Organizational Ethics
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Course Introduction
Organizational Ethics explores the principles and frameworks that guide ethical decision-making within business and organizational settings. This course examines the roles, responsibilities, and challenges that individuals and organizations face in fostering ethical cultures, addressing ethical dilemmas, and maintaining social responsibility. Students will analyze real-world cases, ethical theories, codes of conduct, and contemporary issues such as corporate governance, diversity, and sustainability. The goal is to provide students with practical tools for identifying ethical issues, evaluating alternatives, and implementing ethical solutions in complex organizational environments.
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Business Ethics Now 3rd Edition by Andrew Ghillyer
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Chapter 1: Understanding Ethics
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Q1) The first stage of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of ethical reasoning is preconventional.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) _________________________ is a concept of living your life according to a commitment to the achievement of a clear ideal.
Answer: Virtue ethics
Q3) Kohlberg's framework offers us a clearer view into the process of _______.
A)resolving ethical dilemmas
B)ethical reasoning
C)ethical relativism
D)applied ethics
Answer: B
Q4) All of the following are sources of individuals' moral standards except:
A)Family
B)Religion
C)Government
D)Friends Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Defining Business Ethics
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Q1) _______ was/were a major ethical dilemma in the 1980s.
A)Drug use escalation
B)A changing work ethic
C)Bribes and illegal contracting practices
D)International corruption
Answer: C
Q2) Corporate ____________________ is the system that directs and controls business corporations.
Answer: governance
Q3) If you utilize the rules-based resolution principle,you would consider which decision would provide the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) An ethical dilemma is a situation in which there is a "right" versus "right" answer.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Organizational Ethics
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Q1) Human Resource Managers carry the responsibility for the future growth of the organization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) When a company's financial statements have been certified by an objective third party to be "clean," that certification is meant to be for the company's benefit.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The culture represents the sum of all the policies and procedures from each of the functional departments in the organization,in addition to the policies and procedures that are established for the organization as a whole.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A set of __________________________________________ governs the accounting profession.
Answer: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
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Chapter 4: Corporate Social Responsibility
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Q1) Discuss the major trend: knowledge.
Q2) By recognizing ___________________ rather than ___________________,corporations must maintain a long-term perspective rather than simply delivering quarterly earnings numbers.
Q3) Strategic CSR targets programs that will generate the most positive publicity or goodwill for the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ is one of the newest and increasingly questionable practices in the world of CSR.
A)Risk management and emergency preparedness
B)Water conservation
C)Greenhouse gas conscience
D)"Carbon neutral" operations
Q5) Economic CSR is the purest or most legitimate type of CSR.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the major trend: transparency.
Q7) Discuss the difference between ethical,altruistic,and strategic types of CSR.
Q8) Discuss the practices of making a company's operations "carbon neutral."
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Chapter 5: Corporate Governance
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Q1) When questioned,the boards of the corporations that faced charges for corporate misconduct in recent years all shared similar stories of being "ambushed" or kept in the dark about the massive frauds the senior executives of their corporations allegedly carried out.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Cadbury report argued for a guideline of "comply or ____________."
Q3) Explain the term corporate governance.
Q4) Managers only are accountable to their owners.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the fiduciary responsibility of managers within an organization.Explain the benefits of good corporate governance.
Q6) One question in Salmon's 22-question checklist includes: Is there a way for outside directors to alter the meeting agenda set by your CEO?
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain the significance of the "King I" and "King II" reports.
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Q8) _____________________________ was the focus of the Cadbury report.
Chapter 6: The Role of Government
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Q1) _______ requires senior auditors to rotate off an account every five years and junior auditors every seven years.
Q2) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a legislative response to the corporate accounting scandals and covers the financial management of businesses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the factors that can increase a culpability score is an organization's effective program to prevent and detect violations of law.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The SBDC strictly enforces the FCPA.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The second step of calculating a sentence under the FSGO is the determination of the base fine.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Chapter 7: Blowing the Whistle
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Q1) An ___________________ whistleblower is an employee discovering corporate misconduct and chooses to bring it to the attention of law enforcement agencies and/or the media.
Q2) Prior to the year _________,legal protection for whistleblowers existed only in the form of legislation that encouraged behavior by employees who felt compelled to speak out,without offering any safeguards against retaliation aimed at them.
Q3) If an employee brings the misconduct of an organization to the attention of law-enforcement officials,he or she is external whistle-blowing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Whistle-blowing is ethical under all of the following conditions,EXCEPT:
A)when the motivation is financial gain
B)when the employee identifies a serious threat of harm
C)when the company will cause serious and considerable harm to the public
D)when the employee's immediate supervisor does not act,and the internal procedures and chain of command have been exhausted
Q5) A Qui Tam Lawsuit is a lawsuit brought on behalf of the federal government by
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Chapter 8: Ethics and Technology
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Q1) The first wave of technological advance came with the establishment of call centers predominantly in ______.
A)Mexico
B)Europe
C)Japan
D)India
Q2) Which of the following describes an outbound telesales agent?"
A)Employees who phone other company employees at work to explain and offer their company's services.
B)Employees who visit customers at their home with the aim of selling the company's services.
C)Employees who phone customers at home with the aim of selling the company's services.
D)Employees who visit large corporations with the goal of selling the company's services.
Q3) If jobs are plentiful and the employee would have no difficulty finding another position,then the consent given to the monitoring policy is
Q4) Differentiate between the intranet and the extranet.
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Chapter 9: Ethics and Globalization
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Q1) All of the following are arguments used to promote the downside of globalization,EXCEPT:
A)developing countries are ravaged for their raw materials.
B)globalization brings unprecedented improvements in wealth and standards of living.
C)workers are exploited.
D)corporations are free to take full advantage of less-restrictive legal environments.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a guideline offered by Richard DeGeorge?
A)Seek an economic profit without breaking local laws
B)Respect the human rights of your employees
C)Produce more good than harm for the host country
D)Do no intentional harm
Q3) In _____ the UN Global Compact became operational.
A)1953
B)1990
C)1999
D)2003
Q4) Critics argue that the moral temptations of global expansion have been too
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Chapter 10: Making It Stick - Doing Whats Right in a Competitive Market
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Q1) Winning the trust and confidence of all your stakeholders is a great achievement in today's business world,and once you have their trust,keeping it over the long term is not such a hard thing to accomplish.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With standards of behavior specified in the code of ethics,the threats of punishment must be balanced with promised rewards for successful behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A company's commitment to ethical behavior impacts ______ of management and _____.
A)only the lower level; those departments that deal directly with customers
B)the middle level; those departments that deal directly with customers
C)every level; every department of the organization.
D)every level; departments that deal directly with customers
Q4) Impatient stockholders are a common characteristic of the market.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the difference between reactive and proactive ethical policies.
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