“The Price is a book written by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Its contents can be summarised in

one simple principle – ‘the end justifies the means’.
 Which theory demonstrated the weakness of the abovementioned principle?
Select one:

A.
Universalism

B.
Personal liberty

C.
Utilitarianism
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When confronted with an ethical dilemma, a choice should be made after considering
the potential harms and benefits of the options.
 Which of the following views of ethics does the above approach employ in resolving
ethical dilemmas?
A.
Universalism

B.
Kantian Rights

C.
Utilitarianism
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Which of the following is a weakness of Universalism?

Select one:

A.
There is a low degree of moral reasoning
B.
There are too many priorities

C.
There are no stated priorities
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Immanuel Kant states that every human being has certain basic rights.
 Which of the following is NOT a Kantian right?

A.
Right of judgement

B.
Right of freedom

C.
Right of free consent
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On August 14, 2000, a Russian nuclear powered submarine, The Kursk, sank to the
bottom off the Barents coast after two explosions on board. The British and Norwegian
governments offered to help, but the head of the Russian government refused. Five days
later, all the 118-member crew perished.
 Which element was his decision based on?
A.
Personal values and morals

B.
Life experience

C.
Situational factors
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Which description represents the “instrumental argument” in support of the stakeholder

A.
Protect the organisation’s long term relationship with the stakeholders

B.
Address stakeholder concerns while ensuring profits for the organisation

C.
Fullfil the organisations’s duty to stakeholders as it is the right thing to do
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Secondary stakeholders can be described as individuals or groups who are ____________

A.
engaged in a strong, direct relationship with the organisation.

B.
affected by but cannot affect the actions of the organisation.

C.
able to affect and be affected by actions of the organisation.
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Which party is categorised as a market stakeholder?

A.
Media

B.
Creditors

C.
Government
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Which of the following is an ethical responsibility of an organisation towards its
stakeholders?

A.
Operate the organisation within the minimum requirements of the law

B.
Abide by all the rules and procedures of the local and federal authorities

C.
Organise and participate actively in community and social programmes
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A consumer demands that SONY Corporation immediately replaces the defective LED
television she recently bought at a price of RM25,000. 
The consumer’s relevance as a stakeholder can be identified through the inherent
element of ______________.

Select one:

A.
legitimacy

B.
power

C.
urgency
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Which of the following best describes Islam at the height of its civilisation?

A.
Oppressive

B.
Regressive

C.
Progressive
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Which of the following is part of an unethical advertising agenda?

A.
Holding sales promotions too frequently

B.
Providing poor customer services

C.
Defaming the products of competitors
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The hazardous working conditions in a company’s factory had been reported to the
authorities. The company had taken minimal steps in response to it and would only
make further improvements if another official complaint was made. It can thus avoid or
postpone the costs it has to incur. 
Which method of analysis regarding the ethical problems in management has the above
company used in reaching its decision to postpone further improvements?
A.

Legal

B.
Ethical

C.
Economic
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“To produce goods with environmentally unsafe materials will definitely damage the
environment, but improve companies’ profits due to lower cost of production.” 
Which characteristic of ethical problems in management does the above issue relate to?
A.

Multiple alternative

B.
Extended consequences

C.
Mixed outcome
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Which characteristic describes the nature of ethical decisions that consider the social
costs and benefits from alternative ethical choices?

A.
Extended consequences

B.
Personal implications

C.
Mixed outcomes
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It is commonly thought that ethical issues in management are largely antithetical, with
directly opposed financial returns and social costs. the antithetical model for outcome
evaluation presents ethical issues in sharp focus but it does not accurately portray the
managerial dilemma. Social benefits and costs as well as financial revenues and expenses
are associated with almost all the alternatives in ethical choices.
The correct answer is: Mixed outcomes
An Australian tourist disagrees with the Malaysian court’s judgement convicting him for
dangerous driving that resulted in a pedestrian’s death. The tourist had exhausted all
avenues for appeal or pardon. 
What should be the tourist’s morally right course of action?
A.

Appeal to the Australian government for help to bail him out

B.
Engage a new lawyer to continue pursuing his believed justice

C.
Adhere with the court’s judgement and serve his conviction
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What do members of society hope to achieve during the political process in the
formation of the law?

A.
Ensure norms, beliefs and values held remain intact

B.
Resolve whatever conflicts that exist between them

C.
Reinforcement or increase in their political influence
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What factor would cause the moral standards of individual members of society to be
misrepresented in the consensus of large organisations in the transfer from individual
moral standards to legal requirements?

