Ethics mcq

Ethics mcq

Question

71.) If an employee receives formal notification that the company will monitor all e-mail and Web activity, and that notification makes clear that his/her continued employment with the company depends on the employee's agreement to abide by that monitoring, then the employee has given thick consent.

TRUE

FALSE

72.) When jobs are plentiful and an employee would have no difficulty finding another position, then the consent given to the monitoring policy is thin consent.

TRUE

FALSE

73.) Though employees may resent the availability of technology that allows employers to monitor every key stroke on their computers, it is often the documents written on their machines that do the most harm.

TRUE

FALSE

74.) Parties charged with vicarious liability are generally in a supervisory role over the person or parties personally responsible for the injury or damage.

TRUE

FALSE

75.) Implied liability is a legal concept that a party may be held responsible for injury or damage, even if that party was not actively involved in the incident.

TRUE

FALSE

76.) Cyber-liability applies to the existing legal concept of liability to a new world—computers.

TRUE

FALSE

77.) There are many parallels between George Orwell's novel, 1984, and the current debate over the right to privacy in the workplace.

TRUE

FALSE

78.) The liability argument and the recent availability of capable technology may be driving this move towards an Orwellian work environment.

TRUE

FALSE

79.) "Thou shalt not use a computer to monitor employees" is one of the ten commandments of computer ethics.

TRUE

FALSE

80.) "Contribute to the host country's development" and "Respect the human rights of your employees" are two of the guidelines for organizations offered by Richard DeGeorge.

TRUE

FALSE

81.) Richard DeGeorge's guidelines present something of an ethical ideal that reveal some of the most severe transgressions which have brought negative attention to the ethical behavior of MNCs.

TRUE

FALSE

82.) In the pursuit of profit and continued expansion, MNCs have been guilty of bribery, pollution, false advertising, and questionable product quality.

TRUE

FALSE

83.) At this time, only a handful of global companies are large enough to have a dramatic impact on trade levels just with their own internal transactions.

TRUE

FALSE

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84.) Enforcing ethical behavior, once it crosses national boundaries, becomes extremely difficult.

TRUE

FALSE

85.) Enforcing a global ethical standard would require the United Nations to set acceptable standards of behavior and appropriate consequences for failing to abide by those standards.

TRUE

FALSE

86.) In 1999 the UN Global Compact became operational.

TRUE

FALSE

87.) The UN Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative endorsing 10 key principles that focus on four key areas of concern: the environment, anticorruption, the welfare of workers around the world, and global human rights.

TRUE

FALSE

88.) The UN Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative endorsing 12 key principles that focus on five key areas of concern.

TRUE

FALSE

89.) The Global Compact is a regulatory instrument, which is relied upon to police, enforce, and measure the behavior or actions of companies.

TRUE

FALSE

90.) Global Citizenship represents a commitment to promote good corporate citizenship, with a focus on four key areas.

TRUE

FALSE

91.) An ethics policy commits a company to doing the right thing for all of its stakeholders; so a company must share that message with all of its stakeholders.

TRUE

FALSE

92.) In order to build a reputation of trust and commitment to customers, a company should seldom share the message of doing the right thing for all of its stakeholders with some of its stakeholders outside the company.

TRUE

FALSE

93.) Any organization's commitment to ethical performance must be watched constantly

TRUE

FALSE

94.) The continued growth of technology will present new situations for ethical dilemmas.

TRUE

FALSE

95.) Typically, it is difficult for the code of ethics to become taken for granted, so other business issues normally do not to take priority over the code.

TRUE

FALSE

96.) Smaller companies need to include their code of ethics as part of any strategic planning exercise to make sure it is as up to date as possible.

TRUE

FALSE

97.) Many organizations have been prompted to introduce or modify their code of ethics after witnessing other CEOs public embarrassment.

TRUE

FALSE

98.) A transparent organization tends to avoid open and honest communication with all stakeholders.

TRUE

FALSE

99.) True ethical policies are proactive when the company develops a clear sense of what it stands for as an ethical organization, the extent of the actions it will take to get there, and what ethics means to that company and its stakeholders.

TRUE

FALSE

100.) The student of ethics who has gotten this far deserves much praise!

TRUE

FALSE