Exam 5: Managing Ethics and Social Responsibility

The assumption that "If it's not illegal, it must be ethical," ignores which of the following?

Studies have generally found __________ relationship between ethical and socially responsible behavior and a firm's financial performance.

The __________ approach holds that ethical decisions are those that best maintain the fundamental rights of the people affected by them.

__________ argues that individuals should be compensated for the cost of their injuries by the party responsible.

Leaders should use an autocratic or a coercive style at the conventional level of moral development.

The "__________" part of the triple bottom line looks at how socially responsible the organization is in terms of fair labor practices, diversity, supplier relationships, treatment of employees, contributions to the community, and so forth.

The __________ holds that moral behavior produces the greatest good for the greatest number

At the preconventional level of personal moral development, individuals are concerned with external rewards and punishments and obey authority to avoid detrimental personal consequences.

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 __________ approach.

Many managers still look at whistle-blowers as disgruntled employees who aren't good team players.

Which of the following is not one of the primary mechanisms that managers can implement to help employees and the company stay on an ethical footing?

Important stakeholders in corporations include the government and the community.

Monitoring the Internet to maintain the company's ethical climate and workplace productivity could be considered part of an individualistic approach.

Roger Duke Roger Duke is the manager of the Accounting division at GTC Industries. The group of employees that he oversees has many issues. Morale is low, and there is a lot of infighting within the group. They easily get sidetracked with their work, and Roger must constantly direct and oversee them to make sure they stay on task. Roger has also caught a few of them instant messaging friends on their computers while they should be working. A couple of them have also been caught stealing supplies, and three of his employees have failed drug tests in the past month. Because of this, top management wants Roger to monitor his employees' Internet use, keep an inventory of supplies on a regular basis, and give random drug tests every week.? -All of the following are things that Roger can do to promote a culture in which everyone behaves in an ethical and socially responsible way except:

At the __________ level of personal moral development, people learn to conform to the expectations of good behavior as defined by colleagues, family, friends, and society.

Managers carry a tremendous responsibility for setting the ethical climate in an organization and can act as role models for ethical behavior.

__________ requires that rules should be clearly stated and consistently and impartially enforced.

An increasing number of corporations are implementing "green" or environmentally friendly practices, such as sustainable development. Choose some type of business, then write a short essay in which you explain how the concept of sustainability could be used in that business, how success is measured in the organization, and what you perceive to be the value of sustainable development.

__________ is/are a group of executives (and sometimes lower-level employees as well) charged with overseeing company ethics by ruling on questionable issues and disciplining violators.

The conventional stage of moral development is best described by which of the following statements/questions?