Ethical Leadership Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Ethical Leadership examines the principles, challenges, and practices of leading with integrity in diverse organizational and social contexts. The course explores the foundations of ethical theory, moral decision-making, and the role of personal values in leadership. Students analyze real-world case studies, evaluate dilemmas faced by contemporary leaders, and develop frameworks for ethical reasoning. Emphasizing the importance of transparency, accountability, and social responsibility, the course prepares future leaders to foster ethical climates, resolve conflicts, and positively influence their organizations and communities.
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Business and Society Ethics Sustainability and Stakeholder Management 10th Edition by Carroll
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Chapter 1: The Business and Society Relationship
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Q1) CEOs such as Virginia Rometty of IBM or Tim Cook of Apple hold which level of power?
A) macro
B) micro
C) individual
D) intermediate
Answer: C
Q2) The ____ is a result of the growing numbers of individuals and groups who see themselves as having been victimized by society.
A) Rights Movement
B) Entitlement Mentality
C) Revolution of Rising Expectations
D) Victimization philosophy
Answer: D
Q3) When speaking of business in the collective sense, the textbook will most often be focusing on big business.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility, Citizenship, and Sustainability
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Q1) The CSR Pyramid is a stakeholder model--that is, each of its components addresses different stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The modern era of corporate social responsibility (from the 1950s to today)
A) emphasizes general awareness of social and moral concerns.
B) has seen decreased awareness of the issue.
C) emphasizes specific issues.
D) is marked by legislation requiring ethical business behavior.
Answer: C
Q3) Financial returns from socially conscious investment funds are
A) competitive with returns from other investments.
B) higher than returns from other investments.
C) slightly lower than returns from other investments.
D) much lower than returns from other investments.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The Stakeholder Approach to Business, Society, and Ethics
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Q1) Some authors now argue that stakeholder inclusion is the key to corporate success.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is not recognized as a type of stake?
A) an interest
B) an option
C) a right
D) ownership
Answer: B
Q3) The descriptive value of the stakeholder model is based in its ability to identify and describe particular stakeholders for the firm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The stakeholder view of the firm is now universally accepted.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Corporate Governance: Foundational Issues
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Q1) Discuss the role of shareholder democracy in corporate governance.
Q2) Why are church groups particularly visible in the shareholder activist movement?
Q3) Personal liability for a corporate board member means that
A) directors have a legal obligation to pay all debts of the corporation.
B) directors have a legal obligation to pay all debts of the corporation if the company cannot.
C) directors may be sued for breach of fiduciary duty.
D) directors have a personal responsibility to the shareholders.
Q4) Business, by virtue of its place in society, has an inherent right to exist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The micro level of legitimacy refers to achieving and maintaining legitimacy by conforming to societal expectations for
A) the business system as a whole.
B) public policy partnerships.
C) non-government organizations.
D) individual businesses.
Q6) What are the two main issues associated with CEO pay?
Q7) Why is the generous nature of CEO retirement packages particularly frustrating to the public?
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Chapter 5: Strategic Management and Corporate Public Affairs
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Q1) All of the following represent examples of enterprise-level thinking except A) how a firm responds to a public crisis.
B) the extent to which a firm attempts to identify social issues, analyze them, and integrate them into its strategic management process.
C) the extent to which a firm has established board or senior management committees to grapple with social issues.
D) the extent to which a firm has studied its functional structure and made changes necessary to make its operations more efficient.
Q2) Some management scholars believe that the successful firms of the future will be those that can meet stakeholders' social expectations and investment advisors' financial expectations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Name the categories of concerns considered by strategic management. Why should these concerns be part of corporate strategy?
Q4) Why would a firm elect to perform a sustainability report, when it is not required? What benefits can accrue from a sustainability report?
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Chapter 6: Risk, Issue, and Crisis Management
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Q1) Using an enterprise-level strategy perspective, evaluate Johnson & Johnson's actions in response to the Tylenol crisis.
Q2) Why is it so important to tell the truth in crisis situations?
Q3) The approach to issues management in which experience with each prior issue influences future issues is the
A) conventional approach.
B) strategic management approach.
C) portfolio approach.
D) changing mix approach.
Q4) Discuss what personal stakes managers might have in issues definition.
Q5) The formulation stage of the issues management process involves designing the firm's response to the issues facing it.
A)True
B)False
Q6) When managers consider issues that affect their firm, they often ignore
A) ethical considerations.
B) financial concerns.
C) personnel matters.
D) personal stakes.
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Chapter 7: Business Ethics Essentials
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Q1) One of the functions of corporate governance is
A) oversight of senior managers.
B) capital budgeting.
