Midterm 2

A  Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary

B  Write your own test questions

C  Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand

D  Work in pairs or groups to study and review material

A  Highlighting

B  Coffee

C  Flashcards

D  Outlining

A  If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph

B  Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter

C  Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words

D  Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter

A  Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer

B  Previewing the material

C  Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts

D  Paraphrasing the reading material as you go

A  Goal-setting

B  Regulating

C  Monitoring

D  Self-assessing

A  Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels

B  Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning

C  Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid

D  Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning

A  she settled her case four years later for $12 million

B  in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission

C  300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley

D  these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today

A  the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment

B  workplace dangers

C  differences in form of address

D  discrimination blindness

A  the “glass ceiling”

B  the “mommy track”

C  ”dual burdens”

D  the “glass cliff”

A  advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft

B  suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women

C  accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies

D  suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience

A  leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”

B  there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong

C  it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships

D  it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy

A  women earn only 75% of men’s wages

B  the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women

C  6 million women joining the workforce during World War II

D  the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers

A  it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean

B  it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis

C  it could have been prevented

D  to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised

A  the financial crisis was unavoidable

B  was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency

C  was the result of failures in corporate governance

D  was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics

A  employed thousands

B  low employee wages

C  ecologically friendly cosmetics

D  expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices

A  their hearings are closed to the public

B  nations do not have to abide by its rulings

C  it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations

D  it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority

A  makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity

B  industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations

C  the race to the bottom

D  borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs

A  is a liberal (libertarian) market approach

B  has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)

C  is protectionistic of national economies

D  believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity

A  it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending

B  it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick

C  it is used to mitigate business cycles

D  it is used to protect personal rights in the work place

A  Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

B  Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing

C  Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster

D  Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic

A  people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry

B  producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer

C  failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community

D  CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market

A  the invisible hand

B  landfills and depleting resources

C  shortages and pollution for future generations

D  goods with built in obsolescence

A  are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment

B  have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy

C  have no obligations to the society

D  are a result of the industrial revolution

A  has a profound influence over our everyday lives

B  encourages consumption of finite resources

C  has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services

D  functions without government influence or modification

A  ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues

B  ethical theory is implemented within a wider context

C  ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case

D  ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do

A  capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts

B  capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master

C  Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”

D  capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected

A  recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms

B  does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature

C  evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history

D  requires role models

A  intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good

B  virtues are not just learned in the classroom

C  virtues moderate or balance our feelings

D  virtues are the same in any particular context

A  learned from role models

B  the aim is eudaimonia

C  concerned with duty to do what is right

D  a teleological system

A  Edward Freeman

B  W.D. Ross

C  Norman Bowie

D  Immanuel Kant

A  Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work

B  Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”

C  the traditional view of capitalism

D  Kantian capitalism

A  moral actions are based upon our feelings

B  moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances

C  moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise

D  maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent

A  ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice

B  motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality

C  determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence

D  the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces

A  utility is not always fair

B  the problem of how to calculate future welfare

C  supererogation

D  it may pose a threat to minority groups

A  supererogation

B  partiality

C  the problem of how to calculate future welfare

D  ”sour grapes” syndrome

A  the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests

B  the similarity between legal and moral responsibility

C  the many factors we have to consider

D  the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business

A  individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior

B  a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders

C  a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic

D  corporations are required to have a published mission statement

A  good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions

B  a life worth living comes from cooperative endeavors

C  it is always in our best interest to compete and dominate

D  we tend to be more cooperative if we have to deal with the same people over and over

A  a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage

B  it is safer to be feared than to be loved

C  a leader has to promote his own interests above all others

D  right and wrong matter more than praise or blame

A  coherentists

B  absolutists

C  objectivists

D  those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time

A  advocated by economist Milton Friedman

B  demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust

C  leads to a litigious society

D  breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory

A  benign self-interest

B  intrinsic morality

C  instrumental morality

D  prudence

A  having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life

B  having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives

C  making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior

D  role morality

A  metaethics

B  virtue ethics

C  utilitarianism

D  normative ethics

A  it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions

B  it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments

C  it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business

D  it helps us make quick moral business decisions