Deck 13: Business Values Away From Home

Question 1

Business ethics is a type of________ .

A) applied ethics
B) relative ethics
C) false ethics
D) incomplete ethics

Answer 1

applied ethics

Question 2

Moral relativism exists_______ .

A) only in business ethics
B) in most, if not all, Ethical fields
C) in ancient Persia but not in modern times
D) in the Theory of the Forms

Answer 2

in most, if not all, Ethical fields

Question 3

Government regulation of free enterprise should not_______ .

A) protect the public interest
B) promote health and safety
C) encourage monopoly pricing
D) keep competition fair

Answer 3

encourage monopoly pricing

Question 4

Modern day Russia presents perhaps a unique example of_______ .

A) a long tradition of business ethics
B) business ethics under monarchy, dictatorship, and Democracy
C) the interplay between Eastern and Western business ethics
D) business with little or no existing background institutions

Question 5

Host country and home country often have _______.

A) no ethical difference
B) no legal differences
C) different laws governing business activities
D) an acknowledgment that "legal" equals "ethical"

Question 6

Host country and home country often have __________.

A) no ethical difference
B) different ethical standards
C) committees to decide what is mutually ethical
D) clearly similar understandings of the same cultural events

Question 7

A U.S. manager in Saudi Arabia asking Saudi training participants about a hypothetical case in which a manager makes sexually explicit remarks to a new employee of the same gender in a bar is likely to face:

A) Shock
B) Silence
C) A lack of understanding about what a "bar" is
D) All of the above

Question 8

Ethical imperialism holds that ethical standards should be __________.

A) absolute
B) amorphous
C) relative
D) non-existent

Question 9

Which should not guide companies in shaping ethical behaviors?

A) The desire to discipline employees
B) Respect for local traditions
C) The belief that context matters
D) Respect for core human values

Question 10

Ethical business leaders_______ .

A) seek to engage suppliers and customers as well as employees
B) allow for foreign interpretation
C) exercise moral imagination
D) all of the above

Question 11

All chemicals legal in one country are legal in every other country.

Question 12

Leaded gasoline is banned in the United States.

Question 13

Customs regarding gifts to government officials are the same worldwide.

Question 14

Business ethics depends heavily for its context on the structures in which business operates.

Question 15

Business ethics, as an area of study, had its birth in industrial Great Britain.

Question 16

Russians tend to distinguish "business" from the running of factories and other large enterprises.

Question 17

There is no action that is wrong in every system of background institutions.

Question 18

According to cultural relativism, no culture's ethics are better than any other's.

Question 19

There are no fundamental values that cross cultures.

Question 20

Companies have no ethical obligation to help managers distinguish between practices that are merely different and those that are wrong.