University of Dayton

PHL 313

CHAPTER 11

Multiple-Choice Questions

1)Globalization means we are all becoming more alike, and Appiah’s opinion of this is:

1. 1. It is bad, because traditional ways are being lost.
   2. It is bad, because many people are too poor to live the life they want.
   3. It is good, because everyone is getting more access to Guinness and Coke.
   4. It is good, because everyone is getting more access to medicines and clean water.

2. What is Appiah’s point about American soap operas?
   1. How people respond to them depends on their own cultural context.
   2. They are more popular than locally made television.
   3. They are an example of cultural imperialism.
   4. They are spreading American values and beliefs, but this is a good thing.

3. Donaldson argues that the inadequacy of cultural relativism becomes apparent when?
   1. When we consider the case of petty bribery
   2. When we consider practices that are more damaging and serious
   3. When people from two different cultures must find a way to agree
   4. When we consider cases of sexual harassment

4. Which of these is NOT one of Donaldson’s core human values?
   1. Respect for basic rights
   2. Respect for human dignity
   3. Equality
   4. Good citizenship

5. Wettstein thinks that the nature of corporate wrongdoing is changing in what way?
   1. Companies now believe they have a duty to be silent about human rights violations.
   2. Companies are more likely to be directly complicit in human rights violations.
   3. Companies are more likely to be silently complicit in human rights violations.
   4. Companies are less likely to be silently complicit in human rights violations.

6. The two criteria Wettstein offers to determine whether a company has been silently complicit are:
   1. A negative duty and a positive duty
   2. The omission requirement and the legitimization requirement
   3. A duty to do no harm and a duty to help protect
   4. Voluntariness and connection

7. Who was Ken Saro-Wiwa?
   1. A Shell executive who was responsible for the company’s policies in Nigeria.
   2. A Shell executive who blew the whistle on the company’s practices in Nigeria.
   3. A Nigerian government official who accepted bribes from Shell.

1. 4. A Nigerian activist who protested Shell’s practices and was executed.

8. What is the Global Compact?
   1. A set of ethics pledges written by the United Nations that companies may voluntarily sign.
   2. A set of international laws that multinational companies must sign.
   3. An agreement between several of the biggest multinational companies.
   4. A public relations initiative on the part of a few large corporations.

9. Noonan argues that there is a fundamental distinction between:
   1. Ethics and morality
   2. Religion and morality
   3. Bribery and religion
   4. Bribes and gifts

10. Noonan argues that bribes are often disguised as:
    1. Nepotism
    2. Gifts
    3. Loans
    4. Favors

11. Noonan argues that the bribe at its origins depends on:
    1. Religious teaching
    2. Corruption
    3. Bad business
    4. Bad judges

12. Noonan argues that the material injury inflicted by bribery is often:
    1. Grievous
    2. Severe
    3. Undemonstrable
    4. Slight

13. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits bribery and applies to:
    1. U.S. citizens
    2. Anyone offering a bribe or causing a bribe to be offered in U.S. territory
    3. Foreign companies whose securities are traded in the United States
    4. All of the above

14. Which of these guidelines would be most compatible with Confucianism?
    1. Take revenge on those who betray your trust.
    2. Before blaming others, look inward to see if some of the blame is yours.
    3. Attack evil people in order to earn the trust of good people.
    4. Use a detailed contract as the basis for trust.

15. The person of jen is:

1. 1. Refined and trustworthy
   2. A leader who provides for the people
   3. A discerning person who chooses only completely virtuous colleagues
   4. One who conforms to everyone’s expectations

True/False Questions

1. Isaiah Berlin writes that we are “doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.”

2. Appiah’s hometown of Kumasi has been home to a wide variety of people for hundreds of years.

3. Donaldson argues that assumptions about business practices can lead to failure in foreign settings.

4. Wettstein thinks that a company that has no power to influence a human rights violation is therefore silently complicit in it.

5. In Japan, gift giving is a long-standing tradition.

6. Noonan points out that the bribe is a concept “running counter to normal expectations in approaching a powerful stranger.”

7. Noonan points out that every culture treats certain reciprocities with officials as disapproved (and therefore treats these reciprocities as “bribes”).

8. Confucianism focuses on judging other people to determine if they are trustworthy.

9. PureDrug practices the same standards of safety for all markets.

10. IBM executives were aware of the uses Hitler was making of their computers.

Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

1. As opposed to cultural purity, Appiah praises cultural                                              .

2. Kyosei means “living and working together for                                      ” in Japanese.

3. In the late 1980s, some European tanneries unloaded their toxic waste in                                   .

4. When conducting business in a foreign country, Donaldson argues that you must respect local

                           .

5. The                                      requirement means that the agent has failed to speak out to protect victims.

6. A                              is here defined as “a socially disapproved inducement of official action meant to be gratuitously exercised.”

7. Noonan contends that the commonest sanctions against bribes are                                 .

8. The FCPA is the                                 Act.

9. Enforcement of laws against discretion.

has nearly always been a matter of prosecutorial