Exam 4: The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications

What is corporate culture? How does it shape an employee?

The second step in the development of guiding principles for a firm is to:

Values-based cultures are also known as _____ cultures.

If we judge a leader solely by the results produced, we are following the _____ ethical tradition.

A firm must first determine its mission before impacting the culture through a code of conduct.

An ethical environment, or culture, would be one in which employees are expected to act by the rules in spite of unethical conditions.

Which of the following is an essential element in establishing an ethical leadership?

Which of the following is a value that will impact the culture of an organization in the absence of any other established values?

According to the _____ ethics tradition, people act out of habit than out of deliberations.

What is the term used to describe a potentially damaging or ethically challenged corporate culture?

Which of the following directed the USSC to consider and to review its guidelines for fraud relating to securities and accounting, as well as to obstruction of justice, and specifically asked for severe and aggressive deterrents in sentencing recommendations?

How are leaders responsible for supporting ethical decision-making?

Organizations that have a traditional approach to culture can be classified as compliance-based cultures.

A values-based culture recognizes that where rules do not apply, the firm must rely on the personal integrity of its workforce during decision-making.

How does perception affect the culture within an organization?

Describe how a values-based culture works.

USSC prescribed mandatory _____ that apply to individual and organizational defendants in the federal system, bringing some amount of uniformity and fairness to the system.

Corporate culture shapes, and is shaped, by the people who are members of the organization.

Which of the following mechanisms allows employees to report wrongdoing and to create mechanisms for follow-up and enforcement?

Which of the following allows organizations to uncover silent vulnerabilities that could pose challenges later to the firm, serving as a vital element in risk assessment and prevention?