Deck 6: Ethics in Business Research

Question 1

Writers are usually in broad agreement with each other over ethical issues and questions.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A universalist stance takes the view that ethical precepts depend upon the context in which the research takes place.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Situation ethics or Principled relativism has two ways of being represented. Please select all that apply.

A) Anything goes
B) No choice
C) The end justifies the means
D) Do no harm

Answer 3

B,C

Question 4

Which of the following is not a core ethical principal around research?

A) There must be no harm to participants
B) There must be no invasion of privacy
C) There must be no controversy around the research
D) There must be no deception involved

Question 5

The purpose of a confidentiality agreement is to define and restrict the type of information that you are permitted to access and establish what kind of information you are able to disclose about the company.

Question 6

Participants in a research study must always remain anonymous.

Question 7

Informed consent must always be obtained from participants as part of a research study.

Question 8

Which of the following is linked to the notion of informed consent?

A) Universalism
B) Control group
C) Privacy
D) Anonymity

Question 9

The collection and storage of digital data has all but eliminated any concerns about confidentiality and other ethical issues.

Question 10

It is expected that researchers will declare any affiliations, conflicts of interests or funding in conducting and publishing their research

Question 11

Under UK law, researchers usually own the copyright of photos they have taken themselves.

Question 12

Researchers who take a photograph of an individual and reproduce it as part of a study should obtain written or verbal consent for doing so.

Question 13

Online discussion lists are public, they can be researched and their data published in your dissertation without any difficulty.

Question 14

According to Zwitter (2014), ethical codes tend not to engage with _______ level considerations of privacy

A) Individual
B) Group

Question 15

Most high-ranking journals in business and management research tend to publish which type of studies:

A) Positivist, qualitative research
B) Positivist, quantitative research
C) Interpretive, qualitative research
D) Interpretive, quantitative research