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When media in India informed the public that Coca-Cola products bottled in India contained a high level of certain cancer-causing pesticides, they were acting in the role of ____.
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Secondary stakeholders.
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Reactive strategy.
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Accomodative.
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Ethical intensity.
Secondary stakeholders are important to a company because ____.
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Is not accurately described by any of these.
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
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All of these statements about whistleblowing are true.
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They can affect public perceptions and opinions.
Former Wal-Mart vice chairman Tom Coughlin allegedly engineered to defraud the company for personal gain. Operations vice president Jared Bowen asserted that information he provided to Wal-Mart spawned the investigation that led to the discovery of Coughlin's activities. Bowen is suing Wal-Mart because they fired him. His lawsuit is an example of ____.
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Discretionary.
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One of the problems of being a whistle blower.
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Because the employees is often the one punished.
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Social responsibility.
Which of the following statements about ethics is true?
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Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.
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Official approval of the company's ethics code by government regulators.
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All of these.
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All of these statements about whistleblowing are true.
Shell Oil Company's plan to sink Brent Spar, an abandoned offshore oil-storage buoy, had a massive effect on employee motivation and recruitment. The number of qualified people applying for jobs at Shell plummeted, and many employees looked for positions in other companies. The plan caused much greater harm than Shell's managers had ever imagined it would. In other words, the plan had a much greater ____ than predicted.
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Customers in the Camden neighborhood.
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Include standards and procedures specific to the forestry industry.
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Reactive strategy.
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Magnitude of consequences.
All of the following are important factors in the creation of an ethical business climate EXCEPT ____.
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Economic and legal responsibilities play a larger role in a company's social responsibility.
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Official approval of the company's ethics code by government regulators.
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Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.
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The Guidelines offer lower fines to companies that take proactive steps.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a stakeholder group that an organization must satisfy to assure long-term survival?
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Achieve all of these.
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The media.
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All of these.
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Defensive.
Ethical intensity depends on all of the following EXCEPT ____.
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Achieve all of these.
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Ethical intensity.
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Do all of these.
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Social commitment.
According to the stakeholder model, which primary stakeholder group is theoretically most important to the company?
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Conventional level.
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Pre-conventional level.
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Because the employees is often the one punished.
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
After identifying the problem in the basic model of ethical decision making, the next step is to ____.
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Pre-conventional level.
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Identify the constituents.
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Post-conventional level.
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Discretionary responsibilities.
What is social responsibility?
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Reactive strategy.
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A business' obligation to pursue policies, make decisions, and take actions that benefit society.
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Pre-conventional level, conventional level, and post-conventional level.
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Personality-based.
A company implementing a(n) ____ strategy would choose to accept responsibility for a problem and do all that society expects to solve problems.
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Defensive.
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Discretionary.
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Accomodative.
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Pre-conventional level.
Bayer AG, Syndial SpA, Crompton Corp., DuPont Dow Elastomers, and Zeon Chemicals are all international manufacturers of rubber chemicals. They have all been indicted as participants in a price-fixing scheme that drove up the costs of rubber chemicals used to make shoes, tires, and other products. They would be most likely to use the ____ model to justify their actions.
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Stakeholder.
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Secondary.
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Shareholder.
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The media.
According to a GAO report, the Department of Defense alone maintains an inventory of at least $100 billion in spare parts, clothing, medical supplies, and fuel. Even though the Department of Defense doesn't classify pilferage as a major problem, its annual inventory shrinkage alone runs $1-2 billion a year. The intentional theft and sale of defense secrets would have greater ethical intensity than this pilferage due to ____.
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Magnitude of influence.
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Economic; discretionary.
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Post-conventional level.
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Social responsibility.
A(n) ____ is a written test that estimates employee honesty by directly asking job applicants what they think or feel about theft or about punishment of unethical behaviors.
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Post-conventional level.
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Conventional level.
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Overt integrity test.
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U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines.
Managers can use integrity tests to _____.
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All of these statements about whistleblowing are true.
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U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines.
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Secondary stakeholders.
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Select and hire ethical employees.
Bayer AG was indicted as a participant in an international price-fixing scheme that drove up the costs of rubber chemicals used to make shoes, tires, and other products. Bayer AG paid its fine but did not admit culpability. Instead, the company announced that paying the fine was less costly than litigation. Bayer AG implemented a(n) ____ strategy.
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Reactive strategy.
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Reactive.
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The media.
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Secondary.
