Business Ethics Quiz
MHR 452 – Quiz No. 1
TRUE/FALSE
1. In business and elsewhere, an action can be legal and morally wrong.
TRUE
2. For philosophers, the important question is not how we come to have the particular moral principles we have, but whether we can justify them.
TRUE
3.
3. Organizational norms always and inevitably lead to groupthink. FALSE
4. Enron executives acted wrongly simply because they broke the law.
FALSE
5.
5. If you do the right thing only because you think you will profit from it, then you are truly motivated by moral concerns.
FALSE
6.
6. Ethical relativism is the theory that what is right is determined by what a culture or society says is right.
TRUE
7. If your conduct is legal, it will also be moral.
FALSE
8. An organization is a group of people working together to achieve a common purpose.
TRUE
9. Moral standards concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.
TRUE
10. Rules of etiquette are always moral rules.
FALSE
11. An individual does not have to follow the code of one's profession.
FALSE
12. Bystander apathy appears to result in part from diffusion of responsibility.
TRUE
13. Most people don't distinguish between a person's "morals" and his or her "ethics."
TRUE
14. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes right and wrong, or good and bad, human conduct in a business context.
TRUE
15. "Etiquette" designates a special realm of morality.
FALSE
16. There are four basic kinds of law: statutes, regulations, common law, and constitutional law. TRUE
17. In theory and practice, law codifies customs, ideals, beliefs, and a society's moral values.
TRUE
18. According to divine command theory, if something is wrong, then the only reason it is wrong is that God commands us not to do it.
TRUE
19. Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who raised us as children.
TRUE
20. In a broad sense morality is the moral code of an
TRUE/FALSE
1. In business and elsewhere, an action can be legal and morally wrong.
TRUE
2. For philosophers, the important question is not how we come to have the particular moral principles we have, but whether we can justify them.
TRUE
3.
3. Organizational norms always and inevitably lead to groupthink. FALSE
4. Enron executives acted wrongly simply because they broke the law.
FALSE
5.
5. If you do the right thing only because you think you will profit from it, then you are truly motivated by moral concerns.
FALSE
6.
6. Ethical relativism is the theory that what is right is determined by what a culture or society says is right.
TRUE
7. If your conduct is legal, it will also be moral.
FALSE
8. An organization is a group of people working together to achieve a common purpose.
TRUE
9. Moral standards concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.
TRUE
10. Rules of etiquette are always moral rules.
FALSE
11. An individual does not have to follow the code of one's profession.
FALSE
12. Bystander apathy appears to result in part from diffusion of responsibility.
TRUE
13. Most people don't distinguish between a person's "morals" and his or her "ethics."
TRUE
14. Business ethics is the study of what constitutes right and wrong, or good and bad, human conduct in a business context.
TRUE
15. "Etiquette" designates a special realm of morality.
FALSE
16. There are four basic kinds of law: statutes, regulations, common law, and constitutional law. TRUE
17. In theory and practice, law codifies customs, ideals, beliefs, and a society's moral values.
TRUE
18. According to divine command theory, if something is wrong, then the only reason it is wrong is that God commands us not to do it.
TRUE
19. Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who raised us as children.
TRUE
20. In a broad sense morality is the moral code of an