A.
Individual members may not have equal influence in determining the general on the
moral issue

B.
Individual members’ motives are not always driven by morality but also by economic
benefits and prestige

C.
Individual norms, beliefs and values tend to be compromised when they become
associated in groups
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“While the law forbids us from harming other people, moral requirements insist that we
help others in society.” 
What relationship between legal requirements and moral standards is emphasised in the
above statement?
A.

Law is often negative while the standards of morality are often more positive

B.
Law provides belated remedies to the moral problems that exist in a society

C.
Law tends to fall behind the apparent moral standards of members of society
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When a business firm is faced with a conflict between its economic performance and its
social performance, what is the morally acceptable guide to resolve the conflict?

A.
Top managers’ personal moral opinions

B.
Collectively made judgement by society

C.
Economic forces of supply and demand
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Which structural characteristic of large companies today is said to be the cause of most
unethical behaviours found in management?

A.
Diversified and departmentalised

B.
Concentrated and centralised

C.
Divisionalised and decentralised
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In order to resolve an ethical issue, there must be a balance between ____________.

a.
economic and social performance.

B.
ethical and unethical performance.

C.
financial and material performance.
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What action reflects a manager’s unethical attempt to enhance his/her performance in
line with the objectives of today’s common company management planning systems?

A.
Channelling part of the company’s exorbitant client charges to discreet charitable
foundations

B.
Adopt higher component specifications for the company’s best-selling product at
existing prices

C.
Marking down materials suppliers’ contract prices to achieve better unit cost of
production
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Which factor is the cause for the lower effectiveness of codes of ethics in shaping moral
organisational behaviour?

A.
Responsibilities of senior management to organisational constituents are ambiguous

B.
Lack of priorities between the values and actions of members in a given situation

C.
Beliefs and norms of the organisations often conflict with the interests of constituents
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given situation

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What criteria of numerical measures can be more emphatically used by companies to
achieve a better balance in performance from the ethical point of view?

A.
Demand for higher dividend returns

B.
Community attitude and grievances

C.
Sales revenues and fixed expenses
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Which scenario depicts the entrepreneurial era of social responsibility in the United
States of America correctly.

Select one:

A.
Businesses were small and were mainly under the control of the government

B.
Industry leaders built empires while evading tax and also receiving kickbacks

C.
Citizens’ social awareness inspired the emergence of civil rights movements
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How do indirect regulations influence the social responsibility of organisations?

Select one:

A.
Discourages business’ activities in non-preferred sectors

B.
Impose acts of law, such as the environmental legislation

C.
Stipulates organisational actions under a crisis situation
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Which argument supports the concept of social responsibility?

Select one:

A.
Businesses often have the resources to solve the problems created

B.
The purpose of business is to generate profit for its owners

C.
Involvement in social programmes gives businesses more power and influence
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Which of the following represents an argument against social responsibility?

Select one:

A.
Business entities create problems and should therefore help to solve them

B.
Corporations are part of a society’s citizens and residents

C.
Businesses lack the expertise to manage social programmes
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What social responsibility approach is adopted when an organisation believes that it
should only be minimally involved in solving social problems?

Select one:

A.
Social obstruction

B.
Social obligation

C.
Social contribution
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Which of the following is NOT a likely consequence of insider trading?

A.

Employees of the firm stand to lose their jobs

B.
Suppliers may suffer damage to their reputation

C.

Shareholders may have to incur large losses

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“Accountability” as a component of corporate governance serves to ___________.
A.

align management actions with mission and vision.

B.

minimise the abuse of power by top management.

C.

improve the organisation’s decisions and actions.

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Which statement regarding the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance is TRUE?
A.

It is governed by the Securities Commission to safeguard government’s interest.

B.

It is intended mainly to regulate all matters related to securities and future contracts.

C.

It is composed of two parts, namely the principles and the best practices sections.
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principles and the best practices sections. The Code, which aims to achieve optimum
governance framework, is divided into two parts:

 Principles of corporate governance; and

 Best practices of corporate governance.

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Which of the following is NOT an aspect that would bring benefits as a result of good
corporate governance?
A.

Corporations’ using the ‘shareholder model’ should shift to ‘stakeholder model’

B.

Self-assessments of employees to reflect their effectiveness in the corporation

C.