C) incorporating ethics into the strategic planning process.
D) monitoring executive bonuses.
Q2) The focus of descriptive ethics is on
A) determining what should be done in a given situation.
B) justifying a moral system of thinking and judging.
C) learning what is occurring in the realm of moral behaviors and practices.
D) learning how to justify one's chosen actions.
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the major approaches to thinking about business ethics?
A) conventional approach
B) rights and duties approach
C) principles approach
D) ethical tests approach
Q4) Descriptive ethics is concerned with studying and describing the morality of a particular group of people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Managerial and Organizational Ethics
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Q1) Each of the following are characteristics of servant leaders except:
A) Persuasion
B) Deception
C) Stewardship
D) Building community
Q2) The motive behind managers' pressure on subordinates to perform is most likely the emphasis on economic success. Assuming this statement is true, relate this fact to Lawrence Kohlberg's observation that most adults operate at Level 2, the conventional level of moral development. What implications do these facts have for ethical behavior in organizations?
Q3) The ethical principle that states, "we should always act so as to produce the greatest ratio of good to evil for everyone" is
A) deontology.
B) virtue ethics.
C) utilitarianism.
D) hedonism.
Q4) Discuss the board of directors' role in the firm's ethical climate.
Q5) Evaluate the principle of utilitarianism.
Q6) Compare and contrast compliance vs. ethics orientation.
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Chapter 9: Business Ethics and Technology
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Q1) Bioethics deals with the ethical issues embedded in A) human and animal cloning.
B) embryonic stem cell research.
C) extraordinary means to prolong life.
D) the use of biotechnology.
Q2) A survey of Fortune 500 nonmanagement employees shows that workers do not want managers telling them how to use computers in an ethical manner.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Consumers typically have little resistance to the government use of biometrics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ways that companies can address issues related to the ethical use of technology include all of the following except A) management guidelines.
B) use of the Information Systems Society's code of ethics.
C) relying on local and federal laws.
D) collaboration between managers and workers.
Q5) Discuss organizational technoethics. How has it effected business?
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Chapter 10: Ethical Issues in the Global Arena
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Q1) Review the major causes of the Nestlé infant formula controversy.
Q2) Arguments in favor of bribery include
A) it's necessary for profit.
B) nobody does it.
C) they are forms of wages.
D) they are not expected.
Q3) The FCPA differentiates between:
A) domestic and international disputes
B) land ownership and building rental
C) bribes and grease payments
D) entry fees and corporate filing fees
Q4) Cultural differences between an MNC's home country and its host country sometimes make it difficult to distinguish between cultural issues and ethical issues.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Grease payments are used to get minor officials to do all the following except
A) what they are supposed to do.
B) what they are supposed to do, but faster.
C) what the FCPA wants them to do.
D) what they are supposed to do, but better.
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Chapter 11: Business, Government, and Regulation
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Q1) Regulating the way business operates is only one of several roles the government has in its relationship with business.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a role increasing government's complex relationship with business?
A) government is a major purchaser.
B) government can elevate some businesses while devaluing others.
C) government cannot have buying power
D) government can create new businesses through subsidization.
Q3) After the 1950s, most Congressional legislation that affected business was A) economic in nature.
B) concerned largely with the quality of life.
C) supportive of business.
D) aimed at promoting competition.
Q4) Newer social regulations covers business practices in all industries.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the ability of the public or its government to establish social priorities.
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Chapter 12: Business Influence on Government and Public Policy
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Q1) The process of influencing public officials to promote or secure the passage or defeat of legislation is known as
A) bribery.
B) activism.
C) lobbying.
D) suffrage.
Q2) The Chamber of Commerce has reinvigorated itself partially by representing the interests of individual companies that do not want their names attached to certain lobbying efforts. Certain coalitions also provide companies with this anonymity. Why would a company want to keep its name out of the public eye in lobbying efforts? and what resulting impacts has this had for them?
Q3) The principal instruments through which business uses its financial resources to influence government are
A) umbrella organizations.
B) political action committees.
C) trade associations.
D) lobbyists.
Q4) Why might PACs lose their effectiveness?
Q5) What's the danger of a company not being able to define a public issue.
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Chapter 13: Consumer Stakeholders: Information Issues
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Q1) Use of plot placements involve
A) awards given for extraordinarily poor advertisements.
B) advertising ideas taken from the storylines of books or movies.
C) placement of products part of the storyline of a television show.
D) ideas for new products taken from books.
Q2) The Children's Television Act was passed to
A) prevent violent shows from being broadcast during morning hours.
B) prohibit the airing of commercials about products or characters during a show about those products or characters.
C) regulate the plotlines of children's shows.
