Exam 6: Ethics Training

Because individuals are more likely to discuss work-related ethical issues with family and friends than with coworkers or executives,realistically,ethics training is unlikely to be effective.

Ethical organizations,which have high levels of trust,consistently _______________.

It is typically inappropriate to include ethics and personality measures in ethics training,because these are personal issues.

An effective way of presenting ethics training to employees is to frame it as a method of ___________.

A useful step in ethics training involving exploring ethical scenarios is to encourage discussion of minority viewpoints.

________________ is a systematic collection,review and use of information to determine workshop effectiveness.

A necessary characteristic of effective organizations is ____________ within the culture.

Applying the ________________ can be a useful component of ethics training and allow participants to explore specific steps of decision making.

Discuss the eleven personality measures/surveys associated with ethics that can be useful tools for ethics training.

_____________ is a particular type of theft and fraud whereby an employee steals money from his/her employer.

Research indicates that the _____________ of ethics training is associated with positive impacts on employee attitudes and behaviors.

Ethics training should be introduced to employees during which of the following stages of employment?

To ensure organizational harmony and team-building,divergent thinking and creative problem solving should be discouraged during ethics training,in favor of a single approach to decision-making.

It is most important to provide ethical training to lower-level employees,because most ethical challenges occur at that level of the organization.

How would you assess the success of an ethics training workshop?

Ethics training known as _______________ can be useful in assessing the extent to which ethics permeates organizational operations,including how well the organization is living up to its codes.

Accounting fraud by public companies is particularly troubling for what reason(s)?

It is always best to utilize an ethics workshop facilitator who is not a member of the organization,but rather an expert from outside.

Ethics training,if well done,holds both managers and nonmanagement employees accountable for their ethical behaviors,and provides an opportunity for misunderstandings to be addressed.

It is possible to assess the "ethical culture" of an organization through use of survey instruments.