BOMI - Ethics is Good Business Questions with Solutions

BOMI - Ethics is Good Business

All of the following were major ethical dilemmas of the 1990s except:
a. unsafe work practices in third world countries.
b. increased corporate liability for personal damage.
c. financial mismanagement and fraud.
d. employee militancy. - answer employee militancy

All of the following are major ethical dilemmas of the 2000s except:
a. cybercrime.
b. privacy issues/data mining.
c. deceptive advertising.
d. intellectual property theft. - answer deceptive advertising

In response to ethical breaches by organizations, the U.S. federal government in 1991
added a chapter to the:
a. Legal Code of Business Ethics.
b. Corporate Interest in Ethics Guidelines.
c. Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
d. U.S. Code of Ethics for Government Service. - answerFederal Sentencing
Guidelines

All of the following are potential outcomes of unethical business decisions except:
a. bad public relations.
b. increased corporate transparency.
c. increased government scrutiny.
d. public reluctance to use a company's products or services. - answerincreased
corporate transparency

By valuing ethics, an organization promotes and rewards all of the following except:
a. honesty.
b. punctuality.
c. fairness
d. integrity. - answerpunctuality

(True/ False) The role of civil rights in the workplace was a major ethical dilemma faced
in the 1960s. - answerTrue

(True/ False) Research, newspaper, and magazine articles have suggested that an
organization's bottom line is strengthened when the business acts in an ethical, legal,
and socially responsible manner. - answerTrue

, (True/ False) Boards of directors and managers are not expected to take responsibility
for overseeing and managing compliance and ethics programs. - answerFalse

(True/ False) Federal guidelines are the only reason that an organization needs to
consider its ethical practices. - answerFalse

(True/ False) According to the National Business Ethics Survey, ethical problems have
been basically eradicated from the workplace by the 1991 Federal Sentencing
Guidelines. - answerFalse

The foundation of the Western ethical tradition is the:
a. Torah.
b. New Testament.
c. Ten Commandments.
d. works of Socrates. - answerTen Commandments.

All of the following are distinctions that can be drawn between religion and morality
except:
a. people do good for nonreligious reasons such as altruism or a fear of punishment.
b. moral instructions allow for bad deeds as long as they are done in the name of
religion.
c. people do good out of habit, or as a result of their upbringing.
moral instructions from religions can be general and vague. - answermoral instructions
allow for bad deeds as long as they are done in the name of religion

A system or code of morals that provides a code for living is referred to as:
a. values.
b. integrity.
c. laws.
d. ethics. - answerethics

Adherence to a moral code in daily decision making is referred to as:
a. character.
b. ethics.
c. integrity.
d. lawfulness. - answerintegrity

All of the following topics were addressed in the 282 laws found in Hammurabi's Code
except:
a. marriage and family laws.
b. Christian religious laws and how they relate to business.
c. economic laws governing issues such as tariffs and commerce.
d. civil laws governing slavery and personal debt. - answerChristian religious laws and
how they relate to business