Greater government involvement and presence to enhance economic reforms

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According to Ferrell, 2011 and Thorne, 2010, the element that corporations hope to
continuously secure from stakeholders through corporate governance is ____________.
A.

loyalty

B.

capital

C.

trust
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What is the moral significance of employment in a capitalistic economic system?

A.
Result in various social problems in modern society

B.
Employment provides citizens with a means to sustain their basic needs

C.
Employees have the opportunity to acquire wealth and high social status
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Which theory supports that affirmative action is a morally acceptable practice?

Select one:

A.
Utilitarianism

B.
Distributive justice

C.
Personal liberty
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What employee wage principle justifies that a senior worker be paid higher than his
junior colleagues if he is able to work more efficiently?

Select one:

A.
Equal pay for efficient work

B.
Equal pay for equal work

C.
Equal pay for comparable work
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Equal pay for equal work states that people performing the same kind of work must be
paid the same salaries as well. 
Equal pay for comparable work is to pay civil servants the same salaries if it can be
demonstrated that jobs involving different responsibilities, such as tree trimmers and
lorry drivers, require the same relative levels of education, skill, knowledge and
experience.
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What is the purpose of having ‘anecdotal information’ during employee ranking and
rating sessions?

A.
To provide inputs that reinforces the employer company’s objectives

B.
To identify employees’ work performance attributes accurately

C.
To exhibit concrete evidence of employee achievements and failures
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A poultry farm preferred to employ more men than women as general workers. The new
management, however, recently began recruiting more women with the intention to
provide a better gender balance in its workforce. 
What recruitment approach did the new management adopt?

Select one:

A.
Equal opportunity

B.
Preferential treatment

C.
Affirmative action
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in preference to those from non-minority groups.
The correct answer is: Preferential treatment

What moral condition would allow an employer to conduct employee substance tests
‘after the fact’?

A.
Investigations have linked damages of company facilities to alcohol consumption

B.
Sources of poor employee work performance have been discovered by managers

C.
Testing requirements and procedures have been duly circularised to all employees
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Which of the following acts can be considered as an invasion of employee privacy?

Select one:

A.
Checking employee claims when they make one

B.
Rewarding and advising employees based on their work performance

C.
Using threats to force employees to do things that are illegal
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Which substance testing approach should be adopted when the risk of harm to people
or property that may be caused by a drunken employee’s error is high?

A.
Probable cause
B.
Random test

C.
After the fact
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What is the moral argument that permits employers to obtain potential employees’
personal details as part of their selection process?

A.
Applications can easily be rejected if details do not meet requirements

B.
Employees are the main cause of most failures and losses in business

C.
Company assets and facilities have often been damaged by employees
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Which opinion represents the cultural relativists’ view regarding employee abuse?

Select one:

A.
Abusive acts are acceptable if such practice is tolerated by the majority.

B.
Any act of abuse on employees would be a violation of human respect.

C.
Acts of abuse can be supported if it was done with the best of intentions.
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is tolerated by the majority.
Companies are justified to fire, demote or cut short the careers of employees if he/she
whistle-blows due to ______________.

A.
acting on grounds that another manager is falsifying expense accounts

B.
acting out of revenge against fellow employees or supervisors

C.
suspecting that another manager is taking kickbacks from suppliers
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Which of the following events justifies an employee to specifically conduct of external
whistle-blowing?

A.
No action has been taken to stop wrongdoing

B.
Wrongdoing is not known to the management

C.
Significant harm has already befallen the firm
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What is the basic moral obligation of every employee to their employers that forms the
very essence of employment contracts?

A.
Perform duties with competence

B.
Keep all company trade secrets

C.
Deny any company wrongdoing
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Assume that you have witnessed your colleague packing home selected food items from
the office pantry and you want to put a stop to it. 
What course of action would be most morally appropriate for you to initially take?

A.
Confront and convince your colleague to stop the habit

B.
Inform all your other colleagues about the wrongdoing

C.
Consider  the possible damage to your own reputation
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Which of the following action would be considered to be against the concept of
company loyalty most seriously?

A.
A manager sharing his company’s successful achievements with her close friends.

B.
A teacher indulging in foul language when he gets drunk in the neighbourhood pub.

C.
A retired senior manager who likes talking about his sexual exploits while in service.
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Which form of organisational ethical codes generally lists what an employee
should NOT do, rather than what he/she should do, in the course of daily work?

Select one:

A.
Norms
Correct – Norms mean standards of behaviour, which are the ways in which the top
management wants employees to act or do in a given situation (refer Sect. 5.1).

