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1. Which choice is not one of the five characteristics that distinguish

moral standards?
They are concerned with laws.

Your
Answer:
Correct.
2. Business ethics investigate all of these basic types of issues

except:
structural issues.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
3. Globalization is a worldwide process by which the economic and

social systems of nations have become connected so that which of
the following does not occur?
None of these are traded.

Your
Answer:
Correct. Goods, services, knowledge, and cultural artifacts are all

traded.
4. Multinational corporations face special ethical dilemmas not faced

by firms limited to a single country, including:
both of the above.

Your
Answer:
Correct.
5. Ethical relativism is the theory that:
different societies have different ethical beliefs and

Your we cannot judge between them.
Answer:
Correct.
6. Which of the following statements is true of the development of

information technology in business?
All of these.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
7. Which statement reflects the "punishment and obedience

orientation" stage (stage one) of moral development?
I don't steal because I don't want to be spanked.

Your
Answer:
Correct.
8. Which is not an essential component of moral reasoning?
A willingness to see the relative value of different

Your ethical standards.
Answer:
Correct.
9. Which of the following conditions completely eliminate a person's

moral responsibility?
ignorance
Your
Answer:
Correct.
10 In which scenario is the subordinate the most guilty?

.
His boss, who does not believe X to be wrong,
Your commands him to do X; the subordinate does X,
Answer: knowing it to be wrong.
Correct.
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1. Moral standards are the standards that we live up to in dealing with

others.
False
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Correct.
2. Moral standards are associated with special emotions and a special

vocabulary.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
3. Ethics is not the only way to study morality.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
4. Descriptive studies of morality attempt to reach conclusions about

moral standards, judging whether they are more or less correct.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
5. The most significant kinds of business organizations are small
privately owned institutions.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
6. Individual issues in business ethics are ethical questions raised

about a particular individual or particular individuals within a
company, and their behaviors and decisions.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
7. All corporate organizations and their acts always depend on human

individuals.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
8. Multinational corporations maintain manufacturing, marketing,

service, or administrative operations in many different host
countries.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
9. New technologies developed in the closing decades of the 20th

century and the opening years of the 21st century are transforming
society and business, but they do not create the potential for new
ethical problems.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
10 The higher stages of Kohlberg's moral development are morally

preferable to the lower stages.
.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
11 Some Nazi officers justified their actions using the loyal agent's
argument.
.
True
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Answer:
Correct.
12 Some laws have nothing to do with morality.

.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
13 Studies have shown that ethical companies are more profitable that
unethical ones.
.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
14 The term moral responsibility is sometimes used to mean “moral

duty” or “moral obligation.”
.
True
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Answer:
Correct.
15 Inability, as a result of either internal or external circumstances,

eliminates all moral responsibility for an action.
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True
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1 According to the principle of utilitarianism, an action is moral if:

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it produces the greatest net benefits or the lowest
Your net costs.
Answer:
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2 According to utilitarianism, to ascertain what to do on any particular

occasion, I must do each of the following except:
.
decide which action is compatible with moral virtue.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
3 Which of the following statements is not true of utilitarianism?

.
Utilitarianism appears counter-intuitive to many
Your people.
Answer:
Correct. Utilitarianism seems intuitive to many people.
4 Which choice does not describe a situation that is covered by the

concept of rights?
.
The necessity of doing something required by
Your authority.
Answer:
Correct.
5 Which statement correctly characterizes moral rights?

.
Moral rights provide individuals with autonomy.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
6 Which statement does not describe an ethical rule governing

contracts?
.
Contracts must bind individuals or agents only; they
Your do not apply to governments.
Answer:
Correct.
7 Kant's "Categorical Imperative" incorporates which of the following

criteria for determining moral right and wrong?
.
Universalizability and reversibility.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
8 "Equals should be treated equally and unequals treated unequally" is

the fundamental principle of which type of justice?
.
Distributive
Your
Answer:
Correct.
9 According to the principles of retributive justice, I have a moral

obligation to compensate an injured party in which of the following
. scenarios?
By stealing pencils from my wealthy employer and

Your selling them on my lunch hour, I save up enough
Answer: money to begin an Internet startup that, ultimately,
drives my employer out of business.
Correct.

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1. Utilitarianism is especially good at reliably predicting

and measuring the benefits and costs of actions.
False
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Answer:
Correct.
2. Utilitarians often measure all costs and benefits using

monetary values.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
3. Rule-utilitarianism is a revised version of utilitarianism

that attempts to answer objections about rights and
justice.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
4. All rights derive in one way or another from the legal

system.
False
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Answer:
Correct.
5. The most important rights are those that impose

prohibitions or requirements on others.
True
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Answer:
Correct.
6. The U.S. Bill of Rights is a good example of a list of

positive rights.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
7. Kant's theory is especially strong in providing a basis

for balancing conflicting rights.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
8. The Puritan work ethic is related to capitalist justice.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
9. John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness is a type of
retributive justice.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
10. The Malden Mills incident shows a perspective on

ethics that neither Kant nor utilitarianism can
adequately explain.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
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1. According to John Locke, humans know that they have a right to

liberty as a result of:
the law of nature.

