Compliance with the "letter" of the law and nothing more is usually called:
C.
Assume that Carmela had not actually been so passive in this situation, but rather, she was in fact guiding her father on how to proceed with the lawsuit. Do you think that the court would have been so lenient with her? Why or why not?
B.
What kind of suits can be filed in a federal district court?
Federal court jurisdiction extends to federal questions and to diversity of citizenship cases.
What does it mean to say that “professionalism does not end at the courtroom door”?
Professional conduct for judges extends to their actions outside of the courtroom, such as in their dealings with others in a non-judicial context.
Al-Dabagh v. Case Western Reserve University
What is the issue in this case?
Should a court defer to a universitiy’s determination that a student lacks the professionalism required to graduate?
What is the rule of law in the context of academic discretion?
A university has the right to determine its own academic curriculum and how students should be judged by it.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is:
B.
Before reading this case, you learned about stakeholders. Under what circumstances do stakeholders have a greater stake in company decisions than do shareholders?
A.
Under the utilitarian model of ethics, the following is true:
A.
Ethics can be defined as the study of
B.
Business ethics does NOT focus on:
B.
In the theory of profit (maximization/minimization/characterization), resources flow to where they are (least valued/most highly valued/ most critical) by society, allowing businesses to focus on their (weaknesses/strengths/workforce issues)
maximization, most valued, strengths
Some companies have begun to focus their decision making on the triple bottom line. Which three of the following are the three key concepts of the triple bottom line?
a. corporate profits
b. the impact of profits on the government
c. the impact of profits on worker safety
d. the impact of profits on people
e. the impact of profits on the planet
f. the corporate costs
g. the impact of profits on prices
ADE
When making decisions, a business should evaluate the _____ implications of each option, the public relations impact, the safety risks for ____ and employees, and the financial implications.
Fill in the blanks with words that would best complete the passage.
legal regulators employment private consumers
legal
consumers
6. Business ethics are consistent only with short-run profit maximization.
a. True
b. False
False
b. False
An in-depth understanding of ethics is important to the long-term viability of a business because unethical decisions will negatively and directly impact all of the following except which one?
A.
Compliance with the law is sometimes called the
D.
If a company chooses to do something that is legal, that decision also will always be ethical.
False
Most companies attempt to link law and ethics by
D.
Businesses may face many ethical issues with regard to social media.
True
A company may not have a social media policy that prohibits making negative statements about the company or any of its employees because:
B.
The application of morals and ethics to a situation is usually called ethical___. This study is typically divided into two major categories. The first,___ ethics, is often founded in religion or philosophy. The second,___ ethics, focuses on the impacts of a decision on___ .
Fill in the blanks with words that would best complete the passage.
outcome-based; reasoning; duty based; acting; religions; categorically-based; stakeholders; employees
reasoning
duty-based
outcome-based
stakeholders
Religious ethical principles allow managers to make decisions with few possible negative consequences.
FALSE
One view of duty-based ethics focuses on the principle of rights. Choose the four groups whose rights may be affected by business decisions.
a. Government officials
b. Consumers
c. Suppliers
d. Regulatory agency workers
e. Shareholders
f. Employees
g. Foreign officials
Consumers
Suppliers
Shareholders
Employees
The application of the principle of rights, or rights theory, often involves conflicting rights.
True
_____identified several general guiding principles for moral behavior.
B.
The idea that individuals should evaluate their actions in light of the consequences that would follow if everyone in society acted in the same way is known as the:
B.
_____ is a philosophical theory developed by two British philosophers, Bentham and Mill.
B.
A major premise of the ___ approach to ethics is "the greatest good for the greatest number." Thus, an action is morally ___ when it creates the ___ amount of harm for the fewest people. A ___ analysis involves assessing the negative and positive effects of alternative actions.
Fill in the blanks with words that would best complete the passage.
least; utilitarian; right; most; decisive; social; cost-benefit; efficient
utilitarian
right
least
cost-benefit
The utilitarian approach to decision making has been seen as problematic by some because even the greatest good to the greatest number may create unacceptable harm to the few.
True
Corporate social responsibility combines a commitment to good corporate citizenship with a commitment to making ethical decisions, improving society, and minimizing environmental impact.
true
Corporate social responsibility is a relatively ___concept, and ___ imposed on corporations by law.
B.
Under the theory of corporate social responsibility, many corporations publish reports outlining how they are good corporate citizens. These are often called:
A.
Corporate social responsibility is most successful when a company undertakes activities that
A.
Customers, creditors, suppliers, employees and the community in which a business operates are all:
A.
All shareholders are stakeholders and all stakeholders are shareholders.
False
Bernard is the owner and manager of a small auto-parts store. He thinks that talking about business ethics with employees takes time that would be better spent paying attention to customers. He also does not believe that he has a right to tell other people how they should behave. Is Bernard likely to create an ethical workplace with this way of thinking? Why or why not?
C.
