Exam 6: Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights

EAW is the default position on which courts will rely until and unless an exception can be demonstrated. The burden of proof lies with the dismissed employee to show that she or he was unjustly or illegally fired. Due process and ____, whether instituted as part of internal corporate policy or through legislation, would reverse this burden of proof and require employers to show cause to justify the dismissal of an employee.

Identify the distinguishing feature between cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness.

Identify the approach that allows the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to make tradeoffs between health and economics.

The issue of workplace bullying is more predominant in the service sector because:

The 'Tripartite' part of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy refers to critical cooperation necessary from all of the following except:

The "feasibility" approach to standards allows OSHA to make tradeoffs between health and economics.

When the employer is the government, constitutional limitations on government authority are extended into the workplace to protect employees.

"Sweatshops" lack even the most basic health and safety protections.

A claim which states that people who 'pay' for wrongs are unfairly burdened and should not bear the responsibility for the acts of others, is opposing ____.

Summarize the influences of diversity within a workplace.

Some employers emphasize the rights and duties of all employees, and treat employees well simply because "it is the right thing to do." Identify the ethical approach for this perspective.

Identify the correct statement about "bullying."

For employee health and safety in the workplace, " _____ " is determined by comparing the probabilities of harm involved in various activities.

Employment security is the most significant aspect of work from the employee's ethical perspective.

With regard to health and safety at workplace, _____ can be determined by comparing the probabilities of harm involved in various activities.

According to the universal principle of Kantian philosophy, the ethical obligation of _____ should guide employment interactions.

Identify the correct statement about government standards in the government-regulated ethics approach to health and safety.

Which of the following is discrimination against those traditionally considered to be in power or the majority?

Enlightened self-interest would be a valuable theory to introduce and apply in the _____ approach to health and safety.

It is discriminatory to refuse to hire someone about whom you simply have a "bad feeling," even if that bad feeling is not based on their difference in race or gender.