Exam 4: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, and Critical Thinking

The text specifically discusses that failure to reprimand staff for unethical actions may:

An arguer ________ when she takes for granted or assumes the thing that she is setting out to prove.

Asking whether a decision will produce the right results is an example of deontological theory.

________ is an example of overconfidence where a person believes "we must be doing things the right way because all has gone well in the past."

The stakeholder theory of corporate social responsibility:

A ________ argument states that we should or should not do something merely because one or more other people or firms do or do not do it.

Sometimes ethical conduct requires consideration of the decision maker's self-interest to produce a moral result.

The ________ requires a public company to disclose whether it has adopted a code of ethics for senior financial officers,and to disclose any change in the code or waiver of the code's application.

What three things are seen in the corporate scandals of 2002,such as Enron and WorldCom?

"I don't know why we do it,but we've always done it that way,and it's always worked,so we'll continue to do it that way." This statement is an example of the:

Under the stakeholder theory of corporate social responsibility,employees' interests are considered.

When making an ethical decision,one must look at how alternatives impact society as a whole.Which of the following theories does this guideline closely follow?

________ requires a decision maker to ensure the maximum good for the maximum number.

Which of the following ethical theories is a deontological theory?

Sharon eats dinner at Chain Restaurant and orders its daily special,the lobster bisque soup.Sharon becomes ill and believes she has food poisoning.She argues because Chain Restaurant has lots of money,it should pay for her medical expenses.This is an example of:

The ________ of corporate social responsibility holds that rather than merely striving to maximize profits for its shareholders,a corporation should balance the interests of shareholders against the interests of employees,suppliers,customers,and the community.

In the federal trial against a 9/11 co-conspirator,a federal prosecutor wanted to introduce testimony of the families of the victims.The use of this testimony is an example of:

________ categorizes using or manipulating others as an unethical action.

If alternatives are not explored when making an ethical decision,there is a risk that:

Which of the following critical thinking errors is likely to occur among the subordinates if a leader is unethical?