Test Bank For Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases 9th Edition by William H. Shaw. ISBN: 9781305582088.
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Test Bank For Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases 9th Edition by William H. Shaw. ISBN: 9781305582088.
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TEST BANK Business Ethics: A Textbook with Cases 9/E William Shaw
Chap 01_9e
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. Rules of etiquette are always moral rules.
a. True
b. False
2. "Etiquette" designates a special realm of morality.
a. True
b. False
3. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes right and wrong, or good and bad, human conduct in a business
context.
a. True
b. False
4. If your conduct is legal, it will also be moral.
a. True
b. False
5. An organization is a group of people working together to achieve a common purpose.
a. True
b. False
6. Moral standards concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.
a. True
b. False
7. Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who
raised us as children.
a. True
b. False
8. For philosophers, the important question is not how we come to have the particular moral principles we have, but
whether we can justify them.
a. True
b. False
9. In theory and practice, law codifies customs, ideals, beliefs, and a society's moral values.
a. True
b. False
10. An argument is a group of statements, one of which is claimed to follow from the others.
a. True
b. False
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11. An individual does not have to follow the code of one's profession.
a. True
b. False
12. According to one view in divine command theory, if something is wrong, then the only reason it is wrong is that
God commands that it is wrong.
a. True
b. False
13. One of the major characteristics of an organization is the shared acceptance of organizational rules by its
members.
a. True
b. False
14. A
ristotle argued that living a morally good life is being good at your job.
a. True
b. False
15. Ethical relativism is the theory that what is right is determined by what a culture or society says is right.
a. True
b. False
16. In business and elsewhere, your only moral obligation is to act within the law.
a. True
b. False
17. Most people don't distinguish between a person's "morals" and his or her "ethics."
a. True
b. False
18. Bystander apathy appears to result in part from diffusion of responsibility.
a. True
b. False
19. If you do the right thing only because you think it will pay off, then you are truly motivated by moral concerns.
a. True
b. False
20. There are four basic kinds of law: statutes, regulations, common law, and constitutional law.
a. True
b. False
21. Organizational norms always and inevitably lead to groupthink.
a. True
b. False
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22. In a broad sense morality is the moral code of an individual or of a society (insofar as the moral codes of the
individuals making up that society overlap).
a. True
b. False
23. An argument is valid only if all its premises are true.
a. True
b. False
24. The paradox of hedonism (or the paradox of selfishness) is that people who are exclusively concerned with their
own interests tend to have happier and more satisfying lives than those who are concerned about other people.
a. True
b. False
25. According to Tom Regan, our considered moral beliefs are those we hold only after we have made a
conscientious effort (a) to attain maximum conceptual clarity, (b) to acquire all relevant information, (c) to think
about the belief and its implications rationally, (d) impartially, and with the benefit of reflection, (e) coolly.
a. True
b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
26. The authors use the murder of Kitty Genovese to illustrate
a. ethical relativism.
b. bystander apathy.
c. groupthink.
d. the paradox of hedonism.
27. Choose the statement that gives the most accurate description of etiquette:
a. the rules of etiquette are a fundamental branch of morality
b. conformity with the rules of etiquette is sufficient for moral conduct
c. etiquette refers to any special code of social behavior or courtesy
d. the rules of etiquette are backed by statutory law
28. Which statement is true concerning moral principles and self interests?
a. Statutes are laws applied in the English-speaking world before there were any common laws.
b. Philosophers agree that morality is based on the commands of God.
c. "Groupthink" is a positive and necessary characteristic of all groups.
d. Morality serves to restrain our purely self-interested desires so that we can all live together.
29. Our relationship with the law is best described by which of the following?
a. To a significant extent, law codifies a society's customs, norms, and moral values.
b. The law is a completely adequate guide to the moral standards that we should follow.
c. The law makes all immoral conduct illegal.
d. Violating the law is always immoral.
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30. Moral attitudes are best depicted by which of the following?
a. As long as your conduct is legal, then it will be moral.
b. If you follow the rules of etiquette, your conduct will be moral.
c. Moral standards typically concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.
d. There is no distinction between morality in a broad sense and morality in a narrow sense.
31. The code or principles of conduct that a person accepts
a. constitute the whole of his or her morality.
b. can be distinguished from the person's morality in a broader sense that includes his or her values, ideals,
and aspirations.
c. rarely guide his or her conduct in practice.
d. i s the same as the standards of etiquette that a person accepts.
32. When religion and morality are considered:
a. the moral instructions of the world's great religions are often general and imprecise.
b. most people act rightly only because their religion tells them to.
c. atheists are likely to be less moral than religious people.
d. in practice, people who share a religion will agree on all moral questions.
33. Which of the following characteristics distinguishes moral standards from other sorts of standards?
a. moral standards are purely optional
b. moral standards take priority over other standards, including self-interest
c. moral standards cannot be justified by reasons
d. moral standards must be set or validated by some authoritative body
34. Ethical relativism supports the theory that:
a. what is right is determined by what a culture or society says is right.
b. there are no moral values whatsoever.
c. morality is relative to the goal of promoting human well-being.
d. different societies have similar ideas about right and wrong.
35. A tangible truth about having moral principles is
a. moral behavior always pays off in strictly selfish terms.
b. morally responsible companies are rarely among the most profitable.
c. if you do the right thing only because you think it will pay off, you're not really motivated by moral
concerns.
d. business is fundamentally an amoral activity.
36. Morality and self-interest
a. can sometimes conflict.
b. boil down to the same thing.
c. can never come into genuine conflict.
d. are in basic, irreconcilable conflict.
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