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Professional Ethics explores the fundamental principles and standards that guide ethical decision-making and conduct within various professions. The course examines moral theories, codes of conduct, and the responsibilities of professionals toward clients, society, and their respective fields. Through case studies and real-world scenarios, students analyze ethical dilemmas, learn to identify potential conflicts of interest, and develop the skills to resolve complex issues with integrity. Emphasis is placed on fostering ethical awareness, accountability, and the importance of maintaining trust and credibility in professional practice.
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Moral Issues in Business 12th Edition by William H. Shaw
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Morality
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Q1) Most people don't distinguish between a person's "morals" and his or her "ethics."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A proper perspective of religion and morality is
A)only religion can tell us what is right and wrong
B)it's not true that morality must be based on religion
C)religion never influences people's moral beliefs
D)without religion,people wouldn't have a reason to act morally
Answer: B
Q3) Rules of etiquette are always moral rules.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Organizational norms always and inevitably lead to groupthink.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Normative Theories of Ethics
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Q1) The only accurate statement about consequentalism is:
A)Utilitarianism is a nonconsequentialist ethical theory.
B)Utilitarianism is an egoistic normative theory.
C)Consequentialism says that the moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its results.
D)Nonconsequentialists deny that consequences have any moral significance.
Answer: C
Q2) According to Adam Smith,if business is left to pursue its self-interest,the good of society will be compromised and harmed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Imagine a shopkeeper who is honest because being honest is good for business.When the shopkeeper refrains from cheating a customer,Kant would say this action
A)was wrong because its motive was impure.
B)was in accordance with duty,but not done from duty.
C)displayed a high level of moral worth.
D)shows that he was following the categorical imperative.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Justice and Economic Distribution
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Q1) Libertarianism involves a commitment to leaving market relationsbuying,selling,and other exchanges - totally unrestricted.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) According to the "maximin" rule,you should select the alternative under which the worst that could happen to you is better than the worst that could happen to you under any other alternative.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Supreme Court gave decision making power for Eminent domain to the A)feds.
B)states and local communities
C)townships.
D)parents. Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Nature of Capitalism
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Q1) Which statement accurately describes capitalism?
A)Industrial capitalism is characterized by pools,trusts,holding companies and an interpenetration of banking,insurance and industrial interests.
B)Mercantile capitalism emerged in the United States in the period directly following the civil war.
C)In state welfare capitalism the government plays an active role in regulating economic activities in an effort to smooth out the boom-and-bust pattern of the business cycle.
D)Financial capitalism developed in the period immediately prior to the Renaissance.
Q2) Implicit in capitalism is the view that human beings aim to maximize their economic self-interest.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Adam Smith,the division of labor decreases economic activity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does it mean to say that American companies are too focused on the short term?
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Chapter 5: Corporations
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Q1) What is a moral issue raised by how drug companies are testing drugs? Apply a normative theory of ethics to this moral issue to explain why some people would think the drug companies are doing something immoral.
Q2) Briefly sketch the evolution of corporations.
Q3) What is the problem of "vanishing individual responsibility?"
Q4) According to Keith Davis,in addition to considering potential profitability,a business must weigh the long-range social costs of its activities as well.A business should act only if the overall benefit to society is positive.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Milton Friedman,business has no social responsibilities other than to maximize profits so long as it follows the rules of the game.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the relevance of the concept of a fiduciary relationship to the debate over corporate social responsibility.
Q7) Describe the ethical challenges that Yahoo faces in the China market.
Q8) Briefly explain Milton Friedman's view of social responsibility.
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Chapter 6: Consumers
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Q1) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was established in 1914 to protect consumers against deceptive advertising.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Should cigarette sales be legal? Justify your answer and consider possible objections to it.
Q3) In deciding whether an ad is deceptive,today the FTC basically follows
A)the reasonable consumer standard.
B)the ignorant/gullible consumer standard.
C)a "modified" ignorant-consumer standard.
D)none of these choices.
Q4) What is subliminal advertising?
Q5) People generally speak of two kinds of warranties.What are these two kinds of warranties?
A)express and implied
B)positive and negative
C)limited and unlimited
D)legal and moral
Q6) Defend the position that advertising manipulates human needs and can create artificial ones.