B.
Beliefs

C.
Values
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Which structural characteristic of large companies today is said to be the cause of
most unethical behaviours found in management?

Select one:

A.
Diversified and departmentalised

B.
Centralised and divisionalised

C.
Divisionalised and decentralised
Correct – Divisionalisation and decentralisation would mean that as companies are
separated into various divisions with their own respective goals to achieve, the divisions
become more autonomous. As HQ control over the division diminishes, more unethical
behaviours emerge (refer Sect. 5.2).
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Which action reflects a manager’s unethical attempt to enhance his/her
performance in line with the objectives of the company?

Select one:

A.
Channeling part of the company’s exorbitant client charges to discreet charitable
foundations

B.
Marking down the prices of materials supplies in order to achieve better unit cost of
production
Correct – Marking down the prices of materials may allow for lower unit costs, and thus
show higher profits. However, like most things unethical, the manager’s success may be
short-lived as the mark-downs would be discovered in a matter of time (refer Sect. 5.2).

C.
Adopt higher component specifications for the company’s best-selling product at
existing prices
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Which of the following represents an argument against social responsibility?

Select one:

A.
Businesses lack the expertise to manage social programmes
Correct – Lacking in expertise to manage corporate social responsibility is an acceptable
argument against social responsibility (refer Sect. 6.3).

B.
Business firms create problems and should help solve them

C.
Corporations are also a part of society’s citizen and resident
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What social responsibility approach is adopted when an organisation believes that
it should only be minimally involved in solving social problems?

Select one:

A.
Social obligation

B.
Social obstruction
Correct – This means that the company would usually do as little as possible in being
socially responsible. Whenever there is no clear line of ethics or law to define their
actions, these companies would deny or cover up their actions (refer Sect. 6.4).

C.
Social response
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Which constitutes an INFORMAL organisational approach to managing social
responsibility?

Select one:

A.
Top management disseminates clear definitions of social responsibility for employees to
adopt.

B.
Committees are established to review the extent to which employees abide by ethical
and legal standards.
Incorrect – Ethics committees are formally formed within an organisation’s structure and
are therefore also a formal approach in managing organisational social responsibility
(refer Sect. 6.8).
Besides the whistle-blowing approach, the clear definitions of social responsibility would
be the other approach in providing the appropriate leadership and culture in the
informal management of a socially responsible organisation (refer Sect. 6.8).

C.
Organisations include spending on charitable programs and activities in their financial
budgets.
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What is the element that corporations hope to continuously secure from
stakeholders through corporate governance according to Ferrell, 2011 and Thorne,
2010?

Select one:

A.
Loyalty

B.
Capital

C.
Trust
Correct – Trust is what corporations strive to gain from the majority of both the primary
and secondary stakeholders (refer Sect. 7.1).
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Which is NOT an aspect of good corporate governance?

Select one:

A.
Self-assessments of employees to reflect their effectiveness in the corporation

B.
Greater government involvement and presence to enhance economic reforms

C.
Corporations using the ‘shareholder model’ should shift to ‘stakeholder model’
Incorrect – The ‘stakeholder model’ is currently the more acceptable approach upon
which the spirit of corporate governance was formed (refer Sect. 7.6).
It is not the self-assessment of employees that is the focus, but the performance and
effectiveness of the company’s board of directors and top management (refer Sect. 7.6).
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Which is NOT a likely consequence of insider trading?

Select one:

A.
Suppliers may incur damage to their reputation
Correct – The company’s suppliers would not be affected, assuming they have no
involvement in the illegal trading of the company’s shares (refer Sect. 7.2).

B.
Customers may not get services they deserve
C.
Employees of the firm stand to lose their jobs
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A poultry farm had preferred to employ men as general workers. The new
management, however, recently began a policy of recruiting only women with the
intention of providing a better gender balance in its workforce. 
What recruitment approach has the new management adopted?

Select one:

A.
Preferential treatment

B.
Affirmative action
Incorrect – Affirmative action seeks to offers employment and promotion opportunities
to all who qualify, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, etc. (refer Sect. 8.2.3).
Preferential treatment commits the same offence it is supposed to put right, i.e. hiring a
person based on characteristics that has no relevance to the job’s performance (refer
Sect. 8.2.3).

C.
Equal opportunity
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What employee wage principle justifies that a senior worker be paid higher than
his junior colleagues if he is able to work more efficiently?

