Exam 2 Fall 2024 Chapters 4 Thru 7 PDF

Chapter 4 (11 questions) 1. Transportation fuels made from biomass materials including corn-based ethanol, biodiesel, green diesel, and biogas is called a biofuel.. b carbon dioxide.. c. entropy. d greenwashing.. 2. Greenwashing is a a gas that contributes to the greenhouse ef...

Chapter 4 (11 questions) 1. Transportation fuels made from biomass materials including corn-based ethanol, biodiesel, green diesel, and biogas is called a biofuel.. b carbon dioxide.. c. entropy. d greenwashing.. 2. Greenwashing is a a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect.. b information disseminated by a company so as to prevent an environmentally responsible. public image. c. the inability of humans and nature to restore environmental conditions to a previous state. d a product that is composed, in whole or in part, of biological products or renewable. agricultural or forestry materials. 3. One of the most prime examples of the use of the circular economy and arguably one of the most environmentally focused companies in the world is a Apple.. b Tesla.. c. Patagonia. d Coca-Cola.. 4. The volume and intensity of use that can be sustained in a particular place and time is called a carrying capacity.. b load factor.. c. sustainability.  d life threshold.. 5. Air pollution leads to all of the following except a deforestation. b acid rain.. c. global warming. d smog.. 6. Which of the following provides the largest stores of carbon on land? a lakes. b trees. c. homes d roads. 7. A tax on individual business units within the company based on energy usage that goes into a common fund that invests in environmental sustainability projects is called a fracking.. b carbon footprint.. c. carbon pricing. d bio tax.. 8. “Wicked” environmental problems include a smog..  b toxic waste.. c. acid rain. d All of these answer choices are correct.. 9. The purpose of Superfund legislation was to a identify toxic waste sites.. b eliminate dumping of toxic wastes.. c. clean up hazardous waste dumps and spills. d prevent land degradation.. 10. One approach to resolving air pollution problems, intended to reduce a particular pollutant over an entire industrial region by treating all emission sources as if they were under one bubble is called a emissions trading.. b blanket controls.. c. comprehensive emissions regulation. d the clean air provision.. 11. Large corporations view NGO partners as a short-term partners.. b useless resources.. c. influential organizations. d the uninvited.. Chapter 5 (10 questions) 12. The area of ethics that is concerned with supplying and justifying a coherent moral system of thinking and judging is called a normative ethics.. b descriptive ethics.. c. business ethics. d virtue ethics.. 13. At the macro level, big business is being questioned for its a ethical challenges.. b legitimacy.. c. individual activities. d managerial relationships.. 14. There is no doubt that the media are a ignoring ethical violations in their own industry.. b reporting ethical problems more frequently and fervently.. c. defending the right of business to be conducted amorally. d reporting breaches of ethics in politics more than they are reporting business ethics. violations. 15. The magnitude of the current ethics problem is seen to be caused by a rising societal 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.. 16. Which of the following is not one of the major approaches to thinking about business ethics? a conventional approach. b rights and duties approach. c. principles approach d ethical tests approach. 17. Which of the following is not an element of making ethical judgments? a observation of the decision or action. b comparison of the decision or action to prevailing norms of acceptability. c. recognition that value judgments are made regarding the decision or action and the prevailing norms of acceptability d awareness of the moral implications of a situation. 18. 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.. 19. The model of ethical management in which managers fail to take morality into account when making decisions is a immoral management.. b moral management.. c. semi-moral management. d amoral management.. 20. The individual hypothesis regarding ethical management models is a the three models approximate a normal, bell-shaped curve.. b that individual managers utilize all three of the models at different times and situations.. c. that individual managers emphasize one of the three models over the others. d that individual managers attempt to match the model they use to the particular situation.. 21. Moral imagination is a imagining the best possible outcome.. b being able to see economic and moral relationships.. c. the ability to see the relevance or nonrelevance of issues. d deciding which course of action to adopt.. Chapter 6 (10 questions) 22. Ethical issues at the organizational level a represent conflicts between two or more companies.. b display conflicts between a person’s role as family member and employee.. c. are generally more difficult to solve than issues at the personal level. d confront people in their roles as managers or employees.. 23. Ethical issues at the industry level a are usually handled by industry trade associations.. b are typically resolved through the legal system.. c. can also be related to a specific profession.  d can usually be rectified by individual managers.. 24. Decisions about ethical situations often present a(n) a conflict of interest.. b financial dilemma.. c. unresolvable problem. d legal problem.. 25. Teleological theories focus on a duties.. b rights.. c. consequences. d virtues.. 26. The ethics of care may help managers utilize a deontological principles.. b the stakeholder perspective.. c. utilitarianism. d the principle of rights.. 27. One of the most powerful ethical tests is the test of a one’s best self.. b making something public..  c. ventilation. d the purified idea.. 28. The pressure to compromise one’s personal ethical standards is felt most by a board members.. b senior managers.. c. middle managers. d lower-level managers.. 29. The most important factor in ethical leadership is a what leaders talk about.. b the code of ethics.. c. what leaders do. d discipline of ethics violators.. 30. An ethics screen is a a set of select standards against which the proposed action is compared.. b a set of financial criteria which must be met before the proposed action is evaluated ethically.. c. a set of investment criteria used by ethical investors. d a set of ethical standards against which job candidates are evaluated.. 31. ____ refers to a quality, characteristic, or state in which activities, processes, practices, and decisions in companies become open or visible to the outside world. a Opacity.  b Corporate Transparency. c. Deontological d Utilitarianism. Chapter 7 (9 questions) 32. The expanded global marketplace has also been referred to as the a moral free space.. b hypercompetitive economy.. c. transnational economy. d multinational competitive sphere.. 33. Economic integration of many formerly national economies into one worldwide economy is called a globalization.. b world-system theory.. c. capitalization. d material diversification.. 34. The Alien Tort Claims Act applies to a actions that occur on foreign soil.. b actions that occur on U.S. soil.. c. actions that occur in the host country where a U.S. firm is based. d actions that occur in a foreign country where a foreign firm is based.. 35. U.S.-based MNCs are increasingly interested in cases brought under the Alien Tort Claims Act because  a they could allow the firm to recoup some costs of incorporating overseas.. b they could allow the firm to sue foreign firms on a reciprocal basis.. c. they provide an insight in the customs of the host country. d they are increasingly being named as defendants in tort cases for doing business in countries. with repressive governments. 36. The FCPA differentiates between a domestic and international disputes.. b land ownership and building rental.. c. bribes and grease payments. d entry fees and corporate filing fees.. 37. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act a governs the operations of foreign MNCs in the United States.. b makes it illegal to make any type of payment to a foreign citizen for the purpose of doing. business. c. makes it illegal for the representative of an American corporation to offer or pay officials of foreign governments for the purpose of getting or maintaining business. d makes it illegal for American government officials to accept bribes from foreign nationals.. 38. Arguments in favor of bribery include a it’s necessary for profit.. b nobody does it.. c. they are forms of wages. d they are not expected.. 39. The position that advocates that an MNC follow the host country's ethical standards is called  a ethical relativism.. b ethical egoism.. c. ethical imperialism. d ethical hegemony.. 40. The ethics and global strategy plan for improving global business ethics has as its central idea a placing ethics ahead of profits as the number one priority.. b focusing on human rights rather than profits.. c. employing only hypernorms for the MNC’s ethical standards. d utilizing ethical standards as significant inputs into top-level strategy formulation and. implementation.