Exam 4: Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility

A decision to monitor employees' nonwork activities violates the right to ________.

The ________approach assets that human beings have fundamental rights and liberties that cannot be taken away by an individual's decision.

When values and standards are written into the legal system, it is referred to as .

A new drug has not been approved by the FDA to sell in the U.S. because further testing is needed. The company has a chance to sell its product in another country immediately to start recovering the costs of R & D and production three years ahead of time. This example places the decision in which of the categories from the text?

Economic responsibility, carried to the extreme, is called the profit-maximizing view.

Approximately 20% of American adults, according to your text, never reach the postconventional level of moral development.

List the four responsibilities of corporate social performance.

________includes behavior that is not always codified into law and may actually not serve an organization's economic interests.

________is considered a decision that enables an individual or company to benefit at society's expense.

Management's obligation to make choices that will contribute to the well being of both the organization and society is known as________ .

Economic responsibility defines what society deems as important with respect to appropriate corporate behavior.

One of the newest positions in organizations is the chief operating officer, a response to widespread financial wrongdoing in recent years.

Robbie's Robots decided to continue operations at one plant while shutting down another. The decision was justified on the basis of what was best for the total corporation. This is an example of the:

The ethical concept that acts are moral when they promote the individual's best long term interests, which ultimately leads to the greater good, is known as the moral rights approach.

Which of the following concepts argues that organizations can find innovative ways to create wealth at the same time they are preserving natural resources?

Most ethical dilemmas in business involve a conflict between stakeholders and shareholders.

Compensatory justice argues that an employees compensation should be based on individual performance.

The ethical concept that moral behaviors produce the greatest good for the greatest number is referred to as________ approach.

When everyone is pursuing self-direction, the greater good is ultimately served because people learn to accommodate each other in their own long-term interest is an example of the________.

Caleb is a manager at Computer-Care Company. He is expected to consider the effort of each decision alternative on all parties and select the one that optimizes the satisfaction for the greatest number of people. This is an example of the: