Leadership and Ethics
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the fundamental principles of leadership and ethical decision-making in organizational settings. Students will examine various leadership theories and styles, analyze the ethical challenges leaders face, and develop skills to foster integrity and social responsibility within teams and institutions. Through case studies, discussions, and practical exercises, participants will learn to balance organizational goals with ethical considerations, understand the impact of personal values on leadership practices, and cultivate ethical cultures within diverse environments.
Recommended Textbook
Business Ethics Decision Making for Personal Integrity and 3rd Edition by Laura P. Hartman
Available Study Resources on Quizplus
10 Chapters
800 Verified Questions
800 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/study-set/2749 Page 2
Chapter 1: Ethics and Business
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54837
Sample Questions
Q1) Explain how the study of ethics was viewed until recently,and what kind of shift in focus has occurred post the scandals.
Answer: As recently as the mid-1990s,articles in such major publications as The Wall Street Journal,the Harvard Business Review,and U.S.News and World Report questioned the legitimacy and value of teaching classes in business ethics.Few disciplines face the type of skepticism that commonly confronted courses in business ethics.Many students believed that "business ethics" was an oxymoron.Many also viewed ethics as a mixture of sentimentality and personal opinion that would interfere with the efficient functioning of business.
Leaders realize that they can no longer afford this approach in contemporary business.The questions today are less about why or should ethics be a part of business,than they are about which values and principles should guide business decisions and how ethics should be integrated within business.Students unfamiliar with the basic concepts and categories of ethics will find themselves as unprepared for careers in business as students who are unfamiliar with accounting and finance.Indeed,it is fair to say that students will not be fully prepared,even within fields such as accounting,finance,human resource management,marketing,and management unless they are familiar with the ethical issues that arise within those specific fields.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 3
Chapter 2: Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54836
Sample Questions
Q1) Elaborate on the concept of perceptual differences in ethics.
Answer: Perceptual differences in how individuals experience and understand situations can explain many ethical disagreements.Knowing the facts and carefully reviewing the circumstances can go a long way towards resolving disagreements at an early stage.
Q2) Which of the following terms refers to shortsightedness about values?
A) Inattentional blindness
B) Normative myopia
C) Change blindness
D) Descriptive ignorance
Answer: B
Q3) Selecting the alternative that meets minimum decision criteria is known as ____. Answer: satisficing
Explanation: We often select the alternative that satisfies minimum decision criteria, otherwise known as "satisficing."
Q4) What is moral imagination? How is it important?
Answer: Creativity in identifying options-also called "moral imagination"-is one element that distinguishes good people who make ethically responsible decisions from good people who do not.
Page 4
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 3: Philosophical Ethics and Business
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54835
Sample Questions
Q1) Explain Immanuel Kant's view on the ethical principles of human rights.
Answer: German philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that there is essentially one fundamental ethical principle: to respect the dignity of each individual human being.One way to do so requires us to treat all persons as ends in themselves and never only as means to our own ends.In other words,our fundamental duty is to treat people as subjects capable of living their own lives and not as mere objects that exist for our purposes.
Q2) Virtue ethics emphasizes the more affective side of our character.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Utilitarianism has been called a(n):
A) commonsensical approach to ethics.
B) behavioral approach to ethics.
C) consequentialist approach to ethics.
D) intuitive approach to ethics.
Answer: C
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 5
Chapter 4: The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54834
Sample Questions
Q1) As compared to a traditional compliance-oriented program,an evolved and inclusive ethics program:
A) focuses on meeting regulatory requirements.
B) entails helping to unify a firm's global operations.
C) strives to minimize risks of litigation and indictment.
D) works mainly toward improving accountability mechanisms.
Q2) Which of the following is true about culture?
A) The specific culture within an organization can be defined easily and objectively.
B) The incentives an organization employs do not help in determining the organization's specific culture.
C) Attitude and behavior are the biggest fraction of the elements that determine culture.
D) Perception may actually impact the culture in a circular way.
Q3) Which traits should a leader possess so that he or she can be perceived as being ethical?
Q4) A _____ culture will empower legal and audits offices to mandate and to monitor compliance with the law and with internal codes.
