ethics 1

The Department of Justice established sentencing guidelines that suggest more
____ treatment for convicted executives if their companies have ethics programs.

One characteristic of an organization that has a successful ethics program is that ____.

A set of beliefs about right and wrong behavior within a society is called ____.

____ hired private investigators to identify members of its board of directors who were responsible for leaking confidential company information to the press.

While nearly half of all employees surveyed saw some form of ethical misconduct in 2007, less than ____ of those employees reported the misconduct to management.

In a for-profit organization, it is the primary objective of the ____ to oversee the organization’s business activities and management for the benefit of shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

An approach to ethical decision making that states you should choose the action or policy that has the best overall consequences for all people who are directly or indirectly affected is the ____ approach.

Someone who stands to gain or lose, depending on how a situation is resolved is called a(n) ____.

____ is a likely cause of employees feeling “No one will ever know the difference, and if they do, so what?

A judge found ____ guilty of not providing timely on-site technical support that customers were entitled to and, as a result, lost its place as the world’s largest computer manufacturer.

In a(n) ____, an organization reviews how well it is meeting its ethical and social responsibility goals, and communications its new goals for the upcoming year.

In 2007, ____ of all software in circulation worldwide was pirated.

The step of the five-step decision process during which those who will be affected by the decision are identified is the ____ step.

Arthur Andersen, once a major international accounting firm, was indicted for obstruction of justice, lost its auditing license, and eventually closed its U.S. offices based on the actions of a few employees even though they were performing in a manner contrary to corporate policy and their employer’s directions. This is an example of the principle called respondeat superior or ____.

____ had one of the highest software piracy rates in 2007.

The step in the five-step decision-making process during which the decision maker(s) consider laws, guidelines, policies, and principles that might apply to the decision is the ____ step.

Part of developing a good problem statement includes ____.

Companies that develop and maintain strong employee relations ____.

____ is a system of rules that tells us what we can and cannot do.

Habits that incline people to do what is acceptable are called ____.

____ describes standards or codes of behavior expected of an individual by a group (nation, organization, profession) to which an individual belongs.

Ethical conduct criteria that could be used in an employee’s performance evaluation includes ____.

An approach to ethical decision making that is based on a vision of society as a community whose members work together to achieve a common set of values and goals is the ____ approach.

Each society forms a set of rules that establishes the boundaries of generally
accepted behavior. These rules are often expressed in statements about how people should behave, and they fit together to form the ____ by which a society lives.

A rapid increase in the appointment of corporate ethics officers typically follows ____.