Business Ethics
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Course Introduction
Business Ethics explores the fundamental principles and ethical challenges that arise in the modern business world. This course introduces students to key concepts such as corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory, and ethical decision-making frameworks. Case studies and real-world examples are used to examine issues like workplace diversity, environmental sustainability, truth in advertising, and fair treatment of employees. Students will develop critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills to recognize and address ethical dilemmas in a variety of business settings, preparing them to act responsibly and ethically in their future careers.
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Law and Ethics in the Business Environment 8th Edition by Terry Halbert
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Chapter 1: Law, Ethics, Business: An Introduction
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Q1) According to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which of the following is not a reason to allow corporations the right to spend money and advertise for political candidates?
A) Political speech is the most important, and most protected, speech that exists. It is crucial to the democratic process that political speech be encouraged and heard.
B) The immense wealth of a corporation allows it to be the most accurate in providing messages to people.
C) Independent expenditure by corporations do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
D) Rapid changes in technology suggest laws restricting political speech should not be upheld.
Answer: B
Q2) Laws must be static and unyielding in order to provide stability for a society. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Duty of Loyalty: Whistleblowing
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Q1) As discussed in the text, False Claims Act or qui tam suits have been successful in the health care industry. The text mentions several things that all these successful claims have in common. Discuss those things.
Answer: (1) All qui tam plaintiffs tried to fix the problems internally before they went to the outside; (2) all were told that the behavior they were concerned about was either legal or were told to drop the complaint; (3) very few intended from the start to use the qui tam process; (4) none blew the whistle out of any concern for money, but instead were concerned with public health and safety; and (5) most of them found the process incredibly grueling.
Q2) When Qui Tam whistleblowers against the pharmaceutical industry were questioned about their motivation, several reasons were mentioned. Which of the following was NOT given as a reason?
A) Potential risk to public health.
B) Unfair employment practices.
C) Financial reward.
D) Self-preservation.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Privacy and Technology
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Q1) Name the two main factors that most courts use in determining whether or not electronic monitoring of employees is an invasion of privacy.
Answer: (1) The obnoxiousness of the means to intrude. In other words, is the method used a deviation from the normal, accepted means of discovering relevant information and (2) the reasons for intruding.
Q2) According to the article, Can They Do That? By Lew Maltby:
A) A job candidate who has been arrested will probably not be disqualified unless the candidate was found guilty.
B) Psychological tests are a good way to determine a job candidate's honesty.
C) Employees who are being treated unfairly can protect themselves by joining a union. D) Credit score can keep you from getting a job, even if it doesn't involve handling money.
Answer: D
Q3) It is perfectly legal for employers to secretly and intrusively spy on their employees.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Valuing Diversity: Stereotyping v Inclusion
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Q1) Equal protection is the constitutional guarantee:
A) that empowers Congress to regulate equally distributed commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.
B) that laws made in pursuance of the Constitution and all treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be the equally protected as the "supreme law of the land."
C) embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
D) that grants and distributes power and responsibilities to national and state governments.
Q2) Describe the term heightened scrutiny. What do the courts use to determine which type of scrutiny to use?
Q3) Title VII specifically addresses the issues of affirmative action, sexual harassment, and same-sex marriage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to sociologists, what is society's image of a good mother? A good father? How do those images impact how parents who chose to balance their work life with family (i.e. work part time) are viewed?
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Chapter 5: Workers Rights as Human Rights: Health and Safety
in the Global Workplace
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Q1) Discuss how corporate criminal liability has been handled by OSHA since 1970.
Q2) Typically individual stockholders are not held responsible for the actions of a corporation. Exceptions usually relate to comingling of funds, underinsuring, or similar actions by the corporate leadership. This is called:
A) risking liability
B) piercing the corporate veil
C) the privilege of the stockholders
D) free market trading of stocks
Q3) According to Dr. Michael Silverstein, what are the types of risks workers find on the job today?
Q4) Explain what the Workers Rights Consortium is and what it has done to combat sweatshops.
Q5) When an employee files a worker's compensation claim:
A) The employee must prove the company was negligent.
B) The employer has the right to raise traditional defenses to negligence to defeat the claim.
C) Both a. and b.
D) Neither a. not b.
Q6) Explain how worker's compensation in the U.S. works.
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Chapter 6: Environmental Law and Justice: Responsibility and Survival
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Q1) When environmentalists recognized that politicians were not going to pass stricter legislation and regulations, they changed their tactics to force change. According to the Layzer article in the chapter, these new tactics included:
I. Portray the science of global warming as uncertain and debatable
II. Focus on the financial costs of regulation
III. Provide Senators and Representatives with financial incentives to vote against regulation
IV. Portray the environmentalists as extremists and a vocal minority.
A) I and II
B) II and III
C) III and IV
D) II, III and IV.
Q2) Explain the Crisis of Agrobiodiversity as explained by Carmen G. Gonzalez.
Q3) Which piece of legislation was passed first?
A) The Clean Water Act
B) The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
C) The Clean Air Act
D) The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Q4) Explain how the tradeable permit plan works.
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Chapter 7: Marketing and Technology: Choice and Manipulation
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Q1) Discuss the standards of the Creative Code of the American Associate of Advertising Agencies.
Q2) The debate over advertising fast food and other "junk foods" to kids is in effect settled, since federal and state laws have put limits on that advertising.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Obesity in children has continued to rise since 1976 and approximately ¾ of all teens and youth are overweight.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs began in the late 1980's to early 1990's. Based on the information in the Norplant case in the text, discuss the reasons why it should or should not be allowed.
Q5) According to the Learned Intermediary Rule, pharmaceutical manufacturers do not have to warm consumers about drug dangers as long as they have adequately warned physicians.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Allocating Risk and Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace:
Products Liability
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Q1) Discuss Sugarman's "Performance-based regulation." Is this a viable means to create safer products or is it unnecessary government interference?
Q2) The most notable exception to caveat emptor was for
A) Food
B) Automobiles
C) Clothing
D) Shoes
Q3) Compare the regulation of biotechnology in the United States to that of the European Union.
Q4) To win a suit for negligence, a plaintiff must establish that the defendant:
I. breached its duty of care
II. created an unreasonable risk of harm
III. acted with total disregard to the harm that could result
IV. behavior was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries
A) I and II only
B) II and III only
C) I, II and IV only
D) I, II, III and IV
Q5) What are punitive damages?
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Q6) Explain the features of Section 402A of the Restatement of Torts (Second).
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Chapter 9: Ownership, Creativity and Innovation: Intellectual Property
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Q1) Why was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed?
Q2) Give a brief description of the increased protection in U.S. Copyright laws starting in 1994 and using approximate dates.
Q3) Discuss the Fair Use Doctrine. What are the four statutory factors used to determine if a use is fair?
Q4) In a lawsuit for copyright infringement, a defendant can avoid liability by successfully arguing _________, based on the notion that the free flow of ideas sometimes requires quoting or borrowing from a copyrighted work.
A) collective rights
B) misappropriation
C) unlimited use
D) fair use
Q5) Once the copyright on a work has expired,
A) The owner can renew it for a new term
B) The work is in the public domain
C) The work becomes the property of the government
D) The work is considered no longer creative
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Q6) What must a plaintiff prove to establish copyright infringement?
Q7) Discuss how intellectual property is different from other kinds of property.
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