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Business Ethics

Q: The discipline that deals with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation is A.morality. B.deontology. C.ethics. D.moral philosophy.
Q: __________ built a virtual world model of its Salt Lake refinery for training new operators.a. British Petroleumb. Exxon Mobilc. Shelld. Chevron
Q: One of the functions of corporate governance is A.oversight of senior managers. B.capital budgeting. C.incorporating ethics into the strategic planning process. D.monitoring executive bonuses.
Q: __________ is a social shopping Web site that implemented a reward system for members in which they are paid a commission each time another shopper acts on their recommendations to purchase a specific item.a. Buzzillionsb. ZEBOc. Kaboodled. Stuffpit
Q: The former CEO of Bendix Corporation blames the apparent decline in business's ethical behavior on A.the greed of senior managers. B.the contexts in which corporate decisions are made. C.the lack of required business ethics courses in undergraduate and MBA programs. D.the decline in the importance of religion in American society.
Q: The National Center for Victims of Crime advises victims to__________ .a. destroy all evidence of any contact with the cyberstalkerb. meet in a public place with the cyberstalker to talk things out before involving any law enforcement officersc. not consider getting law enforcement officers involved until the stalker threatens violenced. send the stalker a written notice that their contact is unwanted and that further contact should cease
Q: Public opinion polls regarding business ethics are A.clearly tied to reactions to the latest scandals reported by the media. B.reflective of actual business ethics currently in practice. C.unrelated to actual business ethics practices. D.difficult to assess because the media keeps ethics scandals in the public eye.
Q: A majority of social shopping Web sites generate revenue through__________ .a. retailer advertisingb. sharing with retailers data about their members' like and dislikesc. membership feed. Internet service providers
Q: There is no doubt that the media are A.ignoring ethical violations in their own industry. B.reporting ethical problems more frequently and fervently. C.defending the right of business to be conducted amorally. D.reporting breaches of ethics in politics more than they are reporting business ethics violations.
Q: An NBES Survey concluded that ethical misconduct A.whistle-blowing had decreased. B.In pressure to cut corners had increased. C.at work was down slightly D.was observed more on the job.
Q: Briefly discuss the need of medical information Web sites.
Q: At the macro level, big business is being questioned for its: A.ethical challenges B.legitimacy C.individual activities D.managerial relationships
Q: Define the term telemedicine and briefly describe the various forms of telemedicine.
Q: Briefly describe electronic health records (EHR) and their uses.
Q: The Wall Street financial scandals involved all the following except A.recklessness about risk B.ethical lending C.subprime lending calculations D.greed
Q: Discuss the benefits of using cell phones to bridge the digital divide.
Q: The Enron Era brought about a broad range of legal and ethic charges that included all the following except A.securities fraud B.conspiracy to inflate profits C.corrupt corporate cultures D.building company assets
Q: Moral identification and ordering refers to the ability to discern the ambiguity of moral factors.
Q: Briefly explain the term telework and the factors that have increased its prevalence.
Q: Ethical egoism is based on the idea that the individual should seek to minimize self-interests.
Q: __________ reimburses telecommunications, Internet access, and internal connections providers for discounts on eligible services provided to schools and libraries.
Q: In 2006, Intel introduced a low-cost laptop called the__________ .
Q: The postconventional level of moral development is the most common level for adults over 50 years of age.
Q: There are essentially no technical-support challenges to overcome when using a(n)__________ .
Q: In Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral development, the individual's primary concern is for others.
Q: Amoral management relies primarily on a compliance strategy that focuses on obedience to the law.
Q: The__________ is an inexpensive computer about the size of a credit card.
Q: Researchers have found that many business people go through life thinking that they are objective.
Q: Some studies have estimated that over 98,000 people die in hospitals each year due to__________ .
Q: Virtually all companies that exhibit moral management have had that outlook since they were founded.
Q: Healthcare professionals can use a(n) __________ to generate a complete electronic record of a clinical patient encounter.
Q: Moral management stresses profitability over other stakeholder concerns.
Q: The__________ attempts to improve federal privacy and security measures safeguarding health information.
Q: Immoral management implies that decision makers know right from wrong, but choose to do wrong.
Q: Although slow to invest in IT, the__________ industry was actually a leader in adopting mobile and wireless technology.
Q: The forces that most often come into conflict with ethics in a business setting are economic and social.
Q: __________ reduces the need for patients to travel for treatment and allows healthcare professionals to serve more patients in a broader geographic area.
Q: In making ethical judgments, it is usually easier to reach consensus on individual practical cases than it is to agree on broad principles.
Q: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has stated that it is not acceptable for medical professionals to communicate with patients via__________ .
Q: Ethical behavior is generally considered to be on a higher plane than legal behavior.
