Exam 6: Strategic Planning, Corporate Culture, and Corporate Compliance

Which of the following are factors such as what is seen and heard within a firm?

Lewin's primary embedding mechanisms are concerned with the behavior and leadership traits of the most senior managers in a firm.

In the Deloitte & Touche five step process to embed ethics and values within the culture of a firm, the ________________ is the stage that gaps and ambiguities are removed.

Criminal penalties for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act can be up to $2 million for a firm and $100,000 and 5 years in prison for an individual.

Grand corruption occurs when private individuals give illegal financial incentives to nonelected public officials in exchange for favorable dealings with certain government transactions.

_______________ occurs when private individuals give illegal financial incentives to nonelected public officials in exchange for favorable dealings with certain government transactions.

In general, corruption can be classified into each of the following major types except:

______________ is the process in which future courses of action are developed to achieve the firm's short- and long-term goals.

Peter Drucker developed the _____________,which involves the decision maker's ability to look at his or her reflection after the decision had been made and state that he or she had made the right choice.

In a short essay, list and discuss the three levels on which corporate culture exists simultaneously within a firm.

Factors such as the political and social structure of the country have no impact on the ethical decision-making process.

All of the following are countries that tolerate having their nationals give bribes in other countries and also allow the bribes to be written off as business expenses on the firm's tax statements except

The 2011 National Business Ethics Survey 2011 found 22% of the respondents had observed misconduct in the workplace, and 45% of these were subject to some form of retaliation.

The agreed starting point for decision making within a firm is called ______________.

Schein developed a set of enabling mechanisms to change culture. Which of the following is not a primary embedding mechanism?

Petty corruption occurs when illegal financial incentives are given to higher-ranked public officials.

Alan Graf believes that culture should include all of the following basic components except

The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that forbids firms from contributing to foreign political campaigns was passed into law in

An ethical crisis occurs when an event that was not part of the normal course of action for a firm takes place and affects the firm.

_______________ is defined as the shared values and beliefs of employees within any given organization.