The New York Times reported on September 25, 2012 that in German, "permanent workers can
usually be laid off only after long negotiations with employers that include hefty severance
payments." According to the video on the employee discipline and termination, in California the
most other places in the U.S. most employees in the private workforce may be dismissed by their
emplyers? At will as long as the reason for the employee's dismissal does not offend
fundamental public policy.
Which of the following statements if False about the Ethics of Care? In response to
Objectivism.
Which of the following sources of law set up a new oversight board for the accounting
profession and requires that companies change their lead auditor every 5 years? Sarbanes-
Oxley Act
In 2006, a high ranking executive at a Phoenix Company was offered a top job as a leading
Boston Company. It would have been a career-advancing move, but the executive knew that if he
took it, the members of this three-person staff would be fired and their work performed outside
the company. One member of his staff was pregnant, another was close to retirement, and the
third was a major family breadwinner. He declined the Boston job based on as he put it "the clear
understanding that accepting the position would have immediate and negative consequences for
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his team members." In dealing the new position, the executive was guided by? The ethic
of care instead of objectivism
The developer of one ethical decision rule was quoted in a 1964 magazine article as saying that
those who place friends and family first in life rather that themselves, are "immoral" and
"emotional parasites." With what ethical rule is that negative attitude towards?
Objectivism
A national TV network decided it would be irresponsible to run ads for spiked lemonade in
which a well known professional golfer is seen driving a golf cart drinking what appears to be a
spiked lemonade. The network was concerned that such an ad would encourage drinking and
driving. Which of the following advertising ethical values discussed in the video segment was
the primary focus of the networks decision? Well-being
According to the video, the core of what ethical theory is an established way of doing things, a
shared sense of value and significance, shared heroes and role models, a clear sense of what sort
of person one should be rather than universal principle rules and objective rational principles?
Virtue of Ethics