Business Ethics Week 8 Quiz

Business Ethics Q & A Week-8 Quiz Question 1 Choose the most accurate statement concerning the workplace: Selected Answer: An employer's financial capabilities affect what constitutes a fair wage scale for that employer's employees. Correct An employer's financial capabilities affect what constitutes a fair Business Ethics Q & A Answer: wage scale for that employer's employees. Question 2 Which of these is a valid reason for not hiring a potential employee? Selected Answer: The person has a lack of experience. Correct Answer: The person has a lack of experience. Question 3 Tests are designed to measure the applicants’ skills in verbal, quantitative, and Selected Answer: logical skills. Correct Answer: logical skills. Question 4 Of the four types of discharge, firing Selected Answer: is for-cause dismissal—the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on. Correct Answer: is for-cause dismissal—the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on. Question 5 Griggs v. Duke Power Company, which prohibits Selected Answer: employers from requiring a high school education as a prerequisite for employment or promotion without demonstrable evidence that the associated skills relate directly to job performance. Correct Answer: employers from requiring a high school education as a prerequisite for employment or promotion without demonstrable evidence that Business Ethics Q & A the associated skills relate directly to job performance. Question 6 According to David Ewing, two factors explain the absence of civil liberties and the prevalence of authoritarianism in the workplace. Which of the following is one of them? Selected Answer: the rise of personnel engineering and professional management Correct Answer: the rise of personnel engineering and professional management Question 7 In union terms, a direct strike occurs Selected Answer: when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force the employer to comply with its demands. Correct Answer: when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force the employer to comply with its demands. Question 8 Which of the following is a correct statement about union activities? Selected Answer: A sympathetic strike occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others. Correct Answer: A sympathetic strike occurs when workers who have no particular grievance of their own and who may or may not have the same employer decide to strike in support of others. Question 9 The hiring process needs to include screening, testing, and Selected Answer: interviewin g. Business Ethics Q & A Correct Answer: interviewin g. Question 10 Choose the factual statement concerning wages: Selected Answer: A fair wage presupposes a fair work contract. Correct Answer: A fair wage presupposes a fair work contract. Question 11 Since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1994, Selected Answer: employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers. Correct Answer: employers must make "reasonable accommodations" for disabled workers. Question 12 To be successful any test used by a corporation must be Selected Answer: d. vali Correct Answer: d. vali Question 13 Which statement is true about the hiring and employment process? Selected Answer: According to common law, unless there is an explicit contractual provision to the contrary, every employment is employment "at will." Correct According to common law, unless there is an explicit contractual Business Ethics Q & A Answer: provision to the contrary, every employment is employment "at will." Question 14 Austin Fagothey and Milton Gonsalves believe a direct strike is justified Selected Answer: when it is a last resort. Correct Answer: when it is a last resort. Question 15 Fair personnel policies and decisions must be based on criteria that are clear, job related, and Selected Answer: equally applied. Correct Answer: equally applied. Conflict of interest is when someone has an interest that conflicts with the interests of the company and it's significant enough to have a chance of motivating behavior that conflicts with the interests of the company. Selected Answer: A. True Correct! True - this is a correct statement. Business Ethics Q & A Grease payments are payments similar to bribes but intended to get officials to do their normal job duties rather than to do something illegal or unethical. Selected Answer: A. True Correct! This is a correct statement. Proprietary data is meant to give people or companies a monopoly over the information so they benefit from their inventions and discoveries. Selected Answer: A. True Correct! This is a correct statement. Whistle-blowing is alerting the public of illegal or unethical behavior done by a company by those who work for the company or used to work for it. Selected Answer: A. True Correct! This is a correct statement. Question 1 Conflicts of interest Selected occur when employees' private interests are substantial enough Business Ethics Q & A Answer: to potentially interfere with their job duties. Correct Answer: occur when employees' private interests are substantial enough to potentially interfere with their job duties. Question 2 A "trade secret" Selected Answer: can become part of an employee's technical knowledge, experience, and skill. Correct Answer: can become part of an employee's technical knowledge, experience, and skill. Question 3 In determining the morality of giving and receiving gifts in a business situation, which of the following factors is MOST relevant? Selected Answer: the purpose of the gift Correct Answer: the purpose of the gift Question 4 Insider trading is Selected Answer: the buying or selling of stocks (or other financial securities) by business “insiders” on the basis of information that has not yet been made public and is likely to affect the price of the stock. Correct Answer: the buying or selling of stocks (or other financial securities) by business “insiders” on the basis of information that has not yet been made public and is likely to affect the price of the stock. Question 5 Whistle-blowing involves exposing activities that are Business Ethics Q & A Selected Answer: immoral or illegal. Correct Answer: immoral or illegal.