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Leadership and Ethics Study Guide Questions
Leadership and Ethics explores the foundational principles of effective leadership alongside the moral and ethical responsibilities expected of leaders in various organizational and social contexts. Students will analyze different leadership styles and frameworks, assess real-world case studies, and engage in critical discussions on ethical decision-making, integrity, and accountability. The course aims to develop students abilities to recognize ethical dilemmas, apply ethical reasoning, and lead with a strong ethical compass, preparing them to foster responsible and value-driven leadership in their future careers.
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Business Ethics Now 3rd Edition by Andrew Ghillyer
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Chapter 1: Understanding Ethics
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Q1) Differentiate between intrinsic and instrumental value.
Answer: Intrinsic value-a value that is a good thing in itself; it is pursued for its own sake,whether anything good comes from the pursuit or not.An example would be happiness or health.In contrast,the pursuit of an instrumental value is a good way to reach another value.For example,money is valued for what it can buy rather than for itself.
Q2) A structured community of people bound together by similar traditions and customs refers to _____________________________.
Answer: society
Q3) The final step in solving an ethical dilemma is to evaluate the results of your decision.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) 12.Simple truth is one of the four basic categories of ethics and can be expressed simply as doing the right thing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Defining Business Ethics
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Q1) The issue of ______ has advanced from an abstract debate to a core performance assessment issue with clearly established legal liabilities.
A)corporate ethics
B)corporate social responsibility
C)corporate donations
D)corporate community involvement
Answer: B
Q2) Unethical corporate behavior could negatively impact customers due to _______.
A)poor service quality
B)loss of employment
C)loss of stock value
D)loss of principle and interest payments
Answer: A
Q3) Do you agree that the standard for corporate governance appears to be at the lowest level in business history? Explain.
Answer: The standard of corporate governance does appear to be at the lowest in business history.There are numerous examples that support this claim.CEO salary increases far exceed those of employees they lead.In addition,products rushed to the market have later been recalled due to safety problems.
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Chapter 3: Organizational Ethics
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Q1) According to the Ethics Resource Center,the most frequently observed misconduct by employees was lying to employees,customers,vendors,or the public.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Marketing professionals abide by a code of ethics of the
Answer: American Marketing Association
Q3) An organization's operating culture is a sum of all the policies and procedures,both written and informal.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Profits are the main reason behind stretching the truth and bending the rules on a regular occurrence in the workplace.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Corporate Social Responsibility
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Q1) Economic CSR is the purest or most legitimate type of CSR.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When organizations pursue a clearly defined sense of social conscience in managing their financial responsibilities to shareholders,their legal responsibilities to their local community and society as a whole,and their ethical responsibilities to "do the right thing" for all their stakeholders,they are following a _____________________ CSR initiative.
Q3) Corporate _______________________ are the actions of an organization that target achieving a social benefit over and above maximizing profits for its shareholders and meeting all legal obligations.
Q4) The policy of _______ is the corporate social responsibility of doing what's in the best in the long-term interest of the customer is ultimately is doing what's best for the company.
A)sustainability
B)doing well by doing good
C)social contract
D)doing well by responsibility
Q5) Describe and explain corporate social responsibility.
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Chapter 5: Corporate Governance
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Q1) The term outside director can be misleading because some outside members may have direct connections to the company.
A)True B)False
Q2) In contrast to the Cadbury report's focus on internal governance,the King report included a code of corporate practices and conduct that went beyond the corporation itself.
A)True B)False
Q3) Explain the significance of the "King I" and "King II" reports.
Q4) The __________________________ committeeis responsible for monitoring the ethical business practices of an organization.
Q5) Corporate governance is the system that directs and controls business corporations.
A)True B)False
Q6) The board of directors runs the organization on a day-to-day basis. A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: The Role of Government
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Q1) The SBDC strictly enforces the FCPA.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The introduction of the______ placed more effective controls over bribing practices and less obvious forms of payment to foreign officials and politicians by American publicly traded companies pursuing international growth.
A)U.S.Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
B)Ethics Resource Center
C)Sarbanes-Oxley Act
D)Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Q3) Payments that are acceptable (legal)provided they expedite or secure the performance of a routine governmental action refer to _______.
A)facilitation payments
B)prohibition payments
C)disclosure payments
D)governmental payments
Q4) Processing government papers such as visas is a routine government action.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Blowing the Whistle
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Q1) ______ is a telephone line where employees can leave messages to alert a company of suspected misconduct without revealing their identity.
A)A whistleblower hotline
B)An employee crisis hotline
C)A company hotline
D)A legal hotline
Q2) A whistleblower hotline can only be successful if trust exists between employees and their employer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n)_______ is an employee who discovers corporate misconduct and chooses to bring it to the attention of others.
A)tattle-tail
B)internal spy
C)whistle-blower
D)chief ethics officer
Q4) When an employee discovers evidence of malpractice or misconduct in an organization,he or she faces an ______________________.
Q5) In the year _________ public awareness of whistleblowers reached a peak.
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Chapter 8: Ethics and Technology
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Q1) The liability argument and the recent availability of capable technology may be driving this move towards an Orwellian work environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare the employer and employee positions on electronic monitoring at the workplace.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a commandment of computer ethics?
A)Thou shalt not use a computer to harm others
B)Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness
C)Thou shalt not use a computer for financial gains
D)Thou shalt not use a computer to steal
Q4) ____ and the recent availability of capable technology may be driving this move towards an Orwellian work environment.
A)Vicarious liability
B)Associative liability
C)The Sarbanes-Oxley discussion
D)The liability argument
Q5) Discuss vicarious liability and cyber-liability.List the top categories of litigation of cyber-liability.
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Chapter 9: Ethics and Globalization
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Q1) From a business ethics perspective,the constant hunger for growth at any cost does not present an ethical dilemma.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Less-developed nations are countries that lack the economic,social,and technological infrastructure of a developed nation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the Global Code of Ethics.Summarize three of DeGeorge's guidelines for organizations for doing business.
Q4) The term globalization has applications in all of the following,EXCEPT _____.
A)legal environment
B)economic environment
C)political environment
D)commercial environment
Q5) Less-developed nations stereotypically know how to play the game of globalization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Making It Stick - Doing Whats Right in a Competitive Market
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Q1) When creating a code of ethics from scratch,the Institute of Business Ethics suggests that an organization get endorsement from the chairperson and the board and pick a well tested model.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Organizational integrity is a characteristic of publicly committing to the highest professional standards and sticking to that commitment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Any organization's commitment to ethical performance must be watched ______.
A)annually
B)quarterly
C)periodically
D)constantly
Q4) A transparent organization tends to avoid open and honest communication with all stakeholders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What can a well written code of ethics do?
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