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INTB 265

Ch.5

1)A_is an individual or group that has an interest or claim in what a company does and how well it performs.

•             Supplier

•             Competitor

•             Trustee

•             Drawee

•             stakeholder

 

2.            One root cause of unethical behavior in business is

•             A strong sense of personal ethics

•             Pressure to meet unrealistic performance goals

•             A societal culture with low power distance

•             Management’s ability to see beyond economic benefits

•             Organization culture that emphasizes business ethics

 

 

3.            Strategies that not only help the multinational firm make good profits, but that do so without harming the environment while simultaneously ensuring that the corporation acts in a socially responsible manner with regard to its stakeholders are called

•             Kantian strategies

•             Sustainable strategies

•             Utilitarian strategies

•             Moral strategies

•             Righteous strategies

 

 

4.            If Kendra was working in the home office in Ohio she never would have agreed to pay the government official to speed up the delivery of the cargo; but since she is working in

 

the company’s foreign office, she agrees to the practice since it is considered normal in this country. Which philosophical approach to ethics is Kendra using to make her decision?

•             Kantian approach

•             Cultural relativism

•             Naïve immoralism

•             Righteous moralism

•             Friedman doctrine

 

5.            John, an American executive, learns that a foreign subsidiary hired a 12-year-old orphan girl to work on the factory floor. He knows that using child labor is in direct violation of the company's own ethical code. At the same time, he does not think that denying the child her only source of income is right. John is facing

•             The stakeholder doctrine

•             The tragedy of the commons

•             Positivity effect

•             An ethical dilemma

•             The sustainability effect

 

6.            During the second stage of the ethical decision-making process, managers must determine whether a proposed decision would violate

•             Home country values

•             Utilitarian beliefs

•             The global commons

•             The fundamental rights of any stakeholders

•             A righteous distribution

 

7.            A number of employees at Sports Plus Inc., which is headquartered in a country where masculinity and power distance are high, do not behave in an ethical manner. In this context, the roots of unethical behavior can be traced to

•             The organizational culture

•             Unrealistic performance goals

•             The legal environment

•             The company’s leadership

•             The societal culture

 

8.                           gives employees the integrity to go public to the media and blow the whistle on persistent unethical behavior in a company.

•             Moral courage

•             Cultural relativism

•             Righteous moralism

•             Moral imagination

•             Naïve immoralism

 

9.            Daria owns 100 shares of stock in Dow Corning. She would be considered a(n)

•             Internal stakeholder

 

•             Mini-multinational

•             External stakeholder

•             Customer

•             Supplier

 

10.          Saturn Systems Inc., which is headquartered in the United States, has its production plant located in a less-developed country where working conditions are poor. For example, employees work 15-hour shifts, are exposed to toxic chemicals, and are forced to work overtime. What type of behavior is Saturn Systems Inc. exhibiting?

•             Unethical

•             Just

•             Uneconomical

•             Fair

•             Courageous