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Course Introduction
Business Ethics explores the ethical principles and moral issues that arise in the context of business practice. The course examines topics such as corporate social responsibility, ethical decision-making, stakeholder theory, sustainability, and the impact of globalization on ethical conduct. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students learn to analyze real-world dilemmas faced by businesses and managers, evaluating solutions from legal, cultural, and ethical perspectives. The course aims to foster critical thinking, personal integrity, and responsible leadership in the business environment.
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Society Ethics and Technology 5th Edition by Morton Winston
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Q1) What piece of infrastructure was built in London in response to three outbreaks of cholera?
A) Telegraph lines to report outbreaks
B) Ports to quarantine the sick
C) Sewers to get rid of waste water
D) Ports to bring in more shipments of medicine
Answer: C
Q2) What was the key machine in Mahatma Ghandi's ideal world?
A) The clock
B) The sewing machine
C) The spindle machine
D) The spinning wheel
Answer: D
Q3) What did congestion bring in its wake?
A) Health
B) Disease
C) Automobiles
D) The powergrid
Answer: B
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Q1) Who is most closely associated with the metaphor of the panopticon?
A) Foucault
B) Habermas
C) Dyer
D) Held
Answer: A
Q2) Who developed the seven key "sites of power"?
A) Habermas
B) Held
C) Kuhn
D) Dyer
Answer: B
Q3) Who perfected an electric generator in 1831?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Michael Faraday
C) Thomas Edison
D) Alexander Graham Bell
Answer: B
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Q1) What is "intentionality"?
A) The property of acting intentionally
B) The property of about-ness
C) The property of being deliberate
D) The property of deliberation
Answer: B
Q2) Where do Johnson and Powers locate agency?
A) In the designer and user
B) In the user
C) In the artifact and the user
D) In the designer, user and artifact
Answer: D
Q3) Who holds that we are living on an increasingly anthropogenic planet?
A) Feinberg
B) Rawls
C) Allenby
D) Mill
Answer: C
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Q1) Who or what killed TIPS?
A) Congress
B) Homeland Security
C) The Patriot Act
D) Media outrage
Q2) Stanley and Steinhardt accuse the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of hindering what type of privacy for Americans?
A) At home
B) Workplace
C) Genetic
D) Financial
Q3) How much does the Teal Group estimate the aerial drone industry will be worth per year over the next decade?
A) $100 billion
B) $11.3 billion
C) $111.3 billion
D) $100 million
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Q1) According to Operto,what other systems besides robotics may contribute to solving many open human issues?
A) Cryogenics Systems
B) Digital Economic Systems
C) Eugenics Systems
D) Bionics Systems
Q2) What does Movellan point out are innate to human babies that would have to be programmed into a robot?
A) Ambition
B) Needs
C) Emotion
D) Knowledge
Q3) What is the name of Hiroshi Ishiguro's robotic double?
A) Babybot
B) Infanoid
C) Robovie
D) Geminoid
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Q1) What does "GNR" stand for?
A) Genetic nanotechnological respiration
B) Genetics, nanoscience, and robotics
C) Globular nano-respirocytes
D) Genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics
Q2) What areas has Bill McKibben,one of the first environmentalists to warn against the dangers of global warming,specifically suggested relinquishing,according to Kurzweil?
A) Biotechnology and motor vehicles
B) Warp technology and nanotechnology
C) Biotechnology and nanotechnology
D) Biotechnology and biochemistry
Q3) An S-Curve is another term for what?
A) Sigmoid function
B) Gompertz curve
C) Moore's law
D) Paradigm shift
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Q1) Which Italian humanist worried that the printing press would make intellectuals lazy and less studious?
A) Hieronimo Squarciafico
B) Leonardo Di Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Galileo Galilei
Q2) What concept describes the values or assumptions that become manifest in technological design?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
Q3) What is the notion that science and technology have a symbiotic relationship,each one helping the other,while social values shape the precise forms that technological artifacts take?
A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology
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Q1) What value is appealed to by those who oppose cloning on the grounds that it violates a child's right to an open future?
A) Well-being
B) Fairness
C) Autonomy
D) Humanity
Q2) Who held that "repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom"?
A) Kass
B) Huxley
C) Asimov
D) Kant
Q3) Who discovered the structure of DNA?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Watson and Diller
C) Diller and Crick
D) Diller and James
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Q1) What is now central to the goals of many international organizations,national institutions,and transnational corporations?
A) Globalization
B) Privatization
C) Sustainable development
D) Transparency
Q2) Which tree does Robert W.Kates focus on in his article in this volume?
A) Olive
B) Oak
C) Neem
D) Maple
Q3) How high do demographers expect the population to be when it peaks and in what year?
A) 2020 at 8 billion
B) 2050 at 9 billion
C) 2100 at 10 billion
D) 2233 at 20 billion
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