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2. Which of the following statements is not true of Locke’s State of

Nature?
No people are free and equal.

Your
Answer:
Correct. All people are free and equal in Locke’s State of Nature.
3. Which of the following is a weakness of a Lockean view of rights?
All of the above.

Your
Answer:
Correct. All of the above statements are true.
4. Which of the following is not a weakness of the Lockean defense of

free markets?
It assumes that humans are born dependent on

Your one another.
Answer:
Correct.
5. According to Adam Smith, what should a government that hopes to

advance the public welfare do?
Nothing.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
6. Adam Smith's argument problematically assumes that:
all the resources used to produce a commodity are

Your paid for by the manufacturer.
Answer:
Correct.
7. John Maynard Keynes argues that the total demand for goods and
services is the sum of the demand of all of the following sectors,
except:
environment.
Your
Answer:
Correct.
8. The difference between the value of labor and the wage paid for it
is called:
surplus value.
Your
Answer:
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9. Marx believes that alienation occurs when:
workers are separated from owners into

Your antagonistic social classes.
Answer:
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10 Marx predicts that a society's superstructure is controlled by its:

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substructure.
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1. Free market systems are based on two main components: a private

property system and a command system.
False
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2. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that

"No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property without
due process of law," is derived from the philosophy of John Locke.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
3. Adam Smith's defense of the free market system is basically

utilitarian.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
4. Adam Smith was the first philosopher to provide a utilitarian

argument in support of private property.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
5. English economist John Maynard Keynes is an influential supporter

of Adam Smith's economic theories.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
6. Survival of the fittest means survival of the best.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
7. Marx calls the social controls used in producing goods the forces of
production.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
8. According to Marx, a society's relations of production define the

main classes that exist in that society.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.
9. Marx believes that the solution to capitalist inequalities is

immiseration of the working class.
False
Your
Answer:
Correct.
10 Critics of Marxism contend that justice means distribution

according to contribution.
.
True
Your
Answer:
Correct.

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1. Which choice is not one of the five characteristics that distinguish

They are concerned with laws.

2. Business ethics investigate all of these basic types of issues

3. Globalization is a worldwide process by which the economic and

None of these are traded.

Correct. Goods, services, knowledge, and cultural artifacts are all

4. Multinational corporations face special ethical dilemmas not faced

both of the above.

5. Ethical relativism is the theory that:

different societies have different ethical beliefs and

6. Which of the following statements is true of the development of

7. Which statement reflects the "punishment and obedience

I don't steal because I don't want to be spanked.

A willingness to see the relative value of different

9. Which of the following conditions completely eliminate a person's

10 In which scenario is the subordinate the most guilty?

Your Results for: "You Decide" Print this page

Site Title: Business Ethics: Concepts Summary of Results

1. Moral standards are the standards that we live up to in dealing with

2. Moral standards are associated with special emotions and a special

3. Ethics is not the only way to study morality.

4. Descriptive studies of morality attempt to reach conclusions about

6. Individual issues in business ethics are ethical questions raised

7. All corporate organizations and their acts always depend on human

8. Multinational corporations maintain manufacturing, marketing,

9. New technologies developed in the closing decades of the 20th

10 The higher stages of Kohlberg's moral development are morally

12 Some laws have nothing to do with morality.

14 The term moral responsibility is sometimes used to mean “moral

15 Inability, as a result of either internal or external circumstances,

1 According to the principle of utilitarianism, an action is moral if:

2 According to utilitarianism, to ascertain what to do on any particular

3 Which of the following statements is not true of utilitarianism?

Correct. Utilitarianism seems intuitive to many people.

4 Which choice does not describe a situation that is covered by the

5 Which statement correctly characterizes moral rights?

6 Which statement does not describe an ethical rule governing

7 Kant's "Categorical Imperative" incorporates which of the following

8 "Equals should be treated equally and unequals treated unequally" is

9 According to the principles of retributive justice, I have a moral

By stealing pencils from my wealthy employer and

Your Results for: "You Decide" Print this page

Site Title: Business Ethics: Concepts Summary of Results

1. Utilitarianism is especially good at reliably predicting

2. Utilitarians often measure all costs and benefits using

3. Rule-utilitarianism is a revised version of utilitarianism

4. All rights derive in one way or another from the legal

5. The most important rights are those that impose

6. The U.S. Bill of Rights is a good example of a list of

7. Kant's theory is especially strong in providing a basis

8. The Puritan work ethic is related to capitalist justice.

10. The Malden Mills incident shows a perspective on

Your Results for: Print this page

1. According to John Locke, humans know that they have a right to

the law of nature.

2. Which of the following statements is not true of Locke’s State of

No people are free and equal.

3. Which of the following is a weakness of a Lockean view of rights?

All of the above.

Correct. All of the above statements are true.

4. Which of the following is not a weakness of the Lockean defense of