Business Ethics Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Business Ethics explores the principles and standards of ethical behavior in the business environment, examining how individuals and organizations can navigate complex moral dilemmas in the workplace. The course covers foundational ethical theories, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder management, and the ethical implications of decision-making in areas such as marketing, finance, and human resources. Through case studies and real-world examples, students will develop critical thinking skills to recognize and resolve ethical issues, fostering responsible leadership and ethical practices in a global business context.
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Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership 6th Edition by Craig E. Johnson
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Chapter 1: The Leaders Light or Shadow
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Q1) ______ is lying and giving false or misleading information.
A) Abuse
B) Deceit
C) Cruelty
D) Coercion
Answer: B
Q2) Impression management can be compared to a performance on a stage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Many of history's villains are traitors.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is one example of a/an ______ leader.
A) insular
B) evil
C) corrupt
D) toxic
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows
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Q1) With moral ______, leaders persuade themselves that their harmful behavior is actually moral and beneficial.
A) imagination
B) reasoning
C) justification
D) driving
Answer: C
Q2) ______ are conformers who are needy and vulnerable.
A) Lost souls
B) Bystanders
C) Acolytes
D) Authoritarians
Answer: A
Q3) To make the most of feedback and challenges, leaders need support.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Name the three indicators of leader selfishness.
Answer: See section on Selfishness
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Chapter 3: The Leaders Character
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Q1) ______ are repeated behaviors or routines that foster virtuous behavior.
A) Values
B) Habits
C) Ethics
D) Roles
Answer: B
Q2) Describe a time when hardship or suffering helped you to develop character. Classify the hardship according to the categories described in the text and identify what you learned.
Answer: One time when hardship helped me develop character was when I faced financial struggles during college. This hardship falls under the category of adversity. I learned the importance of resilience and perseverance during this time. I had to work multiple jobs while attending school full-time in order to make ends meet. This experience taught me the value of hard work and determination. It also helped me develop a strong work ethic and the ability to prioritize and manage my time effectively. Overall, this hardship taught me the importance of resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity.
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Chapter 4: Combating Evil
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Q1) Dispute resolution expert Susan Opotow believes that moral exclusion progresses through five states or elements that reinforce one another and can become a vicious cycle that ends in death and destruction. What are these five states?
Q2) Bringing warring groups together begins with
A) rejecting revenge in favor of restraint
B) empathy for the enemies' humanity
C) commitment to restore the broken relationship
D) recalling the past and rendering a judgment
Q3) In the four strands that explain how warring groups can bind together, ______ is used to restore the broken relationship.
A) empathy
B) commitment
C) forbearance
D) moral truth
Q4) Describe the benefits of apologies.
Q5) What role should spirituality play in shaping a leader's ethical decisions and behavior? Defend your position.
Q6) What are some of the improvements spirituality can make in the workplace?
Q7) Discuss some of the "wrong" ways to apologize.
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Chapter 5: General Ethical Perspectives
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Q1) ______ argued that we should never treat people as a means to an end.
A) Kant
B) Gandhi
C) Dewey
D) Bentham
Q2) ______ altruistic behaviors include team building, participative group decision-making, and minority advancement programs.
A) Organizational-focused
B) Individual-focused
C) Group-focused
D) Societal-focused
Q3) Altruism appears to be a universal value.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the cautions of utilitarianism is that there may be unanticipated consequences.
A)True
B)False
Q5) As a follower, how can you resist bad leaders?
Q6) Explain why altruism is more important to leaders than followers.
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making and Behavior
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Q1) Develop your own decision-making format. Outline each step and explain why it is important.
Q2) Psychologists report that self-interest and _________ undermine moral motivation.
A) hypocrisy
B) ethics
C) fear
D) hate
Q3) In the maintaining norms schema, people believe they have a moral obligation to maintain social order.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the Lonergan/Baird Method, Step 2 is to ______ and sort through the data.
A) be attentive
B) be intelligent
C) be reasonable
D) be responsible
Q5) Name and describe Kohlberg's first level of moral development.
