Business Ethics Practice Tests for Ch 1 & 2

CHAPTER ONE - PRACTICE QUIZ

A social problem is

a gap between society's expectations of social conditions and current social realities.

The philosophy of entitlement is the belief that:

a person is owed something simply because he or she is a member of society.

Business power is:

the ability to influence or produce an effect in a given situation.

Decentralization, a system of checks and balances, and diversity are characteristics of:

pluralism.

The purchasing manager at Noxious Nellie's has the authority to buy computer equipment that costs less than $5,000 without any other approval. Which sphere of power does this represent?

Individual

CHAPTER ONE - PRACTICE FINAL EXAM

Decentralization, a system of checks and balances, and diversity are characteristics of:

pluralism

The multiple bottom-line perspective holds that:

there are three key spheres of sustainability -- economic, social, and environmental.

The multifiduciary view of stakeholders:

holds that managers have the same types of duties to stakeholders and owners.

The most basic level of stakeholder management capability, which entails identifying stakeholders groups and their respective stakes, is known as:

the rational level.

In order to understand corporate governance, it is important to understand the idea of:

legitimacy.

The public affairs function that we know today:

is rooted in the social activism of the 1960s and 1970s.

Describe an approache to issues management can be employed by itself, with no connections to other management systems?

Conventional approach

One of the primary ethical issues created by computer technology in the workplace is:

surveillance of employees.

Technology, as defined in the textbook, is:

the totality of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and comfort.

The two underlying challenges of operating in a multinational environment are:

corporate legitimacy and differing...