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An Introduction to Business Ethics, 6e (DesJardins)

Chapter 5   The Meaning and Value of Work

 

1) Select the statement that does not represent one of the common aspects of the contemporary work scene.

1. A) Workers have significant choices and alternatives open to them in the workplace.
2. B) More jobs today are temporary, part-time, or subcontracted out to third parties.
3. C) Most workers will likely have no more than one or two jobs in a lifetime.
4. D) The social values of work, such as camaraderie and social status, are lost to part-time and temporary workers.

 

Answer:  C

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2) Which of the following statements is a classical interpretation of work?

1. A) Humans are intellectual, yet work is physical.
2. B) For cultured and civilized people, work is undignified.
3. C) Humans are free beings; work is a necessity.
4. D) Work diminishes human nature and human potential.
5. E) All of the answers are correct.
6. F) None of the answers are correct.

 

Answer:  E

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3) Which of these statements does not describe the hedonistic interpretation of work?

1. A) Work is the price we pay to get the necessities of life and other things that make life pleasurable.
2. B) Happiness is the enjoyment of cultural activities.
3. C) There is no specific content for human happiness.
4. D) Individuals are allowed to choose whatever ends they desire.

 

Answer:  B

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4) Which of the following statements is not true about the issues confronting business ethics?

1. A) Not every job contributes to the development of human potential.
2. B) The proper kind of workplace contributes to human development.
3. C) Jobs do not have the potential for influencing and shaping individuals.
4. D) Individuals exercise control over jobs.

 

Answer:  C

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5) Which of the following is a true expression of Marx’s concept of alienation?

1. A) Alienation is the result of low wages.
2. B) Alienation is the result of work that prevents the full development of human potential.
3. C) Alienation means the separation and distinction of one social class from another.
4. D) The capitalistic system does not inevitably mean a life of alienation for workers.

 

Answer:  B

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6) Select the statement that describes the human potentials that work can fulfill.

1. A) Work provides the occasion for developing talents and exercising creativity.
2. B) Through work, humans create their own society and culture and thereby their own identities.
3. C) Work expresses our nature as social beings.
4. D) Work allows us to experience our freedom and autonomy in making choices and directing our lives.
5. E) All of the answers are correct.
6. F) None of the answers are correct.

 

Answer:  E

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7) Indicate the statement that is not consistent with Bowie’s liberal theory of work.

1. A) One of the moral obligations of a firm is to provide meaningful work.
2. B) It is a simple enough task to find a justification for any objective, normative definition of meaningful work.
3. C) Meaningful work defined as nothing more than what employees say it is, is a subjective and individualistic definition of work.
4. D) The more people are compelled to work, the greater the responsibility to make sure that workplace conditions are as humane as possible.

 

Answer:  B

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8) How might a liberal have to respond to the suggestion that some workers might prefer to work at highly routine, unchallenging, and boring jobs?

1. A) Employers have no choice but to eliminate these jobs.
2. B) Employers have no obligation to eliminate these jobs.
3. C) These jobs do not necessarily suppress the human faculties of rational and autonomous choice.
4. D) While it may be true, on the one hand, that as long as no one is forcing employees to do these jobs, employers don’t have to eliminate them, it is also true that accepting the ethical legitimacy of these jobs violates the fundamental values of rational and free choice.

 

Answer:  D

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9) In the context of the meaning of work, which of the following statements is true?

1. A) Work means activities that involve perseverance, discipline, toil, usually performed with a degree of seriousness and concentration.
2. B) The meaning of work is likened with being idle, relaxing, playing, and activities such as reading a book or playing a round of golf.
3. C) Work does not include any task, accomplishment, or undertaking unless it generates an income.
4. D) An activity is not regarded as work unless the worker’s identity and the activity are “morally inseparable.”

 

Answer:  A

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10) Identify a true statement regarding a job.

1. A) A job is a role that one steps into and out of as a means for earning money.
2. B) A jobs refers to a tradition of work in which a person’s identity and activities are “morally inseparable.”
3. C) A job involves developing relationship between the self and the activity.
4. D) A job enables the evolution of social status and self-esteem in ways that a career does not.

 

Answer:  A

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11) The value of housework and child care have systematically been undervalued by social programs such as Social Security, unemployment insurance, and many public policies concerned with marriage and divorce.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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12) A job might be described simply as work in which self-identity and the activity are independent of each other.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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13) It is its potential to be intimately connected to our deepest values that makes the meaning and value of work have important implications for the structure and operation of the workplace.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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14) According to the classical interpretation of work, happiness is simply getting whatever one wants.

 

Answer:  FALSE

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15) The human fulfillment model of work believes that work is the primary means for developing human potential.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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16) According to the human fulfillment model, the psychological and social benefits of work do not reduce to merely subjective and personal values.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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17) Karl Marx was sure that industrial capitalism inevitably, necessarily, alienates workers from the product of their work, from the creative process of work, and from their very essence as social creatures.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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18) Both liberals who believe that the ethical assessment of work should be based on how work affects the workers’ ability to make free and autonomous decisions about their lives and the human fulfillment school that makes that judgment on the basis of what makes a good meaningful human life are saying essentially the same thing.

 

Answer:  FALSE

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19) The idea that the meaning and value of work is whatever the workers determine that it is simply doesn’t challenge in any significant way Bowie’s contention that employers have an obligation to provide meaningful work.

 

Answer:  FALSE

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20) Primary goods are those goods that are necessary in order to achieve whatever other goods an individual chooses to pursue.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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21) To the degree that work can be intellectual, leisurely, and free, it can be meaningful; employment and wage labor are as likely to attain these conditions.

 

Answer:  FALSE

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22) Social conditions of routine, unchallenging, boring jobs tend to suppress the human faculties of rational and autonomous choice.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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23) The critics of work-life balance practices believe that work can be a central part of an individual’s identity and it can have significant benefits for people.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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24) The Greek philosopher Aristotle disparaged work because of its very necessary, and therefore slavish, nature.

 

Answer:  TRUE

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