TESTBANK FOR BUSINESS ESSENTIALS 6TH
CANADIAN EDITION BYEBERT – TEST BANK
,CHAPTER 3
CONDUCTING BUSINESS ETHICALLY AND RESPONSIBLY
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement
or answers the question.
1) Which of the following is correct regarding the Livent situation as described in the opening case?
A)Founders Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were never brought to trial because prosecutors
couldn’t find enough evidence against them
B) Livent continues to be financially successful firm even though it received a lot of bad
publicity about alleged financial manipulation at the firm
C) Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of unethical, but not illegal, behaviour
D) the defence lawyers successfully attacked the credibility of the prosecution witnesses against
Drabinsky and Gottlieb
E) Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of fraud and forgery
Right answer E
Difficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
2) _ are beliefs about what is right and wrong or good and bad.
A)Motivators
B)Ethics
C)Cultures
D)Emotional intelligence
E)Mores
Right answer
BDifficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
3) Ethics are
A) standards or moral values regarding what is right and wrong.
B) avoiding doing things that, if everyone did it, we would have a real mess.
C)believing what’s right for one person is wrong for another.
D)the command to love one another.
E)standards by how we treat one another.
Right answer A
Difficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
4) Which of the following is accurate regarding the E-Business and Social Media Solutions boxed
insert entitled “Ethics in the YouTube Age?”
A) There is very little material on YouTube that does not meet legal requirements
B) Students are often critical of the unethical behaviour of corporations, but many students have no
qualms about illegally downloading songs and movies
C) Downloading music is ethical because the artists that make the songs and movies make so
much money
D) Aspiring artists are hurt less by illegal downloading than established stars
E) All of these are correct
Right answer B
Difficulty:3
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
,A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
5) Behavior that individual beliefs and social norms define as being wrong and bad is called
A)ethical behavior.
B)business ethics.
C)unethical behavior.
D)price gouging.
E)motivation.
Right answer
C Difficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
6) Behavior that conforms to individual beliefs and social norms about what is right and good is
referred to as
A) social reaction behaviour.
B) ethical behaviour.
C) generally accepted behaviour.
D)collusional behaviour.
E)motivational behaviour.
Right answer B
Difficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
7) _ refers to ethical or unethical behaviors by a director or employee of an organization.
A)Social ethics
B) Social responsibility
C) Business ethics
D)Collusion
E)Cartelling Right
answer C
Difficulty:2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
8) The beliefs about what is right or wrong is termed
A)social obligation.
B) ethics.
C) social responsibility.
D) social consciousness.
E) employee empowerment.
Right answer B
Difficulty:1
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
9) Ethical and unethical behaviour is determined partly by the _ and partly by _ .
A)society; culture
B)society; values
C)individual; culture
D)person; religion
E)culture; society
Right answer C
, Difficulty:2
Skill: Recall
Objective: 3.1
A-Heading: Ethics in the Workplace
10) Beliefs about what is right or wrong are called
A)social responsibility.
B) social consciousness.
C) employee empowerment.
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