Historically, ____ responsibility means making a profit by producing a product valued by society. It has been the most basic social responsibility of a business.
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Defensive.
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Economic.
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Accomodative.
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Primary.
____ integrity tests indirectly estimate employee honesty by measuring psychological traits.
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Discretionary.
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Pre-conventional level.
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Social commitment.
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Personality-based.
For some time now, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been making anti-AIDS drugs like Retrovir and Epivir available in hard-hit areas of Africa at up to 75 percent off the global price. By providing the drugs at a fraction of their usual costs, GSK was acting at which level of social responsibility?
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Discretionary.
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Whistleblower.
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Pre-conventional.
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Economic.
The ____ model holds that as long as a company is operating legally its only social responsibility is to maximize profits.
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All of these.
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Secondary.
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Shareholder.
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Stakeholder.
Which of the following is a secondary stakeholder group?
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Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.
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Stakeholders.
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The media.
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Temporal immediacy.
Kowalski's Markets expanded in 2002 by purchasing four existing stores. One of the stores was located in Minneapolis' Camden neighborhood, a lower-class community unlike the store's typical upscale customer demographic. Rather than sell the property, the owners decided they had a(n) ____ to provide a neighborhood grocery store to that community.
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Temporal immediacy.
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Social responsibility.
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Magnitude of influence.
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Discretionary.
What does it mean when the text says that the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines use a "carrot and stick" approach?
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Examining the loss incurred by the victims.
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They can affect public perceptions and opinions.
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The Guidelines offer lower fines to companies that take proactive steps.
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines impose smaller fines on companies that ____.
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Have already established a specific type of compliance program.
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Code of ethics.
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Because the employees is often the one punished.
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The Guidelines offer lower fines to companies that take proactive steps.
Ethical intensity depends in part upon ____.
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Personality-based.
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Temporal immediacy.
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Select and hire ethical employees.
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Ethical intensity.
According to Kohlberg's model of moral development, people at the ____ make decisions that conform to societal expectations.
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Magnitude of influence.
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Examining the loss incurred by the victims.
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Conventional level.
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
Why is it often difficult for an employee to assume the role of whistleblower?
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Because the employees is often the one punished.
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Is not accurately described by any of these.
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The Guidelines offer lower fines to companies that take proactive steps.
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Examining the loss incurred by the victims.
A consumer advocacy group is critical of ads by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that claim its Priority Mail is a low-cost, two-day service while failing to disclose that first-class letters generally reach their destination just as quickly and for a tenth the cost. The consumer advocacy group wants the USPS to take ____ responsibility for its actions and do what is right.
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Code of ethics.
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Primary; secondary.
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Legal.
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Ethical.
Companies are not considered unethical if they do not perform their ____ responsibilities.
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Stakeholders.
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Personality-based.
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Discretionary.
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All of these.
In 2001, ramin wood was listed in Indonesia as an endangered species. (Ramin is used to make pool cues and picture frames.) Thus, the exporting of the wood must be regulated by the government. In spite of attempts to control the sale of ramin wood, the wood is still being carried across Indonesia's national borders and sold in Malaysia where government officials pretend the wood was legally acquired. Companies that buy the illegally-gotten wood in Malaysia are ignoring their ____ responsibility to society.
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Reactive.
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Legal.
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Economic.
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Whistleblower.
The ____ determined that companies can be prosecuted and punished for the illegal or unethical actions of employees even if management didn't know about the unethical behavior.
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Is not accurately described by any of these.
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U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines.
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Overt integrity test.
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Secondary stakeholders.
In May 2005, U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan announced that the United States had settled civil claims arising out of a suit that alleged Oracle Corporation had violated the False Claims Act in connection with billing the federal government for software training services. The U.S. government learned about the overcharging from a former Oracle vice president. The vice president acted as a(n)
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Whistleblower.
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Primary stakeholder.
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Stakeholder.
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Discretionary.
In an article about BP Amoco, its CEO said that the company's commitment to ____ is all about trying to align its policies, values, and behavior with those of the societies in which it operates because, ultimately, superior performance means being in touch.
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Social responsibility.
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Discretionary.
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Ethical intensity.
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Secondary stakeholders.
____ stakeholders are any groups that can influence or be influenced by the company and can affect public perceptions about its socially responsible behavior.
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Defensive.
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Primary.
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Secondary.
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Discretionary.
Due to ____ , the intentional pollution of a metropolitan water supply would have greater ethical intensity than insider trading in which a few participants netted less than $10,000.
