Business Ethics Week 5

University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
BUS 204 | Fundamentals of Business Law and Ethics
Academic year:

2019
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378

Pages:

1
Author:

Kaiden Murphy

Business Ethics Q & A Week-5 Q & A In the absence of common sense, corporations can be held responsible for consumer’s lack of proper use of their products. Selected Answer: A. True Correct! After the landmark case of the McDonald's customer not realizing the coffee is indeed hot, the consumers are expected to exercise a certain modicum of common sense. However, beyond that, the corporations are held accountable. Over the years, many corporations have been called out for their deceptive marketing practices. Even though consumers are more aware of this, marketing is still following deceptive practices. Selected Answer: B. FALSE, regulations and guidelines are in place to prohibit deceptive marketing. Correct! Years ago, the American Marketing Association put into place guidelines and regulations that protected the consumers from inappropriate marketing practices as well as preying on vulnerable groups. Marketing and advertising is too invasive, for example, text messages on smartphones and mailing lists shared without the consumers knowledge. Selected Answer: B. False Correct! This is not considered to be invasive if the consumer has the ability and right to opt out of receiving the messages or texts. This is very much like receiving junk mail at your residence. There are too many government product regulations for consumers (i.e., do not remove the tag from the pillow). Selected Answer: A. True Correct! While regulations in theory are meant to protect the consumer, some do tend to go too far in the name of protection.