Professional Ethics
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Professional Ethics explores the fundamental principles and standards that govern ethical behavior within various professions. This course examines concepts such as integrity, accountability, and social responsibility, and addresses common ethical dilemmas faced by professionals in fields including business, law, healthcare, engineering, and education. Through case studies, theoretical frameworks, and practical applications, students will develop the skills to recognize, analyze, and resolve ethical issues, fostering ethical decision-making and responsible conduct in their professional lives.
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Business Ethics Ethical Decision Making and Cases 9th Edition by O. C. Ferrell
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Chapter 1: The Importance of Business Ethics
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the benefits of being ethical and socially responsible in business?
A) Greater employee commitment
B) A high degree of employee dissent
C) Improved customer trust and satisfaction
D) Increased investor loyalty
E) Better financial performance
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is not something a firm might do to encourage organizational ethics and compliance?
A) Employee ethics training
B) Hiring a compliance officer
C) Ignoring potential ethical issues
D) Writing a code of ethics
E) Conducting an ethics and compliance audit.
Answer: C
Q3) We all learn values from sources such as family, religion, and school. Why might these sources of individual values not prove very helpful when making complex business decisions?
Answer: Pages 10-11
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Chapter 2: Stakeholder Relationships, Social Responsibility, and Corporate Governance
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Q1) Board members being linked to more than one company is an example of A) strategic philanthropy.
B) stakeholder commitment.
C) interlocking directorate.
D) conflict of interest.
E) an illegal activity.
Answer: C
Q2) Who argued that when a business also cares about the well-being of stakeholders, it earns trust and cooperation that ultimately reduce costs and increase productivity?
A) Adam Smith
B) Theodore Levitt
C) Norman Bowie
D) Herman Miller
E) Milton Friedman
Answer: C
Q3) Discuss the difference between primary and secondary stakeholders in the stakeholder interaction model and give examples for each type.
Answer: Pages 33-34
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Chapter 3: Emerging Business Ethics Issues
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Q1) Which of the following has been identified by the Ethics Resource Center as the leading form of observed misconduct in organizations?
A) Discrimination
B) Bullying
C) Lying
D) Misuse of company resources
E) Sexual harassment
Answer: D
Q2) The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty committed to
A) lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
B) limiting bribery in international business relations.
C) making medical care available to the poverty stricken.
D) eliminating the exploitation of third-world workers.
E) creating equal employment opportunities for men and women.
Answer: A
Q3) What is a conflict of interest? Provide an example.
Answer: Page 70
Q4) What are the different definitions of bribery?
Answer: Page 70-71
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Chapter 4: The Institutionalization of Business Ethics
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Q1) What ethical issues affecting consumers and society as a whole are created by unfair competition?
Q2) Passed by Congress in 1991, the _____ created incentives for organizations to develop and implement ethical compliance programs.
A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act
B) U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines for Ethical Compliance
C) Ethical Compliance Act
D) Social Responsiveness Compliance Act
E) Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
Q3) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act created the _____ to oversee the accounting firms that audit public corporations and to establish rules and standards for auditing.
A) Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
B) Corporate Accounting Oversight Commission
C) Enron Accounting Fraud Administration
D) Occupational Health and Safety Administration
E) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Q4) Society often expects a lot from business. Do you think that it is possible to balance profit and other business objectives with the goals and desires of society? Why or why not?
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Chapter 5: Ethical Decision Making and Ethical Leadership
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Q1) The ethical decision-making framework includes the concepts of ethical issue intensity, individual factors, organizational factors, and opportunity. Discuss how these concepts influence the ethical decision-making process.
Q2) Which of the following is not an individual factor that affects business ethics?
A) Nationality
B) Age
C) Religion
D) Significant others
E) Education
Q3) Studies have shown that _____ within the organization have more impact on a worker's decisions on a daily basis than any other factor.
A) significant others
B) religion
C) education
D) chief executive officers
E) ethical issues
Q4) Trace the ethical decision-making process. You may find it helpful to apply the model to a real business situation or to a hypothetical ethical issue you develop yourself.
