Exam 8: Ethics and Social Responsibility of Business

The moral theory of ethical fundamentalism can best be characterized by:

Utilitarianism can best be characterized by:

Big Green Company is considering introducing a new product to replace an existing product.The new product would result in increased revenues,but slightly lower overall profits because the product will cause injury to a few users and Big Green will compensate persons who are injured.The introduction of this product would be the proper decision under:

Choose any social issue that you feel strongly about and state your position discussing the ethical approach you follow to arrive at your position.How might another person looking at the same issue come to a similar or dissimilar position through a different ethical approach?

Duty ethics is also known as Kantian ethics.

Which of the following is not one of the five major theories of ethics?

Utilitarianism requires taking the course of action that provides at least some good to the greatest number of people.

According to ________,if an action would increase the good of twenty-five people by one unit each and an alternative action would increase the good of one person by twenty-six units,the latter action should be taken

The legislative and judicial branches of government have established laws that enforce the moral minimum of social responsibility on corporations.

The following are characteristic of Rawls's social justice theory except:

Ethical relativism holds that individuals must decide what is ethical based on their own feelings about what is right and wrong.

Under ethical ________,a person looks to a(n)________ source for ethical rules or commands.

Adhering to the Bible is a form of ethical fundamentalism.

Under Rawl's social justice theory,the principle of equal opportunity in employment would be promulgated by ________.

A major criticism of corporate citizenship theory is that the duty of a corporation to do good cannot be expanded beyond certain limits.

A criticism of Kantian ethics is that it is easy to reach consensus as to what the universal rules should be.

Adhering to a company's code of ethics is a form of ethical fundamentalism.

Ethical relativism has been criticized because action that is usually thought to be unethical would not be unethical if the perpetrator thought it was in fact ethical.

Prior to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,companies with established codes of ethics often did not include senior financial officers under the code.

Someone who believes that moral decisions should be made such that the greatest amount of good in total results from his or her actions believes in which moral theory?