Business Ethics A Textbook with Cases International Edition 7th Edition by William H. Shaw - Test Bank

Business Ethics A Textbook with Cases International Edition 7th Edition by William H. Shaw – Test Bank

 

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Part One: Chapter One: The Nature of Morality

 

Multiple Choice (24)

 

1. Ethics addresses the question of
2. whether God exists
3. what we know
4. how we should live
5. what we are

 

2. Ethics does not investigate questions of
3. duty and obligation
4. mind and body
5. fairness and unfairness
6. good and bad

 

3. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes good and bad human conduct in a
4. business setting
5. academic setting
6. heavenly setting
7. utopian setting

 

4. Who discussed whether a merchant should tell people more goods similar to his are on their way?
5. Plato
6. Seneca
7. Aristotle
8. Cicero

 

5. Business ethics dates to
6. The Modern period
7. The Renaissance
8. Ancient times
9. The Industrial Revolution

 

6. “Business” and “businessperson” are
7. technical terms
8. narrow terms
9. broad terms
10. colloquial terms

 

7. The objective of businesses is to provide goods or services for
8. profit
9. sale
10. free
11. rent
12. A group of persons working together for a common purpose is
13. a club
14. a business
15. a committee
16. an organization

 

9. Moral standards concern behavior that is
10. of serious consequence to human welfare
11. subject to legal assessment
12. performed only by businesses
13. of trivial importance

 

10. Whether you should copy a pirated DVD on your office computer is a
11. technical question
12. factual question
13. moral question
14. business question

 

11. What term generally refers to any special code of social behavior?
12. morality
13. business
14. etiquette
15. deontology

 

12. Rules of etiquette are generally
13. old-fashioned
14. nonmoral
15. judgmental
16. utilitarian

 

13. Laws enacted by legislative bodies are called
14. torts
15. statutes
16. common law
17. liabilities

 

14. Common law is
15. judge-made law
16. legislative law
17. arbitrary law
18. statute law

 

15. Who did Martin Luther King Jr. address his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to?
16. the courts
17. fellow clergy
18. fellow protestors
19. fellow convicts

 

16. Professional codes of ethics lie somewhere between
17. etiquette and law
18. right and wrong
19. law and morality
20. facts and values

 

17. For philosophers, the important question is
18. where our moral principles come from
19. whether our moral principles can be justified
20. where our moral principles are going
21. whether our moral principles are legal

 

18. Any religion provides its believers with a
19. worldview
20. church
21. established clergy
22. God

 

19. The Golden Rule represents
20. one of humankind’s lowest moral requirements
21. a rule applicable to all sentient beings
22. one of humankind’s highest moral ideals
23. a rule that is self-contradictory

 

20. The idea that morality must be based n religion can be interpreted in
21. two ways
22. three ways
23. four ways
24. five ways

 

21. The moral instructions of the world’s great religions are
22. general and imprecise
23. precise and specific
24. inapplicable to modern life
25. only applicable to believers

 

22. The view that what is right is determined by what a culture says is right is
23. deontology
24. utilitarianism
25. virtue ethics
26. ethical relativism

 

23. Carr defends a form of
24. virtue ethics
25. ethical relativism
26. deontology
27. utilitarianism

 

24. The tendency to let the behavior of those around us dictate our response in emergencies is known as
25. ethical relativism
26. bystander apathy
27. morality in the narrow sense
28. cultural programming

 

 

True/False Questions (12)

 

T          1. Sometimes the rich and might fall.

 

T          2. Sometimes professional codes of ethics are unwritten.

 

F          3. Professional codes of ethics are always specific.

 

T          4. Religion involves prescriptions for social relationships.

 

F          5. Ethical relativism holds that there are objective and universal moral standards.

 

F          6. Our conscience is literally a little voice inside us.

 

T          7. Morality in the narrow sense concerns the principles that do or should regulate people’s conduct and relations with each other.

 

T          8. Aristotle held that there is more to living a morally good life than being good at your job.

 

T          9. Pressure to meet corporate goals can lead people to act unethically.

 

F          10. According to the American Management Association pressure to meet realistic business deadlines if the leading cause of unethical business conduct.

 

T          11. The diffusion of responsibility inside an organization leads individuals to have a diluted sense of their own moral responsibility.

 

F          12. Aristotle denied that there is an excellent we can achieve as human beings.

 

 

Essay Questions (6)

 

1. In what way could Carr’s views concerning bluffing in business be extended to bluffing in dating? Do you believe that bluffing in either of these contexts is ethically acceptable? Why, or why not? What do you answers tell you about your views concerning the plausibility of ethical relativism?

 

2. Do you believe that businessmen have a duty to reveal all the information that they have about their products and its merits vis-à-vis those of their rivals to consumers? Why, or why not? If not, do you believe that they have a duty to reveal any of this information—or should the “buyer beware”? If they do have a duty to reveal some of this information, how extensive is this duty? Do you believe that this duty could vary by industry? Why, or why not?

 

3. Do you believe that business ethics is a specific area of philosophical inquiry, or not? Do you think that its concerns could be subsumed into the general field of ethics? Why do you think as you do?

 

4. Do you believe that there is a role for professional ethicists in business settings? Why, or why not? If not, why not? If you do, why—and what do you envision their role as being?

 

5. In what ways are professional codes of ethics, moral rules, legal requirements, and the requirements of etiquette different from each other?

 

6. Must morality come from God? Why, or why not? If you believe that it does, do you believe that God has a reason for giving us the commands that he does, or do you believe that they exists merely on his whim? If the former, could we discover these reasons and act morally without God? If the latter, why should we can, morally, about God’s whims?