D) limit the number of hours children could watch television.
Q3) Words that are inherently vague, without being misleading are referred to as A) weasel words.
B) mildly deceptive.
C) perceptively ambiguous.
D) intentionally ambivalent.
Q4) Charges have been leveled against liquor companies for targeting their ads toward children. One commercial series is the Budweiser frog sequence. Evaluate the accuracy of these charges.
Q5) Describe the main issues related to using psychological appeals in advertising.
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Chapter 14: Consumer Stakeholders: Product and Service Issues
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Q1) Which of the following is not a dimension of quality listed in the textbook?
A) performance
B) durability
C) status
D) aesthetics
Q2) Why are the food and manufacturing industries particularly susceptible to product liability suits?
Q3) Early research conducted in the organization later known as the Food and Drug Administration fed small doses of poison to A) rats.
B) chimpanzees.
C) the "Death Squad."
D) the "Poison Squad."
Q4) The Food and Drug Administration is part of A) Housing and Urban Development.
B) the Health and Human Services Department.
C) the Interstate Commerce Commission.
D) the Federal Trade Commission.
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Q5) What are the main problems in the Johnson & Johnson talc power case?
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Chapter 15: Sustainability and the Natural Environment
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Q1) Anything that is internal or external to an entity is its
A) ecology.
B) ecosystem.
C) environment.
D) habitat.
Q2) Describe the basic problems of producing toxic substances.
Q3) Describe some of the potential effects of water shortages or "water bankruptcy."
Q4) A major cause of the greenhouse effect is
A) the price of gasoline.
B) ozone depletion.
C) deforestation.
D) ultraviolet rays.
Q5) Seventy percent of the world's poor live in rural areas, dependent on biological resources.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Today businesses do not bother with sustainability.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe the major sources of pollution in the area where you live.
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Chapter 16: Business and Community Stakeholders
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Q1) A key step in developing a community action program is knowing the company's community. What is involved in this step?
Q2) Fund-raising efforts by large non-profit organizations like United Way, who in turn donate funds to specific causes, are called
A) federated drives.
B) consolidated campaigns.
C) multi-gift campaigns.
D) umbrella drives.
Q3) Corporate philanthropy involves primarily the giving of financial resources, and managerial time and talent.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the CECP, motivations for giving include all the following except A) charitable.
B) commercial.
C) community investment.
D) competitiveness.
Q5) Evaluate the Minnesota HEALS project, funded by General Mills. Was this an appropriate use of corporate funds?
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Chapter 17: Employee Stakeholders and Workplace Issues
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Q1) Evaluate the differences between the old and new social contracts between employer and employee. Does one seem more fair than the other? If so, why?
Q2) Some employers are requiring that their new hires sign contracts that waive their right to sue the firm and accept mandatory arbitration to settle disputes.
A)True B)False
Q3) The exception that protects employees from being fired because they refuse to commit crimes or take advantage of privileges to which they are entitled by law is A) common law.
B) the employee protection principle.
C) the public policy exception.
D) the fair employment loophole.
Q4) What are the impacts of a global economic recession on employee loyalty?
Q5) Most bad reasons for firing employees are already illegal. A)True B)False
Q6) Explain why the private sector has historically not had to observe individuals' rights.
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Chapter 18: Employee Stakeholders: Privacy, Safety, and Health
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Q1) OSHA's ____ is to oversee the safety and health of American's workers by setting and enforcing standards, etc..
A) service clause
B) standards clause
C) responsibility
D) public clause
Q2) Bans on smoking are starting to spread from workplaces to retail businesses like restaurants and bars. Legislation banning smoking has passed in Massachusetts and California localities. Research the effects of these bans. Report your findings.
Q3) One privacy guideline states that firms should respect and preserve the boundary between work and home.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Workers most likely to experience workplace violence include the following except A) workers who work alone.
B) workers who exchange money with the public.
C) workers who work late at night or very early.
D) workers in low-crime areas.
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Chapter 19: Employment Discrimination and Workplace
Diversity
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Q1) Under Title IX the burden of proof includes all of the followingexcept
A) the accused must confess
B) the school must be aware of sexual harassment
C) harassment must take place in educational setting
D) the school must fail to take steps to stop it
Q2) Some companies are now specifically including white males in their diversity programs. Evaluate the wisdom and propriety of this idea.
Q3) The general rule used to prove discrimination under the disparate impact concept is called the
A) four-fifths rule.
B) essential equality rule.
C) equal results rule.
D) evil intent rule.
Q4) By definition, sexual harassment cannot take place between two parties of the same sex.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Inequality exists entirely because of racism.
A)True
B)False
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