True / False
1. An organization's mission statement highlights its key ethical issues and identifies the
overarching values and principles that are important to the organization and its decision
making.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Establish a Corporate Code of Ethics
2. Line operations personnel can be appointed as corporate ethics officers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Appoint a Corporate Ethics Officer
3. In a nonprofit organization, the board of directors reports to the local community that it
serves.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
,REFERENCES: Require the Board of Directors to Set and Model High Ethical Standards
4. Consistency means that shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the community know
what they can expect of an organization-that it will behave in the future much as it has in
the past.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Creating an Organization That Operates Consistently
5. The greater reliance of information systems in all aspects of life has decreased the risk
that information technology will be used unethically.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Ethics in Information Technology
6. Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee's
performance appraisal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
,DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Include Ethical Criteria in Employee Appraisals
7. Employees may suppress their tendency to act in a manner that seems ethical to them
and instead act in a manner that will protect them against anticipated punishment.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Fostering Good Business Practices
8. The term morality refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely
shared that they become the basis for an established consensus.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: What is Ethics?
9. Laws can proclaim an act as legal, although many people may consider the act
immoral.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
, DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: The Difference Between Morals, Ethics, and Laws
10. Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: What is Ethics?
11. Lawrence Kohlberg found that the most crucial factor that stimulates a person's moral
development is monetary reward for good behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Require Employees to Take Ethics Training
12. Multinational and global organizations must not present a consistent face to their
shareholders, customers, and suppliers but instead must operate with a different value
system in each country they do business in.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
1. An organization's mission statement highlights its key ethical issues and identifies the
overarching values and principles that are important to the organization and its decision
making.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Establish a Corporate Code of Ethics
2. Line operations personnel can be appointed as corporate ethics officers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Appoint a Corporate Ethics Officer
3. In a nonprofit organization, the board of directors reports to the local community that it
serves.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
,REFERENCES: Require the Board of Directors to Set and Model High Ethical Standards
4. Consistency means that shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the community know
what they can expect of an organization-that it will behave in the future much as it has in
the past.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Creating an Organization That Operates Consistently
5. The greater reliance of information systems in all aspects of life has decreased the risk
that information technology will be used unethically.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Ethics in Information Technology
6. Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee's
performance appraisal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
,DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Include Ethical Criteria in Employee Appraisals
7. Employees may suppress their tendency to act in a manner that seems ethical to them
and instead act in a manner that will protect them against anticipated punishment.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Fostering Good Business Practices
8. The term morality refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely
shared that they become the basis for an established consensus.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: What is Ethics?
9. Laws can proclaim an act as legal, although many people may consider the act
immoral.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
, DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: The Difference Between Morals, Ethics, and Laws
10. Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: What is Ethics?
11. Lawrence Kohlberg found that the most crucial factor that stimulates a person's moral
development is monetary reward for good behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Require Employees to Take Ethics Training
12. Multinational and global organizations must not present a consistent face to their
shareholders, customers, and suppliers but instead must operate with a different value
system in each country they do business in.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
