CSUEB, Bus. and Professional Ethics
MGMT 3560, Summer 2016
Instructor: Tod Zuckerman
Date: Friday 15 July, 2016
Due Date: NLT start of class on Thursday, 21 July
Name________________________
HW#3 ( Team Assignment) – Please Use Scantron Card
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1. Identify the costs for businesses associated with unethical behaviors.
a. Legal costs
b. Theft costs
c. Recruitment and turnover cost
d. Monitoring costs
e. All of the above
2. Who theorized that individuals are born with a soul- consisting of mind, emotions, and
desires- that forms an individual’s inner essence?
a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Warren Buffet
d. Mark Zuckerberg
e. (a) and (b)
3. The famous “Heinz Dilemma” concerned:
a. Whether – during the height of the Great Recession (October 2008) – the company
that produces Heinz Ketchup should have laid off 2500 of its most senior employees.
b. The stages of cognitive development.
c. The stage of moral development.
d. The moral dimensions of human nature at birth.
e. (a) and (d)
4. Please identify a reason employees often do not speak up when they observe unethical
conduct.
a. Fear others will view them as a “rat,” “fink,” “ratfink,” “troublemaker,” “sh_
_disturber,” etc.
b. Fear of damaging his/her relationship with the person committing the unethical act.
c. Fear of retaliation from the individual committing the unethical act.
d. The belief that management – even if informed about the ethical transgression –
would not respond adequately, and, thus, nobody would gain anything by him/her
speaking up.
e. All of the above.
5. The term stakeholder is synonymous with shareholder:
a. True
b. False
6. The individual who formulated the Heinz Dilemma:
a. Jean Piaget
b. Lawrence Kohlberg
c. Teresa Heinz
d. Joseph Heinz
e. Andrew Carnegie
7. A mission statement declares what an organization aspires to become.
a. True
b. False
8. A vision statement explains why an organization exists.
a. True
b. False
9. A Code of Conduct is a bit like the Ten Commandments, as it can be printed on the back
of a business card.
a. True
b. False
10. The SEC _________ that public companies have Codes of Ethics.:
a. Recommends
b. Requires
c. Neither recommends nor requires
d. None of the above
11. Which is a false statement?
a. Both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ require member companies to
have codes of conduct.
b. In many situations, a company will not be able to obtain a federal government
contract (for goods or services) unless it has a code of conduct.
c. Both A and b are false.
12.
Regarding ethical decision making, Microsoft’s Code of Conduct is patterned after Prof.
Collins’s "Ethics Decision-Making Framework."
a. True.
b. False
13. Concerning the five major ethical theories, the most demanding (and highest level) is
Utilitarianism.
a. True
b. False
14. Regarding Social Group Relativism and Cultural Relativism, which is viewed as a higher
level on the moral ladder?
a. Social Group Relativism
b. Cultural Relativism
15. A Code of Ethics provides substance to a Code of Conduct.
a. True
b. False
16. Typically, a Code of Conduct requires the input of attorneys.
a. True
b. False
17. Your instructor believes (as does Prof. Collins) that, when preparing a Code of Ethics, it
is best first to brainstorm within the organization – without reviewing Codes of Ethics
from other companies/agencies/associations. This is because adopting ethical principles
from other organizations would be plagiarism and this would be unethical.
a. True
b. False
18. Adam Smith believed in which of the following:
a. Freedom and liberty are essential values.
b. The vast majority of free people naturally are selfish.
c. A large majority of free people will elect to enter product and labor markets
where there are the greatest needs and opportunities.
d. All of the above
e. A and c.
19. According to Collins, most managers are social group relativists or cultural relativists.
a. True.
b. False
20. Cultural relativists are mainly concerned with making a decision that will do the greatest
good for the greatest number of people.
a. True
b. False
21. It is illegal to ask an ex-employer: “would you hire this person again?”
a. True
b. False
22. The FBI is disallowed (by law) from conducting background checks for private
businesses.
a. True
b. False
23. Prof. Collins discusses how each decision and action is subject to ethical analysis. An
“action sequence” is comprised of how many parts ?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
24. There is a federal statute which regulates the use of polygraph tests in hiring.
a. True
b. False
25. Which of the statements below can be an "ethical hazard approaching" sign?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
If it is legal, it is ethical.
