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