurt less by illegal downloading than established stars
E)All of these are correct
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 3
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
5)Behavior that individual beliefs and social norms define as being wrong and bad is called A)ethical
behavior.
B)business ethics.
C)unethical behavior.
D)price gouging.
,E)motivation.
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
6)Behavior that conforms to individual beliefs and social norms about what is right and good is referred to as
A)social reaction behaviour.
B)ethical behaviour.
C)generally accepted behaviour.
D)collusional behaviour.
E)motivational behaviour.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
7)________ refers to ethical or unethical behaviors by a manager or employee of an organization. A)Social
ethics
B)Social responsibility
C)Business ethics
D)Collusion
E)Cartelling
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
8)The beliefs about what is right or wrong is termed A)social
obligation.
B)ethics.
C)social responsibility.
D)social consciousness.
E)employee empowerment.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
, 9)Ethical and unethical behaviour is determined partly by the ________ and partly by ________. A)society;
culture
B)society; values
C)individual; culture
D)person; religion
E)culture; society
ANSWER : - C
Diff: 2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
10)Beliefs about what is right or wrong are called A)social
responsibility.
B)social consciousness.
C)employee empowerment.
D)social obligation.
E)ethics.
ANSWER : - E
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
11)People start to develop views about ethical behavior as A)infants.
B)children.
C)toddlers.
D)young adults.
E)adults.
ANSWER : - B
Diff: 1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
12)The practice of jeitinho is a hallmark of business activity in which country?
A)Canada
B)Japan
C)Indonesia
D)Brazil
E)The Czech Republic
ANSWER : - D
Diff: 1
