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The tragedy of the commons explains how countries and individual companies can indulge in practices such as uncontrolled pollution and over-fishing without being called to account. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Power is no more morally neutral than is the use of power. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Just as societies have cultures, so do organizations, and the values and norms of the organization have important influences of the ethics of the business’s decision making. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Neither Utilitarianism nor Kantian ethics can be considered useful today as their development in the 18th and 19th centuries were fundamentally different that the 21stcentury. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Moral courage enables managers to walk away from a decision that is profitable but unethical. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Many of the ethical issues in international business are rooted in the fact that ______________________. |
| | A) | business cannot afford the cost of ethics as a part of decision making |
| | B) | political systems, laws, economic development, and culture vary from nation to nation |
| | C) | businesspeople are, in general, amoral and cannot be bogged down by ethical considerations in decision-making in the fast-paced 21st environment |
| | D) | none of the global institutions has raised ethical concerns to the forefront of consideration |
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An ethical question for international businesses concerning global warming is: |
| | A) | Is it ethical to move production to countries with low environmental standards to avoid tight regulation in others? |
| | B) | Is it ethical to be in violation of the Kyoto accords if the country where the firm is headquartered is not a signatory? |
| | C) | Is it ethical to develop processes to help reduce carbon dioxide production if that process is profitable? |
| | D) | Is it ethical to ignore protests about global warming since there is no consensus or accumulated evidence that global warming exists? |
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Real-world decisions that may be complex, difficult to frame and involve consequences that are hard to quantify can cause __________________ for executives in international business. |
| | A) | legal challenges |
| | B) | ethical dilemmas |
| | C) | ethical conclusions |
| | D) | moral controversies |
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Expatriate managers (home-country managers working abroad in multinational firms) may _______________ as they are away from their ordinary social context and supporting culture, they are psychologically and physically distant from the parent company, and they may be based in a culture that does use the same norms they usually use. |
| | A) | choose the least restrictive ethical practices in the region |
| | B) | create a free-standing code of ethics different form the parent company’s |
| | C) | experience more than the usual degree of pressure to violate their personal ethics |
| | D) | use creative approaches to ethical dilemmas as a foundation for promotion within the firm |
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A recent study of the impact of societal culture and business ethics found that countries where individualism and uncertainty avoidance were _______________ to emphasize the importance of ethics than countries where masculinity and power distance are important attributes. |
| | A) | less likely |
| | B) | no different |
| | C) | unwilling |
| | D) | more likely |
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Straw men approaches to business ethics are used to demonstrate that they offer inappropriate guidelines for ethical decision making in a multinational business enterprise. Which of the following is NOT one of these straw man approaches? |
| | A) | Cultural relativism |
| | B) | The righteous moralist |
| | C) | The naïve immoralist |
| | D) | Justice theories |
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Developed in the 20th century, _____________________ recognize that human beings have fundamental rights and privileges that transcend national boundaries and cultures. |
| | A) | existentialist philosophies |
| | B) | the Nobel Peace and Economics Prizes |
| | C) | rights theories |
| | D) | international cultural conventions |
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Justice theories focus on: |
| | A) | treating people well based on a listing of the fundamental rights and privileges all human beings share. |
| | B) | applying one’s home-country standards to other countries. |
| | C) | increasing a company’s profits through any reasonable means. |
| | D) | attaining a just distribution of economic goods and services. |
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Which of the following is not one of the important elements in building an ethical organizational culture? |
| | A) | Explicitly articulate the values that emphasize ethical behavior |
| | B) | Demonstrate ethical behaviors and emphasize their importance |
| | C) | Incentive and reward systems that support ethical behaviors |
| | D) | Locating operations only in countries with ethical political leaders |
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Part of the ethical decision-making process requires managers to establish moral intent, which is _________________________. |
| | A) | another term for an international business codes of ethics |
| | B) | placing moral concerns above other concerns when the fundamental rights of stakeholders or key moral principles have been violated |
| | C) | the element of corporate culture dealing with relations with internal and external stakeholders |
| | D) | a carefully reading of the host-country laws and regulations affecting ethical decision-making |
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