If it is essential, it is ethical.
If it is for a good reason, it is ethical.
All of the above.
B and c.
26. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act outlaws so-called
"facilitating payments."
a. True
b. False
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
27. Which company below paid the most in penalties and fines
after being convicted of FCPA violations?
Siemens
Microsoft
Walmart
Nike
Facebook
28. Enactment of the FCPA was not controversial. In fact, its
passage was nearly unanimous as all but just a few
members of Congress realized just how dangerous paying
bribes to foreign officials was to our long-term national
security.
a. True
b. False
29. Corporations can be fined and otherwise penalized under
the FCPA. However, as a corporation is an artificial legal
entity, courts never impose prison time as part of a sentence
for any FCPA defendant .
a. True
b. False
30. TileVII of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits
employers from discriminating against an employee or job
applicant because of that person’s race, color, sex, national;
origin or religion,. However, only employers with 15 or
more employees are covered fall within the purview of Tile
VII.Therefore, employers with fewer than 15 employees
can discriminate against persons based on race, religion,
sex, national origin, and color with impunity. That is, such
employers are "off the hook" for discriminatory conduct.
a. True
b. False
31. The Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act
prohibits all employers from discriminating against
employees and job applicants aged 30 and older on the
basis of their age.
a. True
b. False
32. Discrimination is always unethical and almost always
illegal.
a.True
b.False
33. Several states have anti-discrimination/equal employment
laws that ban employment discrimination against the same
protected classes included in Tile VII of the Federal Civil
Rights Act plus bar employment discrimination based on
other characteristics, including but not limited to disability,
sexual orientation, and sexual identity.
a True
b. False
34. The Code of Conduct for United States Judges ( federal
court judges) includes a general statement that judges
should "avoid impropriety and the appearance of
impropriety," Additionally, it contains an explicit directive
that a judge must not "make speeches for a political
organization or candidate, or publicly endorse or oppose a
candidate for public office."
Which U.S. Supreme Court Justice apologized this week
for violating this ethical rule?
a. Justice Breyer
b.
c.
d.
e.
Chief Justice Roberts
Justice Thomas
Justice Ginsburg
None of the above
35. What well known sports figure ( current athlete, retired
athlete, college administrator, or professional sports club
executive) recently made news when it was reported that he
, his daughter, and sister-in-law made $2.4 million from just
working a part-time ( very, very part-time) job for a
charitable foundation that exists to provide financial aid to
needy students.
a. Willie Mays
b. Jack Nicklaus
c. Arnold Palmer
d. Pat Haden
e. Michael Jordan
36. A leading California university administrator is facing
considerable criticism ( including calls for his/her
resignation/firing) for:
a. Accepting a $70,000./year board of directors position
with DeVry University ( which is a defendant in several
lawsuits for various allegedly unethical practices).
b. For making more than $400, 000.(from 2012-2014) as a
member of the John Wiley&Sons Board of Directors
(this company publishes textbooks and other college
materials).
c. Both a and b.
d. None of the above.
37. According to psychologists , people with mored education
tend to be better ethical decision makers.
a. True
b. False
38. One of the six ethical theories, deontology, emphasizes the
results of an action on all those impacted by it. Thus, when
faced with an ethical decision, a deontologist asks: " How
does the action relate to everyone who is affected by it?If it
is beneficial to the majority, then it is right. If it is
detrimental to the majority, then it is wrong."
a. True
b. False
39. In class, Zuckerman said that – looking back at his legal
career – he was a:
a. Virtue ethicist
b. Deontologist
c. Cultural relativist
d. Social group relativist
e. Utilitarian
40. Generally ( not always), ethical beliefs generate ethical
intentions and result in ethical actions/behaviors. Also,
according to the research of psychologists James Weber
and Janet Gillespie ( involving almost 400 students enrolled
in an Executive MBA program), there is typically only a
very insignificant drop off going from one step to the next.
a. True
b. False