Rupert and Cordelia own an American company that does business in foreign nations. Getting a license in a new country can be challenging. As they try to enter into business in a new country, Rupert fills out the license paperwork and takes it to the correct office. There, he pays the front-desk person $100 to process the paperwork, as is the custom in that country. Cordelia, who has connections in that country, schedules an appointment with the minister of commerce, who has the authority to determine which foreign companies get licenses, and pays him $200 to approve their license. Which payment(s) likely violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?
C.
Bribery is acceptable in certain foreign countries. Indeed, U.S. Development, Inc., has found that the only way it can ensure delivery on certain contracts in these countries is to bribe the officials. This is:
B.
Regan owns and manages The Coffee Shoppe. She likes to experiment with different management styles and life philosophies. She recently studied Kantian ethics and asks her employees to begin following Kant's categorical imperative at work. This means that the employees should:
A.
The upper-level management of Nationwide Sales Corporation wants to fire Andy because he is a nonproductive employee. Using a utilitarian approach to business ethics, management would probably consider:
B.
Marshall owns and operates a construction firm. He uses inexpensive and low-grade building products and accepts inferior carpentry work from his subcontractors. Nevertheless, Marshall complies with all the city building codes as well as all state and federal laws. Has he fulfilled all of his ethical obligations?
C.
James worked for a corporation that measured its success in terms of short-term profits. James truly believed that the company could be a better company, and make more money, if it changed its strategy to focus on being a good citizen and by giving back to the community. These beliefs likely:
D.
Cora owns a Christian bookstore and tries to run it in accordance with Judeo-Christian values. Cora learns that Margo, one of her employees, has been taking money from the cash register and giving it to homeless people who come into the store. Under an analysis of duty-based ethics with a religious foundation, Margo's behavior is:
B.
Patrick, the human resources manager at Acme Company, must decide how to cut personnel costs. This decision will harm employees who are laid off or fired. Patrick must balance the interests of employees who have been loyal to the firm for a long time against the interests of:
A.
Jane Sanderson worked in a travel-service office and had access to the reservation systems of several airlines. She accessed the system and replaced the names of passengers with fictitious names. She also enrolled the fake names in the airlines' frequent-flyer programs. Her husband set up mailboxes under those names for the delivery of free airline tickets "earned" under the frequent-flyer programs. Real passengers were not harmed by and did not complain of the deception. The Sandersons' behavior was:
A.
Duane and Elizabeth start a business manufacturing pencil and pen holders out of recycled materials. They draft a mission statement where they declare that they are committed to environmentalism and to using their profits to improve the quality of life of the homeless. The declaration of beliefs in a mission statement is most often associated with:
B.
Jeff believes in the principle of rights theory and uses it to make ethical decisions for his business. He must decide whether to expand his business into Asia. Several key employees do not want the business to expand overseas and have threatened to quit if Jeff makes this move. Under the principle of rights theory, he will make this decision by considering:
A.
Carly is a manager at a business. When she has a job opening, she regularly does Internet searches on applicants to see if they have social media accounts. If so, she reviews whatever she can access. Her findings, or lack of findings, go into her notes and may influence whether she interviews and ultimately hires an applicant. Carly's actions are:
D.
Gamma corporation, an American company, signs a contract with Theta corporation, a company from another nation, where Theta will provide Gamma with certain raw materials. Because of the economy in its nation, there are many more people looking for jobs than there are jobs available. Theta hires employees at extremely low wages and does not maintain facilities up to American standards. Newspapers accuse Gamma of engaging in unethical behavior. Is Gamma's behavior ethical?
C.
Chie runs a business and is committed to the triple bottom line. This means that she is concerned with:
C.
Jason Trevor owns a commercial bakery in Blakely, Georgia that produces a variety of goods sold in grocery stores. Trevor is required by law to perform internal tests on food produced at his plant to check for contamination. During one three month period, three tests of food products containing peanut butter were positive for salmonella contamination. Trevor was not legally required to report the results to U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials, so he did not. Instead, Trevor instructed his employees to repeat the tests until the results were negative. Meanwhile, the products that had originally tested positive for salmonella were eventually shipped out to retailers. Five people who ate Trevor’s baked goods that year became seriously ill, and one person died from a salmonella infection.
Ethics is the study of what is ____ or _____.
right; wrong
According to the text, there are four different aspects of a decision that a business should evaluate in order to maximize profits and be a good corporate citizen. Those four items, in order, are the ___ implications of the decision, the ___ impact, the ___ for consumers and employees, and the ___ implications.
Legal
Public relations
Safety risk
Financial
In evaluating the first of the four factors, Trevor should determine whether his failure to report the results to the Food and Drug Administration are a violation of ___
A.
In this case, Trevor ___ have a legal duty to perform internal tests on food produced at his plant to check for contamination. Trevor ___ have a legal duty to report the initial test results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
D.
Merely complying with the law is known as the
A.
In evaluating the second factor, Trevor should analyze what the might say if the shipped food caused sickness or death.
