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Lawrence Kohlberg's model of moral development includes all of the following levels except


A) the preconventional level.
B) the conventional level.
C) the postconventional level.
D) law and order morality.

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Public interest in business ethics is at an all-time high.

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The "integrity strategy" espoused by Lynn Sharp Paine is similar to the


A) immoral management model.
B) moral management model.
C) semi-moral management model.
D) amoral management model.

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The ethics scandal that has come to define modern business ethics is the Enron debacle.

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The challenge in all managerial situations is take what can be done and what should be done and find


A) a balance.
B) the more practical solution.
C) the least costly approach.
D) the most effective action.

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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -Describe how a Venn diagram can help a manager evaluate moral dilemmas and come to decisions about those situations.

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The authors suggest using a Venn diagram...

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The most serious danger of using the conventional approach to business ethics is


A) reliance on normative ethics without regard to descriptive ethics.
B) lapsing into ethical relativism.
C) lack of innovation in ethical judgments.
D) stunting one's moral development.

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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer. -Briefly describe the process of moral development described by Kohlberg.

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Kohlberg said that people develop their ...

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tilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. -Discuss the relevance of one's motivations to his or her ethical actions.

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Put another way, this question asks whet...

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tilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. -The three models of ethical management (immoral, moral, and amoral) provide only one "good" example--that of moral management. However, the authors imply that immoral and amoral management are prevalent in our society, while moral management is practiced less. Which is the bigger problem in our society, immoral or amoral management?

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Moral management stresses profitability over other stakeholder concerns.

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Managers who believe that business decisions are not subject to moral constraints tend to utilize the


A) immoral management model.
B) moral management model.
C) intentional amoral management model.
D) unintentional amoral management model.

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An NBES Survey concluded that ethical misconduct


A) whistle-blowing had decreased.
B) In pressure to cut corners had increased.
C) at work was down slightly
D) was observed more on the job.

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A December 2015 Gallop poll revealed that only 17% of the public thought that business executives had high or very high ethics.

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The ethics test approach is more


A) descriptive.
B) normative.
C) practical.
D) motivational.

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Amoral management relies primarily on a compliance strategy that focuses on obedience to the law.

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An element of moral judgment is all the following except


A) moral imagination
B) religious morality
C) moral identification and ordering
D) sense of moral obligation

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Managers who simply fail to consider moral questions when making business decisions use the


A) immoral management model.
B) moral management model.
C) intentional amoral management model.
D) unintentional amoral management model.

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tilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it. -Using the ethics question "what ought to be?" consider this hypothetical about a corporate planning seminar. At the seminar, a speaker tells the participants that presidents of large corporations should begin their planning processes with a vision of society, not with where they want their firms to be in 5 or 10 years. Evaluate this advice in light of what you have learned about business ethics.

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Students may have difficulty with this h...

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The magnitude of the current ethics problem is seen to be caused by


A) rising social expectations.
B) small increases, declines, and stability in actual business ethics.
C) both rising social expectations and small increases, declines, and stability in actual business ethics.
D) Ethics is not currently a problem.

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