Test Bank For Managing Business Ethics Straight Talk About How To Do It Right 6th Edition By Trevino

Test Bank For Managing Business Ethics Straight Talk About How To Do It Right 6th Edition By Trevino

ISBN-10: 1118582675, ISBN-13: 978-1118582671

Chapter 1, Introducing Straight Talk about Managing Business Ethics: Where we’re Going and Why

True/False

1. The interest in business ethics is just a fad that has only recently been created by popular scandals (i.e., Enron, WorldCom, etc.) reported in the news.

Ans: False

Response: See page 2.

Difficulty: Easy

2. Discarding the few “bad apples” will usually solve all of the ethical problems within an organization.

Ans: False

Response: See page 14.

Difficulty: Easy

3. Good character is the main factor determining whether an individual acts ethically within an organization.

Ans: False

Response: See page 16.

Difficulty: Moderate

4. Federal laws define what is ethical. Therefore, all unethical behavior is considered unlawful.

Ans: False

Response: See page 21.  Some unethical behavior is not covered by law (for example, lying to a manager about the reason for taking a sick day).

Difficulty: Difficult

5. Both characteristics of the environment and the individual contribute to unethical behavior.

Ans: True

Response: See page 15.

Difficulty: Easy

6. When employees come to an organization, they have already developed into “good” or “bad” apples. Therefore, there is little a manager can do to impact an employee’s ethical behavior.

Ans: False

Response: See page 14.

Difficulty: Moderate

7. According to the authors, most people are guided by a strict internal moral compass and will not be swayed by organization factors.

Ans: False

Response: See page 15.

Difficulty: Moderate

8. By ignoring the topic of ethical behavior, an organization may actually be encouraging unethical behavior through benign neglect.

Ans: True

Response: See page 19.

Difficulty: Easy

9. It is unethical for managers to “control” employees’ ethical behavior through direct management and the organization’s formal and informal cultural systems.

Ans: False

Response: See page 19.

Difficulty: Difficult

10. For individuals, values can be defined as “one’s core beliefs about what is important, what is valued, and how one should behave across a wide variety of situations.”.

Ans: True

Response: See page 30.

Difficulty: Moderate