Midterm 2 (2)

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

B  Write your own test questions

C  Work in pairs or groups to study and review material

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

A  Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.

B  The more you highlight the better

C  Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”

D  Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors

A  Coffee

B  Outlining

C  Highlighting

D  Flashcards

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  Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter

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

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

B  Paraphrasing the reading material as you go

C  Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer

D  Previewing the material

A  Self-assessing

B  Goal-setting

C  Regulating

D  Monitoring

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

B  Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels

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

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

A  employers perceive women as more compliant

B  fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization

C  women have less access to capital

D  women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment

A  these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today

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

C  300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley

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

A  workplace dangers

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

C  discrimination blindness

D  differences in form of address

A  the “glass ceiling”

B  the “glass cliff”

C  ”dual burdens”

D  the “mommy track”

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

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

C  advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft

D  accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies

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

B  there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong

C  it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy

D  it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships

A  traditional conceptual dichotomies

B  gender egalitarianism

C  essentialism

D  traditional gender stereotypes

A  the differences are based on age not gender

B  men and women are “hard wired” to have differences

C  the differences between men and women are “illusory”

D  the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”

A  equal pay for equal work

B  equal opportunity in hiring and promotion

C  removing barriers to education

D  women are systematically disadvantaged

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

B  women earn only 75% of men’s wages

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 could have been prevented

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

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

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

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

B  the financial crisis was unavoidable

C  was the result of failures in corporate governance

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

A  low employee wages

B  expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices

C  ecologically friendly cosmetics

D  employed thousands

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

B  it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority

C  their hearings are closed to the public

D  nations do not have to abide by its rulings

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

B  makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity

C  industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations

D  the race to the bottom

A  is a liberal (libertarian) market approach

B  believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity

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

D  is protectionistic of national economies

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

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

C  it is used to mitigate business cycles

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

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

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

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

D  Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic

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

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

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

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

A  implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers

B  consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors

C  consumers vote with their wallets

D  businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands

A  goods with built in obsolescence

B  landfills and depleting resources

C  shortages and pollution for future generations

D  the invisible hand

A  are a result of the industrial revolution

B  have no obligations to the society

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

D  are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment

A  encourages consumption of finite resources

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

C  functions without government influence or modification

D  has a profound influence over our everyday lives

A  ethical theory is implemented within a wider context

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

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

B  capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected

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

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

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

B  requires role models

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

D  evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history

A  virtues are the same in any particular context

B  virtues are not just learned in the classroom

C  virtues moderate or balance our feelings

D  intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good

A  the aim is eudaimonia

B  concerned with duty to do what is right

C  learned from role models

D  a teleological system

A  Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work

B  Kantian capitalism

C  the traditional view of capitalism

D  Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”

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

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

C  moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances

D  moral actions are based upon our feelings

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

B  determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence

C  motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality

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

A  the problem of how to calculate future welfare

B  utility is not always fair

C  supererogation

D  it may pose a threat to minority groups

A  supererogation

B  the problem of how to calculate future welfare

C  ”sour grapes” syndrome

D  partiality

A  the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests

B  the similarity between legal and moral responsibility

C  the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business

D  the many factors we have to consider

A  corporations are required to have a published mission statement

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

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

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

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

B  right and wrong matter more than praise or blame

C  it is safer to be feared than to be loved

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

A  absolutists

B  coherentists

C  objectivists

D  those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time

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

B  breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory

C  leads to a litigious society

D  advocated by economist Milton Friedman

A  instrumental morality

B  intrinsic morality

C  benign self-interest

D  prudence

A  having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives

B  role morality

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

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

A  metaethics

B  normative ethics

C  virtue ethics

D  utilitarianism

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

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

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

D  it helps us make quick moral business decisions