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CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
CHAPTER 2: Ethical Theory and Business
CHAPTER 3: Corporate Social Responsibility
CHAPTER 4: Corporate Culture, Governance, and Ethical Leadership
CHAPTER 5: The Meaning and Value of Work
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CHAPTER 6: Moral Rights in the Workplace
CHAPTER 7: Employee Responsibilities
CHAPTER 8: Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing
CHAPTER 9: Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Digital Marketing
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CHAPTER 10: Sustainability and the Natural Environment
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CHAPTER 11: Workplace Diversity and Discrimination
CHAPTER 12: International Business and Globalization
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CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
CHAPTER 1 - Why Study Ethics?
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Ethics refers to the beliefs, values, and principles that guide a person's life and decisions.
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⊚ false
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2) Ethical behavior and an ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage in the
marketplace and with customers, suppliers, and employees.
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⊚ false
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3) In a society that values individual freedom, everything that is legal is ethically right and
everything that is ethically wrong is illegal.
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⊚ false
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4) Unlike Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for accountants, there are no
principles, standards, concepts, or values common to business ethics.
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⊚ false
5) The role of an ethics course should be to convey information to a passive audience, while
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treating students as passive learners.
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6) The unexamined life, according to Socrates, is not worth living.
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7) Business ethics is concerned more with reasoning than answers.
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CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
8) If something is seriously wrong, the law will prohibit it. Consequently, it's enough to rely on
the law for deciding what's right or wrong.
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⊚ false
9) Ethics and ethos are the same thing.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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10) Philosophical ethics denies that conformity and obedience are the best guides to how we
should live.
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⊚ false
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11) According to philosophical ethics, a simple acceptance of customary norms is an adequate
ethical perspective.
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⊚ false
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12) Philosophical ethics distinguishes what people do value from what they should value.
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⊚ false
13) The major reason to study ethics is to be able to answer questions such as "what should I
do?" or "what type of person should I be?" or "how shall I live in my community?"
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14) Gatekeepers are those people and institutions whose role is to provide checks on illegal and
unethical behavior.
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15) A skeptical challenge to business ethics is that there is no common rational basis for making
ethical judgments.
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⊚ false
An Introduction to Business Ethics | 7th Edition
by Joseph R. DesJardins
SC
O
R
EG
U
ID
ES
,TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
CHAPTER 2: Ethical Theory and Business
CHAPTER 3: Corporate Social Responsibility
CHAPTER 4: Corporate Culture, Governance, and Ethical Leadership
CHAPTER 5: The Meaning and Value of Work
SC
CHAPTER 6: Moral Rights in the Workplace
CHAPTER 7: Employee Responsibilities
CHAPTER 8: Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing
CHAPTER 9: Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Digital Marketing
O
CHAPTER 10: Sustainability and the Natural Environment
R
CHAPTER 11: Workplace Diversity and Discrimination
CHAPTER 12: International Business and Globalization
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U
ID
ES
, Wdocs TB-An Introduction to Business Ethics(7E,Desjardins)
CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
CHAPTER 1 - Why Study Ethics?
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Ethics refers to the beliefs, values, and principles that guide a person's life and decisions.
⊚ true
⊚ false
SC
2) Ethical behavior and an ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage in the
marketplace and with customers, suppliers, and employees.
⊚ true
⊚ false
O
3) In a society that values individual freedom, everything that is legal is ethically right and
everything that is ethically wrong is illegal.
⊚ true
R
⊚ false
EG
4) Unlike Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for accountants, there are no
principles, standards, concepts, or values common to business ethics.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) The role of an ethics course should be to convey information to a passive audience, while
U
treating students as passive learners.
⊚ true
⊚ false
ID
6) The unexamined life, according to Socrates, is not worth living.
⊚ true
⊚ false
ES
7) Business ethics is concerned more with reasoning than answers.
⊚ true
⊚ false
, Wdocs TB-An Introduction to Business Ethics(7E,Desjardins)
CHAPTER 1: Why Study Ethics?
8) If something is seriously wrong, the law will prohibit it. Consequently, it's enough to rely on
the law for deciding what's right or wrong.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Ethics and ethos are the same thing.
⊚ true
⊚ false
SC
10) Philosophical ethics denies that conformity and obedience are the best guides to how we
should live.
⊚ true
⊚ false
O
11) According to philosophical ethics, a simple acceptance of customary norms is an adequate
ethical perspective.
R
⊚ true
⊚ false
EG
12) Philosophical ethics distinguishes what people do value from what they should value.
⊚ true
⊚ false
13) The major reason to study ethics is to be able to answer questions such as "what should I
do?" or "what type of person should I be?" or "how shall I live in my community?"
U
⊚ true
⊚ false
ID
14) Gatekeepers are those people and institutions whose role is to provide checks on illegal and
unethical behavior.
⊚ true
ES
⊚ false
15) A skeptical challenge to business ethics is that there is no common rational basis for making
ethical judgments.
⊚ true
⊚ false
