MGMT411 Chapter 4 Test Bank Questions and Answers {Distinction}

Ethics is the code of moral principles and values that governs the behaviors of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong. a. True b. False - -True -On the continuum of amounts of explicit control associated with the domains of human action, free choice lies between the domains of codified law and ethics. a. True b. False - -False -If an act is not illegal, it must be ethical. a. True b. False - -False -The moral agent is the individual who must make an ethical choice in an organization. a. True b. False - -True -The utilitarian approach to ethical decision making sidesteps debates about what is right, good, or just and bases decisions on prevailing standards of the profession and the larger society, taking the interests of all stakeholders into account. a. True b. False - -False