Q: The__________ was passed as part of the $787 billion 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act economic stimulus plan.
Q: Some critics believe that the use of EHR may actually have contributed to__________ healthcare costs by making it easier to bill for patient services.
Q: The best reason to base one's ethics on societal norms is that the norms do not conflict; thus they provide clear guidance to "right" and "wrong."
Q: The major questions related to the conventional approach to business ethics are "Whose norms do we use?" and "What norms are prevailing?"
Q: Live telemedicine usually involves a__________ to establish connection between a patient and healthcare providers at different sites.
Q: Patient involvement with remote doctors may have a__________ effect on the local doctors' relationships with their patients and could adversely affect patient care.
Q: Normative ethics depends on whether "everyone is doing it" to justify moral decisions and actions.
Q: Descriptive ethics is concerned with studying and describing the morality of a particular group of people.
Q: __________ requires the presence of patients and healthcare providers at different sites at the same time and often involves a videoconference link between the two sites.
Q: The public's view of business ethics has always been very high until the recent scandals.
Q: Acquiring data, sound, images, and video from a patient and then transmitting everything to a medical specialist for later evaluation constitute__________ .
Q: Laypeople can access reliable and objective information on a wide range of medical topics on__________ .
Q: A 2009 Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey indicated that more than half of Americans believe people use the same ethical standards in business as they do in their personal lives.
Q: A November 2009 Gallop poll revealed that almost 40% of the public thought that business executives had low or very low ethics.
Q: __________ employs electronic information processing and telecommunications to support at-a-distance health care, provide professional and patient health-related training, and support healthcare administration.
Q: An NBES survey indicated that ethical misconduct at work was up slightly.
Q: A(n) __________ is a computer-readable record of health-related information on an individual.
Q: The nonprofit organization__________ has a goal of providing children around the world with low-cost laptop computers to aid in their education.
Q: Only about half of Americans say that they are worried about the moral compass in corporate America.
Q: The ethics scandal that has come to define modern business ethics is the Enron debacle.
Q: The__________ program helps schools and libraries obtain broadband Internet services to advance the availability of educational and informational resources.
Q: Telework allows for the__________ in the event of a local or national disaster and supports national pandemic- preparedness planning.
Q: The majority of Americans think that ethics is about the same as it was fifty years ago.
Q: Public interest in business ethics has heightened over each of the past three decades.
Q: __________ is a work arrangement in which an employee works away from the office.
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Powers and Vogel have suggested that there are six major elements or capacities that are essential to making moral judgments: (1) moral imagination, (2) moral identification and ordering, (3) moral evaluation, (4) tolerance of moral disagreement and ambiguity, (5) integration of managerial and moral competence, and (6) a sense of moral obligation. What is the link of each of these to personal and organizational ethics?
Q: __________ is defined as the amount of output produced per unit of input.
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.Describe and evaluate the reasons that many feminists criticize Lawrence Kohlberg's work on moral development.
Q: The full name of the E-Rate program is__________ .a. National School Lunch Programb. Health Information Technology Programc. Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund d. One Laptop per Child Program
Q: The__________ program in Nepal started in 2008 as a small pilot project in two schools. a. HITECH b. E-Rate c. telework d. OLPC
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Lawrence Kohlberg found that most adults never get to the third level of moral development. What implications for management does this observation have?
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. The three models of ethical management (immoral, moral, and amoral) provide only one "good" example--that of moral management. However, the authors imply that immoral and amoral management are prevalent in our society, while moral management is practiced less. Which is the bigger problem in our society, immoral or amoral management?
Q: Compared to personal computers, cell phones__________ . a. are more expensive b. are less portable c. require a steeper learning curve to master their use d. come with an extended battery life
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. Discuss the relevance of one's motivations to his or her ethical actions.
Q: The__________ is a small, inexpensive computer with either 256 MB or 512 MB of RAM, a 700 MHz processor, one or two USB ports, and an Ethernet port–but no case and no monitor. a. OLPC XO b. Raspberry Pi c. Simputer d. Classmate PC
Q: In 2006, __________ introduced a low-cost laptop called the Classmate PC. a. IBM b. Apple c. Intel d. Microsoft
Q: Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. In the section about the ethics question "what ought to be?" the authors relate a story about a corporate planning seminar. At the seminar, a speaker told the participants that presidents of large corporations should begin their planning processes with a vision of society, not with where they want their firms to be in 5 or 10 years. Evaluate this advice in light of what you have learned about business ethics.
Q: Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. Briefly describe the process of moral development described by Kohlberg.
Q: __________ is the country in Europe with the highest Internet penetration. a. Monaco b. Spain c. Sweden d. Germany
Q: Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. Interpret the authors' statement that "many business people go through life deluded by the illusion of objectivity."
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