Deck 2: Ethical Principles in Business

Question 1

Rawls Principle of equal liberty includes:

A) Right to vote
B) Freedom of speech
C) Freedom of arbitrary arrest
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Negative rights are defined entirely in terms of the duties others have not to interfere with you.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

UNOCAL worked with the Burmese army to push the pipeline using forced labor.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Few businesses maintain that the socially responsible course to take is the utilitarian one with the lowest net costs.

Question 5

Major problems with the utilitarian reliance on measurement include:

A) Comparative measures of the values things have for different people cannot be made; we cannot get into each others' skins to measure the pleasure or pain caused.
B) All benefits and costs are possible to measure.
C) The potential benefits and costs of an action cannot always be reliably predicted.
D) All the above
E) A & C

Question 6

Rule utilitarianism looks only at moral rules of a particular action.

Question 7

Utilitarianism characterizes the moral approach taken by Ford in the infamous Pinto case study.

Question 8

Intrinsic goods are things that are desired for their own sake, such as health and life.

Question 9

Immanuel Kant's principle, called the categorical imperative, requires that everyone be treated as:

A) A free and equal person
B) A dependent employee
C) An indentured person
D) A non-resident employee

Question 10

Roche can defend its use of harvested organs solely on the basis of ethical relativism.

Question 11

Utilitarianism is attractive to many because it matches the views we tend to hold when discussing governmental policies and public goods.

Question 12

UNOCAL agrees that it shares responsibility with the Burmese army over treatment of pipeline citizens.

Question 13

Considerations to follow in determining what the moral thing to do might be are:

A) You must determine what alternative actions are available.
B) You must estimate the direct and indirect costs and benefits the action would produce for all involved in the foreseeable future.
C) You must choose the alternative that produces the greatest sum total of utility.
D) All the above
E) A & C

Question 14

Cost-benefit analysis is used to determine the desirability of investing in a project (such as a dam, factory, or public park) by figuring whether its present and future economic benefits outweigh its present and future economic costs.