Is there juristification for any business to be excused and ethical responsibility

1. Egoism focuses on: Personal self-interest
2. "Fat Cat salaries" criticism relates to: Excessive executive pay
3. FAIRNESS and justice are the 2 types of: Managing diversity
4. Mitchell, Agle and Wood (1997) suggest three key relationship attributes likely to determine the perceived importance or salience of stakeholders. Power, Legitimacy and Urgency
5. According to Mitchell et al., stakeholder salience depends upon: Power, Legitimacy and Urgency
6. Transparency improves stakeholder: Trust
7. In order to enhance corporate accountability, corporate social activity, and performance should be made more visible to those with a stake in the corporation. The term usually applied to this is transparency
8. Predatory pricing sets prices: to eliminate rivals unfairly
9. Which of these are not among the types of ethics covered in your lectures? Idealistic Ethics
10. Business ethics refers to decisions where: Right and wrong must be considered

1. According to Crane et al, globalization as defined in terms of the deterritorialization of economic activities is particularly relevant for business ethics, and this is evident in three areas - culture, law, and accountability
2. According to Crane et al., globalisation has important implications for business ethics because it affects: culture, law, and accountability
3. Minimum wage relates to: Fairness in employment
4. Kantian ethics rejects treating people as a means to an end. True
5. Ethical sourcing includes: Labour & sustainability standards
6. Globalisation challenges labour ethics due to: Race to the bottom
7. Deceptive pricing is unethical because it: Misleads buyers
8. "Does this harm the fewest stakeholders?" reflects: Utilitarianism
9. Descriptive ethics studies: How people behave
10. Virtue Ethics can be described as Based on character and integrity

1. The agency problem is caused by misaligned incentives. True
2. Anand and colleagues (2004) identify six different strategies of rationalizing unethical behaviour. What strategy am I using if I make the following argument? "I would not report it because of the loyalty to my boss:" Appeal to higher loyalties
3. Ethical consumption is: Value-driven buying choices
4. Triple Bottom Line stands for: People, Planet, Profit
5. Kant's categorical imperative contains an element defined as "Universal Acceptability". Its thinking is to accept a moral law only if all tfational beings can embrace it. True
6. Rawls' "veil of ignorance" ensures: Fairness without bias
7. Ethics training helps: Build awareness & judgement
8. Corporate governance protects: Shareholder accountability
9. Postmodern ethics emphasises: Emotional moral impulse
10. Sustainability failures create: Long-term social harm

1. According to Crane et al, postmodern ethics recommends the following way of deciding what is right and wrong in a given situation: Individuals should follow their emotions, inner convictions and gut feelings.
2. Carroll's CSR pyramid places economic duty as: Foundational
3. A person can behave legally but still unethically because: Ethics goes beyond law
4. Vulnerable consumers lack: Information & choice
5. Ethics of care prioritises: Empathy & relationships
6. Hofstede (1980, 1994) suggests that differences in cultural knowledge and beliefs across countries can be explained in terms of six dimensions. Read the following description carefully and indicate which of Hofstede's six dimensions it describes: "The extent to which an emphasis is placed on valuing money and things versus valuing people and relationships." Masculinity versus Femininity
7. Corporate citizenship means firms act as: Social actors with responsibilities

1. Egoism focuses on self-interest even if others are harmed. True
2. Consumer sovereignty requires: Information, choice, capability
3. Deontological ethics focus on the outcomes or consequences of actions while teleological ethics focus on the desirability of distinct, abstract principles. False
4. Employee privacy relates to: Monitoring limits & personal data
5. Which of the following is not one of the factors that Crane et al identify as the most important in deciding whether a situation should be assigned a moral status? The decision is likely to be open to legal challenges.
6. Ethical dilemmas occur when: Moral values conflict
7. Sustainability links ethics to : The future impact of decisions
8. Schwartz (2016) identifies two broad perspectives on ethical decision making. The Rationalist Perspective (Blank 1) perspective assumes that ethical decision making occurs in a logical, reasoned manner. This contrasts with the Intuitionist Perspective (Blank 2) 

1. CSR can benefit: Reputation & risk reduction
2. A conflict of interest occurs when: Personal benefit affects judgement
3. Gifts & hospitality require assessment of: Intention, impact, perception
4. An individual's adherence to a consistent set of moral principles or values is known as integrity (Blank 1.)
5. Ethical investment screens companies based on: Labour & environmental practices
6. The simultaneous fair treatment of individuals in a given situation with the result that everybody gets what they deserve, is often called justice (Blank 1.)
7. An information and mobile technology company might call itself ethical because it ...... Please select all that apply.

• Manages and reduces its CO2 emissions
• Protects Consumers (especially children)
• Ensures that its pricing practices are fair

53. SA8000 focuses on: Labour rights & safety

53. Bird and Waters (1989) describe the phenomenon of moral muteness, in which managers reframe moral actions and motives in non-moral terms. Managers do this, say Bird and Waters, because they are worried about perceived threats. Which of the following do managers not feel is under threat through the use of moral terms? Credibility - fear of losing organizational credibility with stakeholders, particularly shareholders.
54. A "virtuous mean" describes: Balance between extremes
55. More recently, the sustainability agenda has ben dominated by the ........ UN Sustainable Development Goals (17 Goals)
56. Normative Stakeholder theory is a theory that attempts to explain how firms take into account stakeholder interests. False
57. ISO26000 focuses on: Ethical & social responsibility
58. Feminist ethics emphasises: Care and relationships
59. Ethical responsibility increases with: Power and impact
60. Board independence reduces: - conflict of interest.

53. Ethical communication requires: - honestly and transparency.
54. Codes of ethics work best when: - supported and monitored.
55. According to Boatright (2014), justice typically entails what two forms of fairness? Fair procedures and fair outcomes.
56. Which of the following does the term of sustainability typically denote? Please select all that apply.

-The concept of system maintenance.

- Intergenerational equity

-Business must pursue environmental and social goals in addition to economic goals.

66. Which of the following are crucial elements of social contracts?

-Agreements are tacit, as they are implied, not explicitly codified

-They are constructed through theoretical processes and therefore are hypothetical

- Citizens voluntarily agree to rule by government and accept its authority

67. Whistleblowing risk includes: - reputation and retaliation.
68. The polluter-pays principle assigns cost to: B. Those causing damage

67. Gig economy concerns include: - insecure work and no benefits
68. The key issue in the social perspective on sustainability is that of social justice. True 
69. Virtue develops through repeated habit. True
70. Social accounting increases transparency. True
71. Ethics is primarily concerned with moral judgement. True
72. Social accounting measures: - social and environmental impact.
73. Whistleblowing is never ethical. False
74. "Bottom of the Pyramid" criticism is/are: C. Exploitation risk
75. Fair competition requires: - no collusion.
76. Sustainability links ethics to: - the future impact of decisions.
77. Separation of ownership & control creates: B. Agency problems
78. Whistleblowing involves: - reporting serious wrongdoing.
79. More recently, the sustainability agenda has been dominated by the ...?
    • Unsustainable development goals 17.
80. Insider trading is unethical because: - uses non-public information.