Exam 3: Managing Ethics and Diversity

Describe the relationships between ethics, law, and business.

Which of the following refers to the invisible barriers that prevent minorities and women from being promoted to top corporate positions?

Define stakeholders. List at least four types of stakeholders.

Managers who are sensitive and responsive to the needs and concerns of workers who may be less fortunate in terms of income and financial resources are showing an awareness of ________.

People in a particular country may automatically behave ethically because they have internalized values and norms that specify how they should behave in certain situations. This is an example of which code of ethics?

The ADA does not cover employees with AIDS from being discriminated against in the workplace.

Family, friends, personality, and experience are sources of ________ ethics.

Because the stakeholders' ability to earn a living and obtain resources in the long run depends on how they behave, they must protect their valuable ________.

When managers are faced with a work environment that they find personally offensive because of their gender, which of the following has occurred?

"A grouping of people based on some shared characteristic such as national origin, language, or culture" refers to ________.

Taking quick action to correct inequalities and curtailing discriminatory behavior would be the duty of a manager in a ________ role.

Dorothy, who runs her own small business, treats all her employees, customers, and suppliers fairly, regardless of their age, gender, or ethnicity. Which of the following roles is Dorothy performing?

Dissimilarities among people due to age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, education, experience, physical appearance, capabilities/disabilities, and any other characteristic that is used to distinguish between people defines ________.

Stockholders are interested in the way that a company operates because they ________.

Which of the following is a likely result of loss of trust?

The people and groups that supply a company with its productive resources, and thus have a claim on and a stake in the company, are known as ________.

Identify and describe the sources of an organization's code of ethics.

The actions of top managers such as CEOs are scrutinized so closely for ethical lapses because ________.

Betty works in a software firm as a programming officer. During her appraisal, Ben, the floor manager, asks sexual favors from Betty in return for her promotion and pay raise. Which form of sexual harassment has occurred?

To help managers and employees make ethical decisions and behave in ways that benefit their stakeholders, they can use four ethical rules or principles to analyze the effects of their business decisions on stakeholders, the ________ rules.