Exam 4: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

The federal minimum wage is set by the _____.

Organizational leaders must be willing to _____ and take appropriate action.

In blatant disregard of their rights,Johns Manville made a deliberate,cold?blooded decision to do nothing to protect workers whose health was at risk.

The only way employees at Wells Fargo were able to keep their jobs was to meet a quota set by the company.To meet this quota they were required to set up a certain number of new banking and credit card accounts.Which of the following statements is false:

Ethics refers to _____.

The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act protects whistle-blowers under federal law.

According to J.C.Penney's "Statement of Business Ethics," all of the following are acceptable except:

_____ percent of Americans surveyed think that breach of investor and employee trust represents an ongoing and long-standing pattern of deceptive behavior by U.S.corporate officials.

Determining what's "right" or "wrong" is made a little easier by the principle that what's "right" for one group of stakeholders is probably "right" for another.

An organization's culture is strongly influenced by its _____,who inform members what's considered acceptable behavior and what happens if it's violated.

Clayton Moore must choose between taking actions that promote personal interests and the interests of others at work? The ethical issue that he's facing is best characterized as a matter of _____.

Thinking that "My behavior isn't really illegal or immoral" is one of the four common rationalizations for justifying misconduct.

In the compliant stage of corporate social responsibility,a company admits that,because the problem won't go away,it must take responsibility and action for practical long-term solutions.

Investigators determined that the 1982 tampering with Tylenol bottles occurred in the factory in which the capsules were manufactured.

Laws governing equal opportunity require that people must be hired on the basis of _____,not _____.

When McDonald's was first criticized for serving unhealthy food that contributed to a national epidemic of obesity,what was its response?

Because New Horizons' image and reputation are at stake,all employees should realize that it's the major activities and interactions,and not the trivial,day-to-day gestures that build character among an organization's members.

When a business executive accepts a pair of sports tickets from a supplier,he is succumbing to conflict of interest.

Which of the following is not among the four consumer rights identified by President John F.Kennedy in 1962?

Factory emissions,including sulfur and other gases,mix with air and rain to produce air pollution in the form of _____.