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Chapter 7: The Environment
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Q1) In consideration for the obligation to others,
A)we have no genuine moral obligations to future generations.
B)future people have a right to be born.
C)the U.S.uses more than its proportional share of the world's resources.
D)environmental protection is always a static trade-off,with a fixed economic price to be paid for the gains we want.
Q2) Some environmental regulations (like forbidding the burning of coal in cities) benefit each and every one of us because the air we all breather is cleaner.If an individual ignores the regulation and burns coal,while others obey the regulation,then he or she
A)violates our right to a livable environment.
B)is being a free rider.
C)displays an ignorance of ecology.
D)creates an externality.
Q3) The moral theorist William T.Blackstone claims that the right to a livable environment
A)would solve the problem of how to conserve resources.
B)prevents the use of government regulation to control the actions of business.
C)is a fundamental human right.
D)implies that non-human animals have no genuine moral rights.
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Chapter 8: The Workplace 1: Basic Issues
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Q1) Choose the factual statement concerning wages:
A)An employer's financial capabilities are irrelevant to the question of fair wages.
B)A fair wage is whatever an employee is willing to accept.
C)Extrinsic,non-job-related considerations are often relevant to setting fair wages.
D)A fair wage presupposes a fair work contract.
Q2) What is the difference between a "job description" and a "job specification"?
Q3) The express purpose of a boycott is the same as a strike -- to hurt the employer and strengthen the union's bargaining position.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Shaw and Barry,a workplace environment in which employees are treated fairly and their inherent dignity respected is compatible with a firm's business goals.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How is "just cause" and "due process" relevant to business ethics? Justify your answer.
Q6) How are unions relevant to business ethics? Justify your answer.
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Chapter 9: The Workplace 2: Todays Challenges
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Q1) Explain how the findings of the Hawthorne experiment should be applied to the workplace.
Q2) Different management theories rest on different theories of human nature.Explain one of the theories and how it could effect management.
Q3) Businesses often claim polygraphs are a fast and economical way to verify the information provided by a job applicant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most accurate statement about workplace safety is:
A)workers are often unaware of the hazards they face on the job
B)employees,not their employers,are responsible for creating a safe workplace
C)in an average year,150 workers are killed on the job
D)according to experts,industrial accidents "just happen"
Q5) One problem that OSHA will have to address in the future is the increasing number of musculoskeletal disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Is drug testing ever needed for a workplace? Justify your answer.
Q7) What moral considerations indicate that companies should provide childcare?
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Chapter 10: Moral Choices Facing Employees
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Q1) Name an argument that's given against legalizing insider trading?
Q2) Name an argument given against foreign forms of bribery.
Q3) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
A)makes it easier to fire whistle blowers.
B)reduces the law's protection of employees who disclose securities fraud.
C)makes it illegal for executives to retaliate against employees who report possible violations of federal law.
D)provides penalties for blowing the whistle illegitimately or maliciously.
Q4) The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) outlaws grease payments. A)True
B)False
Q5) What is a key lesson to be learned from the example of the cashier at a truck stop who is asked by her manager to provide the truckers with phony chits so they can get a larger reimbursement from their companies?
Q6) How do we know when whistle-blowing is morally right or wrong? Justify your answer.
Q7) How do trade secrets differ from information that is patented or copyrighted?
Q8) What is insider trading?
Q9) When does a conflict of interest arise?
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Chapter 11: Job Discrimination
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Q1) The 1995 case Adarand Constructors v.Pena shows that,after years of disagreement,the Supreme Court is now unanimous on the issue of affirmative action.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Job discrimination involves prejudice,inaccurate stereotypes,or the assumption that a certain group is inferior and deserves unequal treatment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain the importance of the 1978 case,Bakke v.Regents of the University of California.
Q4) Job discrimination can be individual or intentional.What are two other forms that job discrimination can take?
Q5) Kantians would repudiate sexual or racial job discrimination as disrespectful to our humanity.
A)True B)False
Q6) Job discrimination occurs if three conditions are met.What are they?
Q7) What evidence do we have that sexual harassment is harmful to people?
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