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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Ethics in Information Technology – 5th
Edition
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George W. Reynolds
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An Overview of Ethics
2. Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users
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3. Computer and Internet Crime
4. Privacy
5. Freedom of Expression O
6. Intellectual Property
7. Software Development
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The Impact of Information Technology on Productivity and Quality of
Life
9. Social Networking
10.Ethics of IT Organizations
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, CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF ETHICS
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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
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2. Line operations personnel can be appointed as corporate ethics officers.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True AP
3. In a nonprofit organization, the board of directors reports to the local community that it serves.
a. True
b. False PR
ANSWER: True
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
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ANSWER: True ED
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
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6. Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee’s performance appraisal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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
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, Chapter 1: An Overview of Ethics
8. The term morality refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely shared that they become the
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basis for an established consensus.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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9. Laws can proclaim an act as legal, although many people may consider the act immoral.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True
10. Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True
PR
11. Lawrence Kohlberg found that the most crucial factor that stimulates a person’s moral development is monetary
reward for good behavior. OV
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False ED
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
13. Legal acts conform to what an individual believes to be the right thing to do.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. Ethics has risen to the top of the business agenda because risks associated with inappropriate behavior have
increased, both in their likelihood and in their potential negative impact.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
© 2015 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
Ethics in Information Technology –
UV 5th Edition
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TEST BANK
AP
PR
O VE
George W. Reynolds D?
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
© George W. Reynolds
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
,ST
TABLE OF CONTENTS
UV
Ethics in Information Technology – 5th
Edition
IA_
George W. Reynolds
1.
AP
An Overview of Ethics
2. Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users
PR
3. Computer and Internet Crime
4. Privacy
5. Freedom of Expression O
6. Intellectual Property
7. Software Development
8.
VE
The Impact of Information Technology on Productivity and Quality of
Life
9. Social Networking
10.Ethics of IT Organizations
D?
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF ETHICS
ST
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
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2. Line operations personnel can be appointed as corporate ethics officers.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True AP
3. In a nonprofit organization, the board of directors reports to the local community that it serves.
a. True
b. False PR
ANSWER: True
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
OV
ANSWER: True ED
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
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6. Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee’s performance appraisal.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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
© 2015 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
, Chapter 1: An Overview of Ethics
8. The term morality refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so widely shared that they become the
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basis for an established consensus.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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9. Laws can proclaim an act as legal, although many people may consider the act immoral.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True
10. Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: True
PR
11. Lawrence Kohlberg found that the most crucial factor that stimulates a person’s moral development is monetary
reward for good behavior. OV
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False ED
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
13. Legal acts conform to what an individual believes to be the right thing to do.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. Ethics has risen to the top of the business agenda because risks associated with inappropriate behavior have
increased, both in their likelihood and in their potential negative impact.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
© 2015 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part.
