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BUS323 Business Ethics

Module 3 Quiz  

Question 1According to the ACFE video, companies are only as ethical as their employees, and employees take their ethics cues from

  Management

  A cue card

  Aristotle

  Criminals

Question 2Mary Gilbert, in the GVV pillar 2 video, says that if we look back at when we did voice our values, we can make a list of the factors that made it easier for us to do so, what she calls the

  Enablers

  Discourages

  Naughty list

  Grocery list

Question 3According to the ACFE video, it is important to know that there is a difference between ethics and _____.  Just because actions are “acceptable” does not mean that the actions are ethical.

  The law

  A big raise

  Filing a complaint

  Winning

Question 4GVV is about recognizing that we all make the choice to act or not act on our _______ every day.

  Hunch

  Stage

  Idea

  Values

Question 5The ACFE video focuses on fraud examiners, but the examples are applicable to anyone who is accountable to management for the correct actions of subordinates.  One thing it is always important to avoid as a person responsible for investigating wrong doing is

  Getting information that you should not have access to

  Driving an ugly car

  Getting your hair cut weekly

  Skipping lunch

Question 6In the Jain article, one idea to cut down on unethical behavior in competitive evaluation organizations is to conduct pre-mortems.  The goal of this process is to:

  Think about positive and negative consequences before making crucial, ethically charged decisions

  Dissect a frog

  Consider the financial stake of every activity

  Determine who to gang up on in the competitive evaluations

 Question 7According to the ACFE video, you rarely see headlines or read about:

  Politics

  Celebrities

  Sales

  Companies who play by the rules and act ethically

 Question 8In the workplace, “rank-and yank” methods of comparison are regularly used to judge performance.  An example of “rank-and-yank,” is:

  Vitality curve

  Forced rankings

  Stacking systems

  All of the above

 Question 9According to the ACFE video, if you have a leadership team that is more focused on the end than on the means, then

  People will start to cut corners when it comes to ethical decision making

  People will protest management

  People will complain bitterly on social media

  Management will get a big payout

Question 10In the Jain article, the author found that when people took a moment to think and write down possible consequences of their decisions, that they were less willing:

  To take a decrease in pay

  To take a vacation

  To take a new job

  To act unethically