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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Attend class or watch video lectures and take notes by hand
B Taking good notes and relying on the lecture material makes buying the book unnecessary
C Work in pairs or groups to study and review material
D Write your own test questions
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 The more you highlight the better
D Highlight “breadcrumbs” left by the author, like “There are three reasons…First…Second…Third”
Question #3
A Outlining
B Flashcards
C Coffee
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 Look at charts, graphs, or pictures in 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 Previewing the material
D Writing down questions you want the reading material to answer
Question #6
A Regulating
B Goal-setting
C Monitoring
D Self-assessing
Question #7
A Creating, evaluating, and analyzing are at the bottom of the Bloom pyramid
B Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchy of learning levels
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 who are no longer engaged in subsistence farming must seek seasonal employment
D women have less access to capital
Question #9
A these kinds of cases are exceedingly rare today
B 300 women filed similar complaints against Morgan Stanley
C she settled her case four years later for $12 million
D in 1996 she filed a sexual discrimination complaint against Morgan Stanley with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
Question #10
A the reluctance of women to charge in cases of sexual harassment
B workplace dangers
C differences in form of address
D discrimination blindness
Question #11
A ”dual burdens”
B the “glass cliff”
C the “mommy track”
D the “glass ceiling”
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 suggests society and the workplace have systematically devalued women’s experience
D advocated by Mary Woolstonecraft
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 goes against the traditional male view of classical philosophy
D it embraces the idea of interdependent relationships
Question #14
A gender egalitarianism
B traditional gender stereotypes
C essentialism
D traditional conceptual dichotomies
Question #15
A men and women are “hard wired” to have differences
B the differences between men and women are the result of “socialization”
C the differences between men and women are “illusory”
D the differences are based on age not gender
Question #16
A women are systematically disadvantaged
B equal pay for equal work
C removing barriers to education
D equal opportunity in hiring and promotion
Question #17
A 6 million women joining the workforce during World War II
B women earn only 75% of men’s wages
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 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 it can be traced to identifiable mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and Transocean
D to be allowed to drill on the outer continental shelf is a private right to be exercised
Question #19
A the financial crisis was unavoidable
B was the result of failures in corporate governance
C was the result of a combination of excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency
D was the result of a systematic breakdown in accountability and ethics
Question #20
A employed thousands
B low employee wages
C expanded internationally with willing customers and competitive prices
D ecologically friendly cosmetics
Question #21
A it reflects the power and influence of its richer and more powerful nations
B it is an unelected and undemocratic transnational authority
C nations do not have to abide by its rulings
D their hearings are closed to the public
Question #22
A makes business more efficient and leads to greater worldwide prosperity
B borders are open for trade but closed to immigrants who want jobs
C industrial pollution “blows away” into other nations
D the race to the bottom
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 operates by means of regulations, taxation, and government spending
C it is encouraged by free market advocates like Ayn Rand and Robert Nozick
D it is used to mitigate business cycles
Question #25
A Russia making territorial claims on the Arctic
B Destruction of Gulf of Mexico resources by BP’s Deep Water Gulf Oil Disaster
C Ammon Bundy’s group occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
D Mylan Pharmaceutical’s unjustified inflation of Epi-Pen pricing
Question #26
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
Question #27
A consumers vote with their wallets
B implies that business has a duty to provide moral goods and services to customers
C businesses are a conduit for consumers’ demands
D consumer reaction to moral issues is combined with other factors
Question #28
A the invisible hand
B shortages and pollution for future generations
C goods with built in obsolescence
D landfills and depleting resources
Question #29
A are run by executives who face a challenging ethical environment
B have no obligations to the society
C are a result of the industrial revolution
D have considerable social and economic power to shape public opinion and legislative policy
Question #30
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
Question #31
A ethical theory will provide an easy recipe for right action in every case
B ethical theory provides the basis “normative action” based upon outcomes, duties, and virtues
C ethical theory provides an analytical framework for making decisions about what we should do
D ethical theory is implemented within a wider context
Question #32
A capitalism sometimes needs to be monitored and corrected
B Adam Smith advocated making merchants and manufacturers “rulers of mankind”
C capitalism left unchecked may lead to excessive, unreasonable, and/or harmful acts
D capitalism makes a good servant to human flourishing, but a poor master
Question #33
A requires role models
B does not lend itself well to corporate statements and management literature
C evaluates actions as part of a continuing personal history
D recognizes that actions take place within communities and must be judged in those terms
Question #34
A virtues are the same in any particular context
B virtues are not just learned in the classroom
C intellectual virtues make someone clever but not necessarily good
D virtues moderate or balance our feelings
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 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”
Question #37
A moral action is imperative because we have no alternative to do otherwise
B moral laws apply categorically in all circumstances
C maxims can be tested by whether or not they are consistent
D moral actions are based upon our feelings
Question #38
A ethics is based on our ability to reason and our freedom of choice
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 determining moral action does not rely on outside evidence
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 the problem of how to calculate future welfare
C partiality
D ”sour grapes” syndrome
Question #41
A the difficulty in analyzing ethical issues in business
B the many factors we have to consider
C the many stakeholders and their incompatible interests
D the similarity between legal and moral responsibility
Question #42
A a mission statement shows that a company may not be purely egoistic
B individual corporations can differ greatly in their goals and what they believe is appropriate behavior
C a more outwardly directed mission statement recognizes the conflict between making a profit and meeting the needs of other stakeholders
D corporations are required to have a published mission statement
Question #43
A right and wrong matter more than praise or blame
B a bold leader should acquire and use power for his personal advantage
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 those who believe moral truths apply throughout space and time
B coherentists
C absolutists
D objectivists
Question #45
A breeds the belief that the other business party is predatory
B demonstrates that most of our business dealings are based on mistrust
C leads to a litigious society
D advocated by economist Milton Friedman
Question #46
A instrumental morality
B benign self-interest
C intrinsic morality
D prudence
Question #47
A making no distinction between different roles in our lives and what is moral behavior
B having a single set of ethical standards that apply throughout our life
C role morality
D having a baseline of moral decency consistent throughout our lives
Question #48
A normative ethics
B metaethics
C virtue ethics
D utilitarianism
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 understand the nature of business and make moral judgments
D it helps us make quick moral business decisions