Select one:

A.
Equal pay for equal work
Correct – The equal pay for equal work principle provides that people performing the
same kind of work shall be paid the same salaries. However, a senior worker doing a
similar job may be able to work faster or more efficiently than juniors due to his/her
experience, thus justifies a higher pay (refer Section 8.2.5).

B.
Equal pay for productive work

C.
Equal pay for comparable work
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What is the purpose of having ‘anecdotal information’ during employee ranking
and rating sessions?

Select one:

A.
To provide evidence of employees’ achievements and failures
Correct – Anecdotal information, which is clearly recorded, helps to support/verify the
employees’ achievements or failures without a doubt (refer Sect. 8.4).

B.
To reinforce the employer company’s set goals and objectives

C.
To identify employees’ work performance attributes accurately
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Which act can be considered as an invasion of employee privacy?

Select one:

A.
Using threats to force the employees to do things that are illegal
Correct – Threatening employees to force them to commit crimes or wrongdoings
against their will and conscience is a clear invasion of their privacy (refer Sect. 9.1).

B.
Checking on the employees’ expense claims when they make one

C.
Forcing employees to take leave as employer has cash problems
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What is the moral argument that permits employers to extensively obtain the
personal details of potential employees in their selection process?

Select one:

A.
Candidates’ qualifications and experiences can be properly assessed

B.
Applications can easily be rejected if job requirements were not met

C.
Employees are the main cause of the failures or losses in many firms
Correct – Employees have been shown to be capable of causing these harms and
damages, especially from drugs and alcohol abuse. This justifies the employers’ demand
for more extensive details beyond their qualifications and experiences, such as the
candidates’ personal/family history and background, health and medical records as well
as any references (refer Sect. 9.1).
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Which substance testing approach is more suitable when the risks of harm to
people or property caused by the drunken employees’ errors are high?

Select one:
A.
Random test
Correct – ‘Random tests’ are more appropriate when risks of harm or damage are high
and ensure that all employees are tested in a fair and indiscriminate manner (refer
Section 9.2).

B.
Before the fact

C.
After the fact
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Which opinion represents the cultural relativists’ view regarding employee abuse?

Select one:

A.
Any act of abuse on employees would be a violation of human respect.

B.
Acts of abuse can be supported if it was done with the best of intention.
Incorrect – The acceptance of a particular behaviour based on intentions describes the
Universalism principle (refer Sect. 9.3 and 1.3).
Cultural relativism means that ethical principles are defined based on a particular
society’s culture and generally accepted behaviour (refer Sect. 9.3 and 1.2).

C.
Abusive acts are acceptable if such practice is tolerated by the majority.
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Which action would be considered to be most seriously against the concept of
company loyalty?

Select one:

A.
A retired senior manager who likes talking about his sexual exploits while in service.

B.
A lecturer discussing methods to improve the assignments given to her students.

C.
A teacher indulging in foul language when he gets drunk in the neighbourhood pub.
Correct – The teacher’s behaviour would cause damage not only to his/her personal
reputation, but also the employers and is against certain religion’s practices as well (refer
Sect. 10.1).
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What is the basic moral obligation of every employee to their employers that
forms the very essence of employment contracts?

Select one:

A.
Deny any company wrongdoing

B.
Make favorable press statement

C.
Perform duties with competence
Correct – As employees, discharging their duties competently is one of the main
obligations to their employers (refer Sect. 10.1).
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Assume that you have witnessed your colleague packing home food items from the
office pantry and you want to put a stop to it.
What course of action would be more morally appropriate for you to initially take?

Select one:

A.
Lodge an official complaint to the immediate supervisor

B.
Confront and convince your colleague to stop the habit
Correct – Give your colleague every opportunity to discontinue the immoral action, i.e.
stealing, before taking any other form of action (refer Sect. 10.1)
C.
Inform all your other colleagues about the wrongdoing
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Which is NOT the valid reason for companies to fire, demote or terminate an
employee if he/she whistle-blows? 

Select one:

A.
By acting on envy for a fellow colleague’s or supervisor’s success
ncorrect – The company is justified in its actions because blowing the whistle on a
colleague or supervisor out of jealousy is ill-intended and immoral (refer Sect. 10.3). 
Blowing the whistle on a person backed by strong evidence of the wrongdoing that
he/she has committed is a moral action. The company has no justification to take any
form of disciplinary action against the employee (refer Sec. 10.3).

B.
By acting on evidence that a supervisor has falsified his expenses

C.
By acting on belief that a manager is moonlighting for competitors
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