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Chapter 6: Individual Factors: Moral Philosophies and Values
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Q1) Kohlberg's six stages of cognitive moral development can be reduced to three levels of ethical concern. Persons at the second level
A) define right as that which conforms to the expectations of good behavior of the larger society.
B) see beyond the norms, laws, and authority of groups or individuals.
C) are concerned with their immediate interests and with external rewards and punishments.
D) are concerned with their long-term interests and with internal rewards and punishments.
E) are unethical.
Q2) _____ justice considers the processes and activities that produce the outcome or results.
A) Disruptive
B) Procedural
C) Interactional
D) Communications
E) Evaluative
Q3) What is white collar crime and why has it become such a widespread problem?
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Chapter 7: Organizational Factors: the Role of Ethical
Culture and Relationships
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Q1) _____ are satisfied by social and interpersonal relationships, and _____ are satisfied by creative or productive activities.
A) Growth needs; relatedness needs
B) Personal needs; group needs
C) Coercive needs; ethical needs
D) Relatedness needs; growth needs
E) Group needs; personal needs
Q2) Although both structures can create opportunities for unethical conduct, which organizational structure tends to be more ethical?
A) Tall
B) Flat
C) Centralized
D) Decentralized
E) All organizational structures are equally ethical.
Q3) Explain how corporate culture influences the ethical behavior of employees within an organization.
Q4) How do group norms influence the ethical behavior of an organization? What happens when the norms of a particular group conflict with the organization's corporate culture or objectives?
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Chapter 8: Developing an Effective Ethics Program
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Q1) Which of the following is not a main goal of successful ethics programs?
A) Identify key risk areas that employees will face.
B) Align employee conduct with organizational reputation and branding.
C) Provide a hierarchy of leadership for employees to contact when they are faced with an ethical dilemma that they do not know how to resolve.
D) Allow employees to solve ethical issues themselves using their best judgment.
E) Allow a mechanism for employees to voice their concerns that is anonymous, but allows for the provision of feedback to key questions.
Q2) In the long run, a(n) ______ orientation may be better for companies, perhaps because it increases employees' awareness of ethics issues at work.
A) code
B) obedience
C) compliance
D) values
E) individual
Q3) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of implementing an ethics program with a compliance orientation versus one with a values orientation. Is one better than the other at maintaining an ethical organization?
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Chapter 9: Managing and Controlling Ethics Programs
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Q1) At which stage of the ethics auditing process would a hospital conduct focus groups with management, doctors, nurses, related health professionals, support staff, and patients?
A) Collect and analyze relevant information
B) Review organizational mission, goals, values, and policies
C) Identify stakeholders
D) Report the results
E) Verify the results
Q2) Which of the following is a statement that attests that the financial statements made in an audit are fairly stated, without limitations?
A) Adverse opinion
B) Qualified opinion
C) Unqualified opinion
D) Favorable opinion
E) Disclaimer of opinion
Q3) What is the Global Reporting Initiative? What is its goal? Why has it grown in importance?
Q4) Explain the benefits and risks of ethics auditing.
Q5) Describe the process of conducting an ethics audit in detail.
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Chapter 10: Globalization of Ethical Decision Making
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Q1) Those who ascribe to consumerism
A) believe that consumers should purchase everything they can afford.
B) do not believe in taxes on locally made products.
C) believe that consumers should own the means of production.
D) believe that consumers, not producers, should dictate the economic structure of a society.
E) believe that corporations should have the freedom to do whatever they want.
Q2) Who argued during the 1930s that the state could stimulate economic growth and improve stability in the private sector?
A) Adam Smith
B) John Maynard Keynes
C) Milton Friedman
D) Herbert Hoover
E) Geert Hofstede
Q3) How can differences in two countries' cultures create ethical issues in business?
Q4) What are the roles of the IMF and the WTO in encouraging, monitoring, and regulating international trade?
Q5) Discuss the ethical issues associated with multinational corporations.
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