Business Management Prep Exam Q & A
Compiled by Professor Kevin
,Proscriptive rules in codes of conduct: c. Tell multinational companies or managers what they cannot do.
a. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they should do.
b. Are forms of moral language.
c. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they cannot do.
d. All of the above
The degree to which people have a. An indication of social inequality.
privileged access to resources and
positions within societies is
a. An indication of social inequality.
b. The same around the world.
c. Has no implications for multinationals.
d. All of the above
According to the FCPA, U.S. managers are c. For all bribes by employees or agents of the U.S. company even if the U.S.
criminally liable managers do not know about them.
a. Only for bribes that they pay directly to
a foreign official.
b. Only for bribes paid in the U.S. and not
in other countries where it is common
practice in business dealings.
c. For all bribes by employees or agents
of the U.S. company even if the U.S.
managers do not know about them.
d. For bribes paid by foreign agents, if
managers know about them.
Moral languages include all of the d. Being ethical.
following EXCEPT
a. Virtue and vice.
b. Self-control.
c. Avoiding harm.
d. Being ethical.
, Cultural relativism represents a. The belief that all cultures are valid and ethical responses to the problems of
a. The belief that all cultures are valid and living.
ethical responses to the problems of
living.
b. The belief that some cultures are
relatively better than others.
c. The belief that your own culture is the
best.
d. The degree of similarity between
business and national cultures.
Cultural paradoxes represent a. Cases where situations in reality seem to contradict cultural prescriptions.
a. Cases where situations in reality seem
to contradict cultural prescriptions.
b. The assumption that all people within a
culture behave, feel and act the same.
c. The belief that a person's culture is
superior.
d. The belief that one's culture is inferior.
The achievement versus ascription b. The manner by which a society gives status.
dimension addresses
a. The extent to which an individual's life is
involved with work.
b. The manner by which a society gives
status.
c. The way a culture deals with the past,
present, and future.
d. The belief people have in controlling
their fate.
Deontological ethical theories d. Argue that actions by themselves have a good or bad morality irrespective of
a. Argue that the morality of an act comes the consequences
from this consequences.
b. Would provide justification for closing a
plant and laying off workers to reduce
costs.
c. Is most typically represented by cost
and benefit analyses.
d. Argue that actions by themselves have
a good or bad morality irrespective of the
consequences.
Prescriptive rules in codes of conduct a. Tell multinational companies or managers what they should do.
a. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they should do.
b. Are forms of moral language.
c. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they cannot do.
d. All of the above
Compiled by Professor Kevin
,Proscriptive rules in codes of conduct: c. Tell multinational companies or managers what they cannot do.
a. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they should do.
b. Are forms of moral language.
c. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they cannot do.
d. All of the above
The degree to which people have a. An indication of social inequality.
privileged access to resources and
positions within societies is
a. An indication of social inequality.
b. The same around the world.
c. Has no implications for multinationals.
d. All of the above
According to the FCPA, U.S. managers are c. For all bribes by employees or agents of the U.S. company even if the U.S.
criminally liable managers do not know about them.
a. Only for bribes that they pay directly to
a foreign official.
b. Only for bribes paid in the U.S. and not
in other countries where it is common
practice in business dealings.
c. For all bribes by employees or agents
of the U.S. company even if the U.S.
managers do not know about them.
d. For bribes paid by foreign agents, if
managers know about them.
Moral languages include all of the d. Being ethical.
following EXCEPT
a. Virtue and vice.
b. Self-control.
c. Avoiding harm.
d. Being ethical.
, Cultural relativism represents a. The belief that all cultures are valid and ethical responses to the problems of
a. The belief that all cultures are valid and living.
ethical responses to the problems of
living.
b. The belief that some cultures are
relatively better than others.
c. The belief that your own culture is the
best.
d. The degree of similarity between
business and national cultures.
Cultural paradoxes represent a. Cases where situations in reality seem to contradict cultural prescriptions.
a. Cases where situations in reality seem
to contradict cultural prescriptions.
b. The assumption that all people within a
culture behave, feel and act the same.
c. The belief that a person's culture is
superior.
d. The belief that one's culture is inferior.
The achievement versus ascription b. The manner by which a society gives status.
dimension addresses
a. The extent to which an individual's life is
involved with work.
b. The manner by which a society gives
status.
c. The way a culture deals with the past,
present, and future.
d. The belief people have in controlling
their fate.
Deontological ethical theories d. Argue that actions by themselves have a good or bad morality irrespective of
a. Argue that the morality of an act comes the consequences
from this consequences.
b. Would provide justification for closing a
plant and laying off workers to reduce
costs.
c. Is most typically represented by cost
and benefit analyses.
d. Argue that actions by themselves have
a good or bad morality irrespective of the
consequences.
Prescriptive rules in codes of conduct a. Tell multinational companies or managers what they should do.
a. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they should do.
b. Are forms of moral language.
c. Tell multinational companies or
managers what they cannot do.
d. All of the above
