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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 Write your own test questions
D Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
Question #2
A Highlighting key terms, questions, and key names is a way to preview material before you read the chapter.
B Highlight different elements, i.e. key terms, key names, and questions in different colors
C Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
D The more you highlight the better
Question #3
A Highlighting
B Coffee
C Outlining
D Flashcards
Question #4
A Skimming the material starting from the back of the chapter
B Page through the material looking at the section headings, bold print, and italicized words
C If you are reading a novel read the first line of every paragraph
D Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in the chapter
Question #5
A Paraphrasing the reading material as you go
B Previewing the material
C Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
D Re-reading the material until you remember the key concepts
Question #6
A Regulating
B Self-assessing
C Goal-setting
D Monitoring
Question #7
A Bloom’s taxonomy may be used to help us diagnose our level of learning
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to help us understand our level of learning
C Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
D Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
Question #8
A fewer women have entered the workplace as a result of globalization
B women have less access to capital
C women who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
D employers perceive women as more compliant
Question #9
A in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
B 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
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 workplace dangers
C differences in form of address
D the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
Question #11
A the “glass cliff”
B the “mommy track”
C ”dual burdens”
D the “glass ceiling”
Question #12
A suggests society and the workplace need to take more seriously the perspectives and experiences of women
B advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
C suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
D accepts the notion of gender based dichotomies
Question #13
A it goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
B leads to decisions based upon “rationality tinged with humane concern”
C there is no apparent independent criterion of right and wrong
D it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
Question #14
A essentialism
B gender egalitarianism
C traditional conceptual dichotomies
D traditional gender stereotypes
Question #15
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 the result of “socialization”
D the differences between men and women are “illusory”
Question #16
A equal pay for equal work
B removing barriers to education
C equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
D women are systematically disadvantaged
Question #17
A women earn only 75% of men’s wages
B the rejection by many women of the role of being only mothers and homemakers
C 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
D the post-war economy proving greater employment opportunities for women
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 it could have been prevented
C to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
D it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
Question #19
A the financial crisis was unavoidable
B was the result of failures in corporate governance
C was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
D was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
Question #20
A expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
B employed thousands
C low employee wages
D ecologically friendly cosmetics
Question #21
A their hearings are closed to the public
B it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
C nations do not have to abide by its rulings
D it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
Question #22
A industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
B borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
C the race to the bottom
D makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
Question #23
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
Question #24
A it is used to mitigate business cycles
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 encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
Question #25
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
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 the invisible hand
B landfills and depleting resources
C shortages and pollution for future generations
D goods with built in obsolescence
Question #29
A have no obligations to the society
B are a result of the industrial revolution
C are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
D have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
Question #30
A has a profound influence over our everyday lives
B encourages consumption of finite resources
C functions without government influence or modification
D has resulted in a high standard of living with affordable goods and services
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 sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
B capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
C capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
Question #33
A evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
B requires role models
C does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
D recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
Question #34
A virtues moderate or balance our feelings
B virtues are the same in any particular context
C virtues are not just learned in the classroom
D intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
Question #35
A concerned with duty to do what is right
B the aim is eudaimonia
C learned from role models
D a teleological system
Question #36
A Edward Freeman’s view of “stakeholder theory”
B Norman Bowie’s views of what is meaningful work
C the traditional view of capitalism
D Kantian capitalism
Question #37
A moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B moral actions are based upon our feelings
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
Question #38
A determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
B the morality of an act is determined by the amount of good or evil it produces
C motives are of utmost importance in assessing morality
D ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
Question #39
A it may pose a threat to minority groups
B supererogation
C utility is not always fair
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #40
A ”sour grapes” syndrome
B supererogation
C partiality
D the problem of how to calculate future welfare
Question #41
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
Question #42
A a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
B a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
C individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
D corporations are required to have a published mission statement
Question #43
A a leader has to promote his own interests above all others
B a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
C it is safer to be feared than to be loved
D right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
Question #44
A objectivists
B those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
C coherentists
D absolutists
Question #45
A advocated by economist Milton Friedman
B leads to a litigious society
C demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
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 having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
B making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
C having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
D role morality
Question #48
A utilitarianism
B metaethics
C normative ethics
D virtue ethics
Question #49
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 make quick moral business decisions
D it helps us understand the nature of business and make moral judgments