Q5) Explain the reasoning behind the popularity of the values-based culture.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 6
Chapter 5: Corporate Social Responsibility
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54833
Sample Questions
Q1) Stakeholder theory recognizes the fact that every business decision affects a wide variety of people,benefiting some and imposing costs on others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are some of the precautions that a firm must take when investing in CSR?
Q3) Milton Friedman claims that a corporate executive has a "responsibility to conduct business in accordance with his or her employer's desires,which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society,both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom." This view of corporate social responsibility has its roots in the _____ tradition.
A) deontological
B) Kantian
C) utilitarian
D) virtue
Q4) Discuss the philanthropic model of CSR.
Q5) The philanthropic model in which business support for a social cause is done simply because it is the right thing to do differs from the reputational version of the philanthropic model only in terms of the underlying ____.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 7
Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making: Employer
Responsibilities and Employee Rights
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54832
Sample Questions
Q1) The _____ value of the life is something that financial compensation cannot replace.
A) absolute
B) instrumental
C) intrinsic
D) extrinsic
Q2) "Sweatshops" lack even the most basic health and safety protections.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the universal principle of Kantian philosophy,the ethical obligation of _____ should guide employment interactions.
A) family responsibilities
B) respect for people
C) religion
D) core customs
Q4) In legal contexts,due process is the right to be protected against the arbitrary use of authority.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the various aspects associated with employment at will (EAW).
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 8
Chapter 7: Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the
Workplace
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54831
Sample Questions
Q1) The impact of ECPA is to punish electronic monitoring only by _____ and not by employers.
Q2) One of the problems associated with giving prior notice of monitoring is the "Hawthorne Effect."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Values that are fundamental across culture and theory are called:
A) authentic norms.
B) hypernorms.
C) ethnocentric norms.
D) executive norms.
Q4) The advent of new _____ challenges privacy in ways that people could never before imagine.
Q5) Briefly discuss the circumstances which violate an employee's privacy rights?
Q6) According to Donaldson and Dunfee,the right to _____ is an example of a hypernorm.
A) a safe workplace
B) public information
C) vote
D) physical movement
Page 9
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 10
Chapter 8: Ethics and Marketing
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54830
Sample Questions
Q1) Marketing practices targeted at elderly populations for goods such as supplemental health insurance,funerals etc.are subject to criticism because:
A) that population is vulnerable.
B) interest gained on such investments are not highly profitable.
C) they target the considered and rational desires of the consumers.
D) they do not abide by the principles of welfare economics.
Q2) The implied warranty of merchantability holds that in selling a product,a business implicitly offers assurances that the product is reasonably suitable for its purpose.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When consumers are injured by a product in which no negligence is involved and no one is at fault,the legal doctrine of strict product liability holds manufacturers accountable.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Outline the implication of the social contract tradition within business.
Q5) An adequate ethical analysis of marketing must consider ____,those costs that are not integrated within the exchange of the buyer and the seller.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 11
Chapter 9: Business and Environmental Sustainability
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54829
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following is a problem associated with the regulatory approach to environmental challenges?
A) The regulatory model assumes that economic growth is environmentally and ethically benign.
B) If people rely on the law to protect the environment, environmental protection will extend beyond the law.
C) Business passively responds to consumer desires and consumers are unaffected by the messages that business conveys.
D) National regulations are the only means to effectively address international environmental challenges.
Q2) The regulatory model assumes that economic growth is environmentally and ethically benign.
A)True
B)False
Q3) From a strict market economic perspective,resources are "finite," and have to be used efficiently to gain maximum economic benefits.
A)True
B)False
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
12
Chapter 10: Ethical Decision Making: Corporate
Governance, Accounting, and Finance
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
80 Verified Questions
80 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/54828
Sample Questions
Q1) Board members are permitted to act in a way that is inconsistent with the central goals of the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A ____ exists where a person holds a position of trust that requires that he exercise judgment on behalf of others,but where his personal interests conflict with those of others.
A) duty of care
B) community of interest
C) conflict of interest
D) duty of loyalty
Q3) The _____ Guidelines offer boards some specifics regarding ways to mitigate eventual fines and sentences in carrying out duties by paying attention to ethics and compliance.
Q4) Executive compensation packages based on _____ create huge incentives to artificially inflate stock value.
Q5) What is control environment?
Q6) What is insider trading?
Q7) Discuss how conflicts of interests can arise in a profession.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 13