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An Introduction to Business Ethics
Joseph R. DesJardins
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7th Edition
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, TABLE OF CONTENTS
An Introduction to Business Ethics (7th Edition)
Joseph R. DesJardins
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Chapter 1 Why Study Ethics?
Chapter 2 Ethical Theory and Business
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Chapter 3 Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 4 Corporate Culture, Governance, and Ethical Leadership
Chapter 5 The Meaning and Value of Work
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Chapter 6 Moral Rights in the Workplace
Chapter 7 Employee Responsibilities
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Chapter 8 Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing
Chapter 9 Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Digital Marketing
Chapter 10 Sustainability and the Natural Environment
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Chapter 11 Workplace Diversity and Discrimination
Chapter 12 International Business and Globalization
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, Student name:__________
1) Which of the following statements is decisive in determining whether or not to study
business ethics?
A) Business managers don't need to study ethics in order to know how to treat employees,
shareowners, and customers.
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B) Business and ethics simply don't mix. In the final analysis, self-interest, represented
by profit, overrides the interests of employees, customers, and communities. Opinion
and sentiment get in the way of efficient business decision-making.
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C) Ethical concerns are as unavoidable in business as are concerns of marketing,
accounting, finance, and human resources. Formal study of business ethics helps
address these concerns so that businesses can integrate ethics in their decision-making.
D) The answers to ethical questions are clear-cut enough; all business people already
know right from wrong.
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2) Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationship between philosophical
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ethics and ethos?
A) Individuals who obey the conventions, mores, and rules of their cultures are already
acting ethically. No further philosophical reflection is required.
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B) Philosophical ethics distinguishes what people do value from what they should value.
C) What people do value and should value is, for all practical purposes, the same.
D) Philosophical ethics is too abstract to be useful in everyday life situations. Following
the mores and customs of one's culture is a more dependable way to make moral
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decisions.
3) Ethics refers to the beliefs, values, and principles that guide a person's life and decisions.
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⊚ false
4) Ethical behavior and an ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage in the
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marketplace and with customers, suppliers, and employees.
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⊚ false
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, 5) In a society that values individual freedom, everything that is legal is ethically right and
everything that is ethically wrong is illegal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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6) Unlike Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for accountants, there are no
principles, standards, concepts, or values common to business ethics.
⊚ true
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⊚ false
7) The role of an ethics course should be to convey information to a passive audience, while
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treating students as passive learners.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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8) The unexamined life, according to Socrates, is not worth living.
⊚ true
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⊚ false
9) Business ethics is concerned more with reasoning than answers.
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⊚ true
⊚ false
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10) If something is seriously wrong, the law will prohibit it. Consequently, it's enough to rely on
the law for deciding what's right or wrong.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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11) Ethics and ethos are the same thing.
⊚ true
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⊚ false
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An Introduction to Business Ethics
Joseph R. DesJardins
ST
7th Edition
UV
IA
?_
AP
PR
OV
ED
? ?
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
An Introduction to Business Ethics (7th Edition)
Joseph R. DesJardins
ST
Chapter 1 Why Study Ethics?
Chapter 2 Ethical Theory and Business
UV
Chapter 3 Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 4 Corporate Culture, Governance, and Ethical Leadership
Chapter 5 The Meaning and Value of Work
IA
Chapter 6 Moral Rights in the Workplace
Chapter 7 Employee Responsibilities
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Chapter 8 Marketing Ethics: Product Safety and Pricing
Chapter 9 Marketing Ethics: Advertising and Digital Marketing
Chapter 10 Sustainability and the Natural Environment
AP
Chapter 11 Workplace Diversity and Discrimination
Chapter 12 International Business and Globalization
PR
OV
ED
??
, Student name:__________
1) Which of the following statements is decisive in determining whether or not to study
business ethics?
A) Business managers don't need to study ethics in order to know how to treat employees,
shareowners, and customers.
ST
B) Business and ethics simply don't mix. In the final analysis, self-interest, represented
by profit, overrides the interests of employees, customers, and communities. Opinion
and sentiment get in the way of efficient business decision-making.
UV
C) Ethical concerns are as unavoidable in business as are concerns of marketing,
accounting, finance, and human resources. Formal study of business ethics helps
address these concerns so that businesses can integrate ethics in their decision-making.
D) The answers to ethical questions are clear-cut enough; all business people already
know right from wrong.
IA
2) Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationship between philosophical
?_
ethics and ethos?
A) Individuals who obey the conventions, mores, and rules of their cultures are already
acting ethically. No further philosophical reflection is required.
AP
B) Philosophical ethics distinguishes what people do value from what they should value.
C) What people do value and should value is, for all practical purposes, the same.
D) Philosophical ethics is too abstract to be useful in everyday life situations. Following
the mores and customs of one's culture is a more dependable way to make moral
PR
decisions.
3) Ethics refers to the beliefs, values, and principles that guide a person's life and decisions.
OV
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Ethical behavior and an ethical reputation can provide a competitive advantage in the
ED
marketplace and with customers, suppliers, and employees.
⊚ true
⊚ false
??
Version 1 1
, 5) In a society that values individual freedom, everything that is legal is ethically right and
everything that is ethically wrong is illegal.
⊚ true
⊚ false
ST
6) Unlike Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for accountants, there are no
principles, standards, concepts, or values common to business ethics.
⊚ true
UV
⊚ false
7) The role of an ethics course should be to convey information to a passive audience, while
IA
treating students as passive learners.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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8) The unexamined life, according to Socrates, is not worth living.
⊚ true
AP
⊚ false
9) Business ethics is concerned more with reasoning than answers.
PR
⊚ true
⊚ false
OV
10) If something is seriously wrong, the law will prohibit it. Consequently, it's enough to rely on
the law for deciding what's right or wrong.
⊚ true
⊚ false
ED
11) Ethics and ethos are the same thing.
⊚ true
??
⊚ false
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