Q6) List the five ethical blind spots listed in the text under Component 2.
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Chapter 7: Exercising Ethical Influence
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Q1) According to Kassing's five strategies, threatening resignation means taking dissent to someone above the immediate supervisor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ______ is the tendency to live up to the expectations others place on us.
A) Hawthorne effect
B) Golem effect
C) bystander effect
D) Pygmalion effect
Q3) Argument is constructive, while ______ aggression is destructive.
A) verbal
B) open
C) hidden
D) nonverbal
Q4) Discuss Fisher, Ury, and Patton's four steps of principled negotiation.
Q5) Discuss the elements from Toulmin's model that can help you in developing an argument.
Q6) Leaders of all kinds engage in negotiation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Normative Leadership Theories
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Q1) Which of the following is a true statement about authentic leadership?
A) Authenticity is an inherited leadership trait
B) Authenticity improves leadership performance
C) Authenticity is one of many sources of ethical leadership
D) None of these
Q2) Think about a leader you know who is an aesthetic (beautiful) leader. What qualities does this person possess that makes them an aesthetic (beautiful) leader? According to the text, what are some of the characteristics of an aesthetic (beautiful) leader?
Q3) What common threads or themes do you note in the five normative leadership theories described in the chapter?
Q4) Evaluate the Taoist approach to leadership. What are its advantages and disadvantages? Could you follow Taoist principles as a leader? Why or why not?
Q5) According to Bass and Avolio, what are the characteristics of transformational leadership?
Q6) Pseudo-transformational leaders promote cooperation and harmony.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Name and explain the components of transformational leadership.
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Chapter 9: Building an Effective, Ethical Small Group
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Q1) Creativity and change are both positive outcomes of substantive conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following factors contribute MOST to the Abilene paradox?
A) Fear of separation
B) Real risk
C) Action anxiety
D) Negative fantasies
Q3) The 911 operators demonstrate the importance of ______ listening.
A) active
B) discriminative
C) ethical
D) comprehensive
Q4) ______ is used to describe the fact that individuals often reduce their efforts when placed in a group.
A) Social thinking
B) Groupthink
C) Social loafing
D) Social idea
Q5) Identify five strategies for resisting groupthink.
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Chapter 10: Creating an Ethical Organizational Climate
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Q1) ______ discovers core values by identifying and building on organizational strengths.
A) Reliability
B) Civility
C) Integrity
D) Appreciative inquiry
Q2) Justice in the workplace takes all of these forms EXCEPT:
A) procedural
B) interactional
C) distributive
D) relational
Q3) Discuss the four elements of an organization's structure that have a particularly strong impact on moral behavior.
Q4) ______ describes perceptions of consistent and dependable behavior.
A) Reliability
B) Civility
C) Integrity
D) Appreciative inquiry
Q5) Develop a strategy for preventing destructive behaviors in your organization.
Q6) Define the term "core ideology."
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Chapter 11: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in a Global Society
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Q1) Those living in assertive, ______ cultures are tempted to engage in unethical activities in order to succeed.
A) performance-oriented
B) masculine
C) uncertainty-avoidant
D) power distance
Q2) In ______ cultures, there are clear differences in the roles of men and women.
A) feminine
B) masculine
C) uncertainty-avoidant
D) collectivistic
Q3) Bribery is more common in collectivist societies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Broken communication cast shadows in a global society just as they do in individual leader-follower relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Name the four features of cultures. Provide an original example for each element.
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Chapter 12: Ethical Crisis Leadership
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Q1) ______ is defined as "a firm's ability to make decisions based on comprehensive information and analysis."
A) Expertise
B) Rationality
C) Resilience
D) Transparency
Q2) Identify and debunk the five unethical beliefs about crisis management.
Q3) ______ during the postcrisis stage determines what members might have overlooked.
A) Reconsidering structure
B) Retrospective sensemaking
C) Vicarious learning
D) Discourse of renewal
Q4) Human bias is a barrier to crisis prevention.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Deep social capital is one of the markers of a resilient organizational culture.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define "ethical rationality."
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