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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
B Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
C Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
D Write your own test questions
Question #2
A The more you highlight the better
B Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
C Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
D Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors
Question #3
A Coffee
B Outlining
C Flashcards
D Highlighting
Question #4
A If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
B Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
C Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
D Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #5
A Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
B Previewing the material
C Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
D Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
Question #6
A Self-assessing
B Regulating
C Goal-setting
D Monitoring
Question #7
A Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
B Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
C Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
D Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
Question #8
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
Question #9
A 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
B these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
C in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
D she settled her case four years later for $12 million
Question #10
A discrimination blindness
B differences in form of address
C workplace dangers
D the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
Question #11
A the “glass cliff”
B ”dual burdens”
C the “mommy track”
D the “glass ceiling”
Question #12
A accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
B suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
C suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
D advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
Question #13
A it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
B leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
Question #14
A gender egalitarianism
B traditional conceptual dichotomies
C essentialism
D traditional gender stereotypes
Question #15
A the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
B men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
C the differences are based on age not gender
D the differences between men and women are “illusory”
Question #16
A equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
B equal pay for equal work
C removing barriers to education
D women are systematically disadvantaged
Question #17
A 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
B women earn only 75% of men’s wages
C the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
D the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
Question #18
A it undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators and our own capability to respond to this kind of crisis
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 could have been prevented
Question #19
A was the result of failures in corporate governance
B was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
C the financial crisis was unavoidable
D was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
Question #20
A low employee wages
B employed thousands
C ecologically friendly cosmetics
D expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
Question #21
A nations do not have to abide by its rulings
B it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
C it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
D their hearings are closed to the public
Question #22
A the race to the bottom
B industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
C borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
D makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
Question #23
A is a liberal (libertarian) market approach
B believes boosting fair competition will result in greater worldwide prosperity
C is protectionistic of national economies
D has accelerated since 1995 with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Question #24
A it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
B it is used to protect personal rights in the work place
C it operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
D it is used to mitigate business cycles
Question #25
A Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
B Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
C Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
D Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
Question #26
A producing sweatshop apparel where the costs for healthcare, unemployment and safety are borne by the employees and not the manufacturer
B failing to fix a car’s oil leak choosing instead to transfer the cost of the environmental burden to the community
C CocaCola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury-Schweppes control of 90% of the US soft drink market
D people living near a coal-fired power plant who must clean the power plant’s soot off their laundry
Question #27
A businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
B consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors
C implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers
D consumers vote with their wallets
Question #28
A landfills and depleting resources
B shortages and pollution for future generations
C the invisible hand
D goods with built in obsolescence
Question #29
A have no obligations to the society
B are a result of the industrial revolution
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
Question #30
A functions without government influence or modification
B has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
C has a profound influence over our everyday lives
D encourages consumption of finite resources
Question #31
A ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
B ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
C ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
D ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
Question #32
A capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
B Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
D capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
Question #33
A recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
B requires role models
C evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
D does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
Question #34
A intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
B virtues moderate or balance our feelings
C virtues are not just learned in the classroom
D virtues are the same in any particular context
Question #35
A concerned with duty to do what is right
B the aim is eudaimonia
C a teleological system
D learned from role models
Question #36
A Kantian capitalism
B Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
C Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
D the traditional view of capitalism
Question #37
A maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #38
A motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
B ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
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
Question #39
A supererogation
B the problem of how to calculate future welfare
C utility is not always fair
D it may pose a threat to minority groups
Question #40
A supererogation
B ”sour grapes” syndrome
C the problem of how to calculate future welfare
D partiality
Question #41
A the many factors we have to consider
B the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
Question #42
A a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B corporations are required to have a published mission statement
C a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
D individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
Question #43
A a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
B right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
C a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
D it is safer to be feared than to be loved
Question #44
A coherentists
B absolutists
C objectivists
D those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
Question #45
A demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
B advocated by economist Milton Friedman
C leads to a litigious society
D breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
Question #46
A instrumental morality
B benign self-interest
C intrinsic morality
D prudence
Question #47
A having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B role morality
C having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
D making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
Question #48
A normative ethics
B utilitarianism
C virtue ethics
D metaethics
Question #49
A it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
B it helps us examine the fundamental assumptions and conceptual foundations of business
C it helps us examine the arguments businesses use for their actions
D it helps us make quick moral business decisions