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Do all of these.
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All of these.
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Stakeholder.
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Shareholder.
The three stages of moral development identified by Kohlberg are ____.
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Economic and legal responsibilities play a larger role in a company's social responsibility.
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Pre-conventional level, conventional level, and post-conventional level.
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Because the employees is often the one punished.
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Official approval of the company's ethics code by government regulators.
Bayer AG, Syndial SpA, Crompton Corp., DuPont Dow Elastomers, and Zeon Chemicals are all international manufacturers of rubber chemicals. They have all been indicted as participants in a price-fixing scheme that drove up the costs of rubber chemicals used to make shoes, tires, and other products. These companies ignored their ____ responsibility to society.
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Act.
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Business magazines that run ads for the training video.
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Legal.
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Primary.
Back in 1995, Mark Graf, a security specialist at the Rocky Flats nuclear facility outside Denver, became alarmed about the temporary removal of 450 kilograms of plutonium oxide from a vault-like room to a "soft room" protected by drywall that you could punch a hole through. Graf eventually had to take his concerns to the media before the plutonium was stored once again in a safe location. Graf was a(n) ____.
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Whistleblower.
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Ethical intensity.
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Magnitude of influence.
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The media.
____ stakeholders are groups, such as shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and local communities, on which the organization depends for long-term survival.
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Secondary.
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The media.
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Ethical intensity.
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Primary.
Which of the following is an example of a stakeholder group that an organization must satisfy to assure long-term survival?
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Do all of these.
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The media.
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All of these.
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Achieve all of these.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines, what is one method used to determine the level of the offense (i.e., the seriousness of the problem)?
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The time, money, and attention diverted to social causes undermine market efficiency.
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
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Examining the loss incurred by the victims.
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Post-conventional level.
IAG (Individualized Apparel Group) formally closed its H. Freeman factory in Philadelphia in May. Jim Brubaker, IAG's division president of clothing, informed the workers of this closing in April. Due to ____, this decision produced strong ethical intensity.
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Temporal immediacy.
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Personality-based.
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Social responsibility.
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Primary stakeholder.
According to Milton Friedman, which of the following is a position opposing the stakeholder model of corporate social responsibility?
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All primary stakeholders are of equal importance.
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The time, money, and attention diverted to social causes undermine market efficiency.
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Conventional level.
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Pre-conventional level.
Which of the following statements about social responsibility is true?
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Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.
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Economic and legal responsibilities play a larger role in a company's social responsibility.
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All of these statements about whistleblowing are true.
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The media.
When addressing issues of high ____ , managers are more aware of the impact their decisions have on others, they are more likely to view the decision as an ethical decision, and they are more likely to worry about doing the right thing.
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Ethical intensity.
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Social responsibility.
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Temporal immediacy.
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Reactive strategy.
When media in India informed the public that Coca-Cola products bottled in India contained a high level of certain cancer-causing pesticides, the Indian government immediately ordered Coke to stop production in its Indian bottling plant until further analysis could be done. The Indian government served as a(n) ____.
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Secondary stakeholders.
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Pre-conventional.
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Reactive strategy.
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Primary stakeholder.
What term describes the degree of concern people have about an ethical issue?
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All of these.
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Temporal immediacy.
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Ethical intensity.
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Do all of these.
According to the ____ model, management's most important responsibility is long-term survival (not just maximizing profits). Long-term survival, according to this model, is achieved by satisfying the interests of multiple corporate stakeholders.
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Shareholder.
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Secondary.
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Magnitude of influence.
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Stakeholder.
According to Kohlberg's model of moral development, people at the ____ use internalized ethical principles to solve ethical dilemmas.
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Post-conventional level.
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Pre-conventional.
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Identify the constituents.
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Stakeholder.
The basic model of ethical decision making ____.
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Is not accurately described by any of these.
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Select and hire ethical employees.
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Social commitment.
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Secondary stakeholders.
Video Arts Inc., a Chicago-based business training company, is currently marketing The Grapevine, a 30-minute training video designed to teach companies how to deal with and prevent damaging gossip. Which of the following is an example of a secondary stakeholder group for Video Arts?
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Examining the loss incurred by the victims.
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Customers in the Camden neighborhood.
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Ethical intensity.
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Business magazines that run ads for the training video.
The last step in the basic model of ethical decision making is to ____.
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All of these.
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Social commitment.
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Ethical intensity.
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Act.
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